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General Charrette Host-town Responsibilities:
- Obtain funding
- Establish a steering committee who will be responsible
for determining the primary focus of the charrette
and handle some of the logistics
- Contact the College of the Environment and Design's
Center for Community Design and Preservation to:
· aid in identifying a preliminary set of issues
to be addressed
· choose date(s) for the charrette
- Gather information about your community including:
· Base maps
· History of and stories about the town
· Historic photos of the town in its "heyday"
(lots of them!)
- Spread the word about the charrette (Create Buzz!)
especially for the community input meeting
- Arrange meals and accommodations for the UGA group
- Sit back and watch the charrette magic…
· intense 2-3 day workshop
· community needs assessment
· interviews with community groups
· prioritization of issues
· development of recommendations
· identifications of neighborhood development
projects
· implementation strategies development
- The Charrette Connection prepares the final product
(products can vary from full reports, large-format
posters, executive summaries, Powerpoint presentations,
etc.), which are tailored to address each community's
needs.
- Community begins implementation!
Scheduling:
Due to the large time commitment and planning/implementation
effort needed to conduct a successful charrette, Public
Service and Outreach schedules each charrette well
in advance and generally spaces them out (depending
on their size) over 1-3 months.
As soon as you think your town might be interested
in a charrette, please let us know so we can begin
working with you to find out what will suit your needs
the best!
Town testimonials:
"... a tremendous round of applause, a bushel
of appreciation for all the effort and interest, with
a huge imaginary bouquet of swamp lilies surrounded
by small branches from a ti ti bush!! Please relay
our thanks to the other members of the team"
(Ty Ty, 2002)
"I cannot begin to explain the joy and excitement
when i first viewed the final product of the Unadilla
Charrette. The posters, reports, and renderings were
in my opinion the greatest and most inspiring works
i have seen since i have been involved in the downtown
project.
You and your crew of experts have hit the bull's-eye
in Unadilla. I have shown the report to many people
around town and all have ooed and awed..." (Unadilla,
2003)
How much do charrettes cost?
The fee structures
vary depending on many different factors such as: length
of visit, number of participants, distance from Athens,
services furnished by sponsor, the size of the area
on which we're focusing and the final products (i.e.
posters, detailed report, large-format drawings).
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