an intensive, multiparty workshop that brings people from different disciplines and backgrounds together to explore, generate, and collaboratively produce design options

A collaborative work session in which stakeholders and planning and design professionals draft potential solutions to a design problem, increasingly used in land use and transportation planning.

A meeting that brings together experts to develop ideas on how to improve a natural and/or cultural resource. The outputs of their efforts are maps and designs that offer solutions to such issues as p [..]

An intensive, interactive public design workshop taking place over a few days and in proximity to the site in which designers, property owners, developers, public officials, environmentalists, citizens, and other persons or groups of people work in harmony to achieve an agreeable trail or greenway project. The term is French and means "wagon.& [..]

An intensive brainstorming session traditionally used by architecture students. It now describes a collaborative process that is used with members of the public and professionals together to create a vision for large developments.

Meeting at the beginning of an integrative design process that sets the stage for cooperation and collaboration among all participants, including the design team, engineers, contractors, clients, and [..]

Increasingly popular term for describing a workshop devoted to a concerted effort to solve a problem or plan the design of something. Same meaning as Design charrette. Design charrette    

A community design exercise that involves many people.

(US) A period of intense work, especially group work, undertaken to meet a deadline. frm|charrete, fromfro|charrete; from+ fro|-ete. Sense “work to meet a deadline” probably from architecture stude [..]

A brief, intense design workshop in which community teams work with staff, local elected officials, the landowner, the developer, and all interested citizens to produce a plan that addresses community [..]

A charrette is an intensive planning session where citizens, designers and others collaborate on a vision for a development project.