Design Charette
Posted by Kristin Boekhoff on July 7th, 2010
Charette participants took a walk around the project site for inspiration.
The French word, “charrette” means “cart” and is often used to describe the
final, intense work effort expended by art and architecture students to meet a
project deadline. This use of the term is said to originate from the École des
Beaux Arts in Paris during the 19th century, where proctors circulated a cart,
or “charrette”, to collect final drawings while students frantically put
finishing touches on their work.
An Envisioning Charrette is an intensive brainstorming workshop that
brings people from different disciplines and backgrounds together to explore
conceptualization ideas for a particular development project in relation to a
specific site.
Mikey Leung