I'm also familiar with charettes from architectural clients. It is indeed a collaborative process using a team of design experts. From my experience, it tends to be a top-down process that allows the public to contribute to a certain extent but not self-organized in the way we know OS to be.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:58 AM, David Osborne <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm familiar with charettes from architectural clients I have and believe > this is an approach architecte's use. From what I understand they will > establish a set time frame - An afternoon for example - give the design > challenge and then have individuals or teams all working on designs. They > then collect everyone's designs and then share to look at the various > approaches to inform the eventual design. the term itself may be from the > architectural field. > > David > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Eva P Svensson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi all wise people! >> Anyone having experience from a method called charrette? When I looked it >> up on Wikipedia it says this: >> >> "A *charrette* is a method of organizing thoughts from experts and the >> users into a structured medium that is unrestricted and conducive to the >> creativity and the development of myriad scenarios. >> >> The word *charrette* may refer to any collaborative session in which a >> group of designers <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designers> drafts a >> solution to a design problem. While the structure of a charrette varies, >> depending on the design problem and the individuals in the group, >> charrettes often take place in multiple sessions in which the group divides >> into sub-groups. Each sub-group then presents its work to the full group as >> material for future dialogue <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue>. >> Such charrettes serve as a way of quickly generating a design solution >> while integrating the aptitudes and interests of a diverse group of people. >> Compare this term with workshop <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workshop> >> ." >> >> To me it sound very very much like an Open Space meeting! Do you know the >> difference? Any experiences, thoughts? >> >> Hugs from a winter-like Sweden >> >> :o) >> >> Eva >> Skickat från min iPhone >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -- MakingIdeasVisible.com [email protected] 770 329 4213 <https://www.facebook.com/MakingIdeasVisible><http://twitter.com/#%21/juliestuart><http://www.linkedin.com/in/juliestuart>
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