One way to mitigate charrette costs is to utilize volunteer design professionals, university professors, and students as part of the charrette design team. Using volunteers can be very positive and cost-effective, but in order to be most useful the volunteers need to be carefully recruited and handled. Often, volunteers can require a considerable amount of […]

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As you know, the charrette studio is open to the public virtually any time the design team is working. The great overall advantage is that this affords the maximum number of opportunities for people to participate according to their personal schedules and time constraints. It also allows the design team to create and foster relationships […]

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Proper charrette scheduling is a very important component of the charrette planning process. For example, the more complicated a project, the longer the charrette needs to be. Therefore, charrettes that last less than seven days should only be used for simple, low-controversy projects. 
NCI has developed the following list of basic rules of thumb for charrette […]

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