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Product Modalities
Published in Christopher Marsh, Building Services Procurement, 2003
The advantages of a charette include:inexpensiveconsidered as best way of briefing whole design teamcarried out early in process where major cost influences are decidedcarried out in short period of timecuts out and crosses organisational, political and professional boundaries.
Sustainability
Published in Terry Jacobs, Andrew A. Signore, Good Design Practices for GMP Pharmaceutical Facilities, 2016
Product design plays an important part in sustainability in the pharmaceutical industry. Although the product is paramount, a sustainable design approach and an integrated design process are recommended. An integrated design starts with a design charrette, where everyone involved with the product is invited. The charrette provides an opportunity for all stakeholders to highlight the issues that are important to their role in the life of the product. This process illustrates the different aspects of the product to all parties involved; it eliminates the silos in which groups can sometimes operate. This integrated process improves the production of the product by reducing waste, energy, and especially costs.
Environmental Masterplanning
Published in Dejan Mumovic, Mat Santamouris, A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering, 2018
The benefit is that this process can strengthen the relationship between the design and development team and local community and stakeholders. It is a challenging process of discourse; within the charrette environment, development clients are faced with community voices, designers with technical experts, and technical experts with creative and social challenges. The charrette offers a process by which to balance the technical, social and aesthetics of the development process. It can strengthen the approach to achieving more realistic and a higher degree of environmental, social and economic sustainability.
Accessibility and participatory design: time, power, and facilitation
Published in CoDesign, 2023
Lindsay Stephens, Hilda Smith, Iris Epstein, Melanie Baljko, Ian Mcintosh, Nastaran Dadashi, Devika Narayani Prakash
A design charrette (DC) is a type of workshop in which team members, typically end users, stakeholders, and designers, collaborate to develop solutions to a narrowly scoped problem. It is one form of co-design, a broader approach in which users collaborate to design products and processes. Design charettes are characterised by their intensive, condensed format (usually lasting four to seven days), which brings a specialised design team together with diverse stakeholders (Carlson et al. 2020; Kennedy 2017); external designers typically facilitate a series of staged, interactive activities that allow participants to share ideas and contribute to a solution (Carlson et al. 2020; Howard and Somerville 2014). ‘The intention of a charrette is to advance feasible but creative solutions for real clients and users’ (Howard and Somerville 2014 p. 48, cited as Kelbaugh 1997 in Mara 2006 p. 200). DCs used in the private sector have been shown to yield results quickly (Gregory 2018), increase participatory opportunities in decision-making, and may help overcome disciplinary and academic-community divides (Sutton and Kemp 2006). However, like any method, they can benefit from critical reflection, below we identify some of the themes emerging in the critical discussion of DCs.
The role of residential suburbs in the knowledge economy: insights from a design charrette into nomadic and remote work practices
Published in Journal of Urban Design, 2021
Matthew Zenkteler, Marcus Foth, Gregory Hearn
A design charrette is a collaborative design and planning workshop, usually held on-site and inclusive of all affected stakeholders (Lennertz and Lutzenisher 2006). This particular workshop method was chosen because of its several advantages as outlined by Roggema (2014), including the ability to use technical data in a creative way, develop design ideas based on uncertainty and unpredictability, speculate about future changes and ways of living and work ‘bottom-up’, relying on the local experience and knowledge of the participants. The intent was to gather community members, entrepreneurs and local government planners in an attempt to create a mutual understanding and ownership between all participants. Preparation for the design charrette was based on four rules formulated by Roggema (2014): In the charrette, everyone is a designer; the design process is integrative and contains a variety of possible solutions.Start with a blank sheet. Participants are here to agree on a shared vision of the future, without any preconceived ideas.Provide just enough information. Too much information causes decision paralysis and too little produces bad proposals.All drawings produced during the charrette embody the consensus as experienced and achieved by the charrette team. They form a well-understood agreement, or contract, in images amongst the group.