Everyone is feeling it. With the new economy comes smaller budgets. Is it even possible to conduct a multiple-day charrette these days? The answer is yes, but it takes some creative resource management. Here are five strategies for keeping costs down by leveraging local resources. This approach not only cuts down on travel expenses and [...]

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At NCI, we are interested in not just how to plan and run a successful charrette but how to assure long-term project success. Visionary projects get approved and built in a timely fashion when strong leadership is combined with a collaborative team approach. On one end of the leadership spectrum you have the guru approach [...]

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There is an exciting trend occurring with charrettes for projects that link public health and community planning. The people working in public health are increasing playing a key role in neighborhood and comprehensive planning by providing important metrics linking the impacts of land and transportation planning decisions to public health. Last month NCI conducted NCI [...]

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What better cause is there for a charrette than the post-disaster period when recovery planning must be done quickly? Post-disaster work involves lots of stakeholders, each with their individual missions who must now work in concert to assist the community in their recovery and rebuilding. The NCI Charrette System™ kick-starts the rebuilding effort through a [...]

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Donna Hinde, Partner and Landscape Architect The Planning Partnership A charrette is an opportunity for participation, and not a requirement. Participation is always voluntary and we can never force people to attend. We have found that without exception, reluctance or unwillingness to attend stems from uncertainty, a lack of faith in the process or from [...]

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NCI is embarking on new research on the next generation of charrettes in the context of the new landscape of public engagement. The discussion was kicked off at this year’s Congress for the New Urbanism in Madison, with a focus on the need for new charrette approaches that responds to shrinking project budgets and the [...]

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NCI launches The Charrette Way blog NCI is excited to announce the launch of a new blog- The Charrette Way: Achieving Collaborative Mastery. For the past 10 years NCI has been primarily developing, practicing and teaching the tools and techniques for running projects using charrettes, or the NCI Charrette System. The Charrette Way will take [...]

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Charrettes for Healthcare Planning May 4, 2011, 10:00-11:30 am PDT (1:00-2:30 pm EDT) Note: after live webinar date a recording will be available free for paid participants Overview In this webinar you will learn how charrettes are being used to facilitate a holistic approach to healthcare planning that goes beyond the hospital walls to affect [...]

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Last week, Southface, an Atlanta-based environmental advocacy group, put their NCI training into practice running the Edgewood/Candler Park MARTA Transit Oriented Development (TOD) charrette. Last year, Southface and The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) staff hosted NCI for the full week of in-house charrette certificate trainings. NCI then returned to Atlanta to provide on-site coaching throughout [...]

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NCI led a 4-day charrette for the Arapahoe Square area just north of downtown Denver in January. Planning Manager, Peter Park, saw that the charrette was the right tool for this area, challenged by large expanses of parking lots, a regional thoroughfare dividing the neighborhoods, and a concentration of social service providers. In addition to [...]

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