How can you reduce the learning curve for charrette participants? If you have a complex issue like affordable housing or sustainable street design you may not want to wait until the charrette to start the discussion.
Charrettes can be used for any scale of planning or design project. They have been used for projects ranging from regional planning to building design.
A NCI charrette is designed to protect the project sponsor’s position, whether the sponsor is a developer or public agency, by guarding against commandeering of the project by any one person or group.
It is important that a skilled facilitator lead meetings with all of the tools and techniques to handle difficult meetings at his or her disposal. The first task for a facilitator is to gain agreements on the meeting “set-ups.”
One way to mitigate charrette costs is to utilize volunteer design professionals, university professors, and students as part of the charrette design team.
