An intense period of time during which a great amount of energy is dedicated to solving a specific design problem or problems by a given deadline. It is the French word for "cart," and was originally used by the students at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris when, after working all night, they would load their boards onto a cart and push it from the student quarter to the school, shouting "Charette!Charrette!" to avoid collisions with pedestrians.
A workshop, often lasting several days, which involves a community in its urban planning process. Similar to a clinic or a search conference.
A Charrette is a planning session in which participants brainstorm and visualize solutions to a design issue. Charrettes provide a forum for ideas and offer the unique advantage of giving immediate feedback to designers while giving mutual authorship to the plan by all those who participate. The term "charrette" derives from the French term for "little cart" and refers to the final intense work effort expended by architects to meet a project deadline. At the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris during the 19th century, proctors circulated with little carts to collect final drawings, and students would jump on the charrette to put finishing touches on their presentations minutes before their deadlines.
A meeting that brings together experts to develop ideas on how to improve a natural and/or cultural resource. The outputs of their efforts are maps and designs that offer solutions to such issues as preservation, access and use, interpretation, development, etc. The Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance program uses this tool to create community consensus on projects. Visit their web site for more information.
An intensive design process that involves the collaboration of all project stakeholders at the beginning of a project to develop a comprehensive plan or design.
a brainstorming session in which townspeople with input from professional designers come up with a long-range plan for their community
a collaborative design process that can be used in community visioning to promote dialog, identify problems and needs, share ideas and develop innovative, sustainable solutions
a collaborative planning process that harnesses the talents and energies of all interested parties to create and support a feasible plan that represents transformative community change
a communitywide design process in which members of the public are invited to meet with designers and planners in workshop sessions to share opinions and ideas about the development of their community
a design activity in which participants are assigned a very complicated design project and are asked to complete it within a very short period of time
a design workshop whose purpose is to try out innovative ideas for the improvement of a community
a focused and collaborative brainstorming session held at the beginning of the project
a meeting to resolve a problem or issue
a moderated panel discussion followed by a question and answer session involving invited guests who have expertise in the area under discussion
an authentic collaboration by multiple parties over several days that seeks to resolve issues with detailed design
an intense interactive workshop that engages the general public by quickly learning about major issues and proposing alternative solutions to address those issues
an intense, multi-disciplinary, week-long design workshop that has several feedback loops of input from stakeholders and the wider community
an intensive architectural design session or workshop
an intensive five day-long, design based, publicly-interactive planning and design process, held in a local venue, which is intended to resolve complex, large and / or controversial projects, such as town centre revitalisation activities
an intensive planning session where citizens, designers and others collaborate on a vision for development
an intensive, short-term creative effort to solve a problem, create something, or generate ideas
an intensive workshop where nationally renowned and local design experts work in teams with faculty and graduate students to produce design solutions to difficult urban problems
a one-day-event where community members meet in small groups and work with planning professionals in a dynamic and interactive exercise in brainstorming to create a community consensus on a vision for the future
a planning tool meant to involve as many stakeholders as possible in decisions affecting the common good
a popular planning process that engages experts, community stakeholders, and the general public in an inclusive planning process
a process of discovery, unlike any conventional workshop format, and thoroughly melds the "home team" with the "visiting team" so that after the visitors have left, the "home team" can consummate the new design
a rigorous and inclusive planning process undertaken by an inter-disciplinary design team over a brief time period
a short, intense design of planning activity
a specific type of meeting designed to solve a problem or issue
a unique program where the Northern Virginia Regional Commission assists Northern Virginia localities looking at planning and development issues
A design exercise where community members, planners, architects, designers or artists work together to develop visual solutions for a planning problem or concept.
Intensive workshop designed to involve a project's stakeholders in a facilitated process to gain consensus on policy and physical elements of a development plan.
A short and intensive design process that usually involves people from different backgrounds and disciplines in order to gain an integrated and broad perspective of issues at hand. See also Integrated design.
Intensive, collaborative design workshop integrating local community views and professional opinions.