What is a design charrette?

Category: Business

A design charrette is a collaborative meeting during which members of a diverse team collaborate and sketch designs to explore and share a broad diversity of design ideas. A design charrette is an intensive workshop involving the participation of all the members. In a complex project, the group is often divided into breakout groups with each having a different problem or challenge. These break out groups sit together and brainstorm to get a solution, which is then presented to the group. The group comprises of members from various disciplines- often stakeholders of the project, design consultants, domain experts. A design charrette, in any industrial project, is a pivotal step to reach a balanced and integrated design. This forms the start point of a project and helps to achieve a buildable plan. Best practices in design charrettes usually are collected as a handbook to be used for the future.