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Design Charrettes
Design Charrettes
A Charrette is a collaborative session, or short series of intense workshops, in which a group of designers drafts a solution to a design problem, in partnership with all stakeholders. A charrette is like a kick-off where many considerations must be factored into a design project scope before it gets underway. Everyone brings their unique perspective to the problem and the designers are there to facilitate consensus.
Charrettes are used extensively in urban planning, where diverse communities are involved. Here are some other everyday examples of how a project manager could use a charrette:
A wedding planner holds a family Zoom meeting to design a ceremony event
A Tech Start-up company plans a leadership retreat
A basketball team plans a fundraiser for a local community centre
Below are 9 examples of Design Charrett's in action. Followed by some videos about how to run a Charrette. These examples are from a variety of different industries but all show what this experience could be like and how it helped them to meet their goals. Work with your classmates or think on your own to develop a list of 5 - 10 Tips for running a good Charrette from what you hear or see in the videos. Record your list in your Student Workbook.
Art + Design Charrett, Fall 2021
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North Shore Neighbourhood Plan
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Learning Landscape Labs Design Charrettes
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This video gives an example of an Urban Design Charrett and discusses what it is and why it is implemented
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Participants complete a Design Charrette to think of ideas to use the Ontario Place Land
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Example of a Design Charrette to help think of ideas for a new primary school featuring WRA Architects/Nrock ISD Primary School
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This video takes you on a tour of the Charrette designing with The DPZ - East Fraserlands/River District Vancouver
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This video demonstrates a Design Charrette used to try and address sustainability in business in a creative way
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This is a design Charrette with students from collage developing ideas for a project. This is the Harold L. Adams Interdisciplinary Charrette
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Running a Charrette
Running a Charrette
Charrette's are tools that Project Managers could use to help get things rolling on a project. This could be used at various times in the Project Cycle or in development of your Project charter. This strategy allows participants and stakeholders to come together to develop possible outcomes that can then be reviewed/implemented.
Below are 4 videos showing how to make something like this happen.
This is an instructional video of How tor Run a Charrette
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This is a nexample of how to run a MakerSpace Charrette from UChicago
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Interdisciplinary Charrette for Undergraduates Texas A&M examples and instructions
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Demonstrating an Interdisciplinary Design Charrette at University of Georgia
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Interested in More? Check out NCI
Interested in More? Check out NCI
The National Charrette Institute (NCI) in Michigan is the leading international organization teaching folks how to run charrettes. They have a huge library of online free digital resources you can download, and they are awesome!
Check out their website here
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