charettes
Intensive planning sessions
Charettes are intensive, collaborative work sessions where designers, planners, or other professionals gather to develop solutions under tight deadlines.
The format originated in architecture schools, where students would work frantically as a cart (charrette in French) collected final drawings.
Modern charettes bring together stakeholders for focused bursts of creative problem-solving: The city held a three-day charette on the waterfront redevelopment.
Also spelled charrettes.
Place for making or learning
- collaborativeInvolving shared effort
- intensiveConcentrated and thorough
- deadlineTime limit for completion
- architectsBuilding design professionals
stakeholders · brainstorming · planning · session · urban · community · feedback · visioning
Comprehensive guiding strategy
- zoningSectioning areas by use
- neighborhoodResidential area nearby
- redevelopmentRebuilding an existing area
- revitalizationRestoring vigor or vitality
transit · housing · mixed-use · walkability · density · land-use · placemaking · streetscape
Force upon contact
- immersiveFully engaging the senses
- concentratedGathered or intensified
- rapidMoving with haste
- focusedDirecting attention narrowly
structured · goal-oriented · accelerated · compressed · productive · exhaustive · rigorous · creative
workshop
Place for making or learning
- collaborativeInvolving shared effort
- intensiveConcentrated and thorough
- deadlineTime limit for completion
architects · stakeholders · brainstorming · planning · session · urban · community · feedback · visioning · participatory
masterplan
Comprehensive guiding strategy
- zoningSectioning areas by use
- neighborhoodResidential area nearby
- redevelopmentRebuilding an existing area
revitalization · transit · housing · mixed-use · walkability · density · land-use · placemaking · streetscape · infrastructure
pressure
Force upon contact
- immersiveFully engaging the senses
- concentratedGathered or intensified
- rapidMoving with haste
focused · structured · goal-oriented · accelerated · compressed · productive · exhaustive · rigorous · creative · engagement