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Design charrette

200 minutes 10 slides, 3 livepro Runs with Pro

A half-day charrette: stakeholders add needs on a live board, mixed teams sketch concepts, and everyone votes on phones before the design team commits.

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Design charrette

Today we design it together, in short loops, out loud.

Title

In short

A charrette is an intensive, collaborative design workshop where designers and stakeholders work on a project together in short loops. This kit runs a half-day charrette: needs and worries collected on a live board, mixed teams sketching concepts, a phone vote and a clear direction with next steps.
Time
3 hours 20 minutes
People
12 to 60
Includes
Agenda, 10 slides, board, follow-up
Plan
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Updated October 4, 2026

What's in the kit

  1. 1Design charrette
  2. 2Charrette is French for cart. In 19th-century Paris, architecture students worked on their drawings right up to the moment the cart came to collect them.
  3. 3Today
  4. 4The constraints, up front
  5. 5How we work today
  6. 6One word for what this place should feel like live
  7. 7Weigh each concept
  8. 8How well does the favorite concept meet the brief? live
  9. 9What must the design team not lose as it develops this? live
  10. 10Thank you for designing with us

The agenda

By the end of this meeting, stakeholders have shaped and voted on concepts, and the design team leaves with a direction and its open questions.

200 min · 10 blocks, drawn to scale Fits exactly
  1. Who's here and what you care about, 10 minutes 10
  2. The brief, the site and the constraints, 20 minutes 20
  3. Needs, ideas and worries by theme, 25 minutes 25
  4. Break, 10 minutes 10
  5. Mixed teams sketch concepts, 55 minutesDiscuss 55
  6. Pin-up: each team presents its concept, 25 minutes 25
  7. Stakeholder vote on concepts, 10 minutes 10
  8. Why the favorite works, and what to borrow from the others, 20 minutes 20
  9. Direction, open questions and the next feedback loop, 15 minutes 15
  10. What happens next, and when you'll see it, 10 minutes 10
050100150200 min
  1. +0′Who's here and what you care aboutOne word for how this place should feel10 minCheck-in
  2. +10′The brief, the site and the constraintsTip: Show the real constraints now: budget, codes, site limits. Surprises later lose trust.20 minInfo
  3. +30′Needs, ideas and worries by themeAdd a need, an idea or a worry to the right themeTip: Everyone writes, including the quietest neighbor and the newest planner. Dot-vote at the end.25 minBrainstorm
  4. +55′Break10 minBreak
  5. +65′Mixed teams sketch conceptsTip: Three or four teams, each with a designer and a mix of stakeholders. Everyone draws. Trace paper, markers, the site plan.55 minDiscuss
  6. +120′Pin-up: each team presents its conceptTip: Five minutes each, then two questions. Name what each concept does best.25 minInfo
  7. +145′Stakeholder vote on conceptsWhich concept should the design team develop?10 minVote
  8. +155′Why the favorite works, and what to borrow from the others20 minDiscuss
  9. +175′Direction, open questions and the next feedback loop15 minDecide
  10. +190′What happens next, and when you'll see it10 minWrap-up

The board

Getting there and around
Entrances, parking, paths, accessibility
Spaces and uses
What happens here, and where
Look and feel
Light, materials, character, green space
Worries
Noise, cost, safety, disruption

The follow-up email

Subject

Design charrette: the direction we chose together

Thank you for designing with us today.

What you told us mattered most (top-voted on the board):
1. 
2. 
3. 

The concepts and the vote: see the summary below.

Direction the design team will develop: 

What we're borrowing from the other concepts: 

Open questions we need to answer:
- 

Next feedback session: 
Where to see the drawings:

How to run it

  1. 1Invite the people who will use, run, pay for and live next to the project, and mix them in every sketching team.
  2. 2Put the real constraints on screen early: budget, codes, site limits and dates.
  3. 3Collect needs, ideas and worries on the board from phones, then dot-vote so the sketching teams know what matters.
  4. 4Give each team a designer, the site plan, trace paper and 55 minutes. Pin up, then vote on phones.
  5. 5Close with the direction and the date of the next feedback loop. A charrette works when people see their input in the next round.

Questions people ask

What is a design charrette?
A focused, hands-on workshop where architects, planners and the people affected by a project design it together, testing ideas in quick rounds of sketching and feedback.
Where does the word charrette come from?
It's French for cart. Architecture students at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris kept working on their drawings until a cart came round to collect them.
How long is a charrette?
It varies. A focused building charrette can be a half or full day, while planning charrettes for neighborhoods often run over several days with feedback loops in between.

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  • A timer for every block on the shared screen
  • Results, decisions and actions in the summary
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