# How to run a Design Charrette 1. Gather people in a room. 2. Give everyone a few sheets of plain paper and a pen. We can all agree that Sharpies make everyone more creative, but any felt-tip pen will do. 3. Write down a goal or a design challenge on the whiteboard. 4. Communicate the charrette process, which is: - Each person sketches his or her own ideas for 5 minutes. Each has just 5 minutes; then all pens down. This is supposed to be fast. People may sketch one or several ideas, until they run out of paper, ink, or inspiration. - Each person works alone. No talking once sketching begins. - When the 5 minutes are up, each person gets 2 minutes (and no more than 2 minutes) to show his or her ideas and explain the reasoning behind them. - The group may then ask questions of each sketcher, spending one more minute on each person. 5. The person running the meeting has to keep time and be diligent about it. Otherwise these meetings can go forever, and in the future people won’t want to come. 6. At the end of the charrette, the designer collects the papers and uses the ideas generated to help derive a design. [[Andy Van Deventer]] used this, and we all met at the asian food court by that Dim sum place near Chamblee. We used this to develop the bones of [[Cult Show]]. This is helpful for developing interesting ideas for Theatre. # References https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UqvRa_-HP7wB5X6lnTwtitUvuHXf8ohoDO4_KD7rWL8/edit