What is a Charrette?
May 11, 2020
A collaborative planning and design process often used in architecture, urban design, and community planning to involve residents, business owners, and other stakeholders in the design process.
The goal of a charrette is to gather input and ideas from all parties to create a plan that reflects the collective needs and vision of the community.
"2008 06 19 - 3494 - Burtonsville - Charrette"
by thisisbossi is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 
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A charette's visual components can be:
- blueprints
- renderings of plans
- information graphics of research data
- sticky note exercises to gather input
- graphic facilitation of the public meetings.
Charrettes are part of the Visual Tools Index.
Header photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash
