Course Description
Provides students with a real-world opportunity to work side by side with faculty, local decision makers, and students. The course will require students to attend three charrettes. Lectures will precede and follow each charrette. Students will learn facilitation skills, develop design guidelines, and use national standards to complete facade rehabilitations.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate students taking the charrette course will conduct
additional inventory and analysis for each charrette design
project. Additionally they will be responsible for generating
text for the final presentation and for the final report. They
will also serve as a final editorial board for the draft
reports. Undergraduate students will only be required to
generate design solutions, attend all days of the charrettes,
and fully participate in the scheduled charrettes.
Athena Title
Community Design Charrettes
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in HIPR 4680S or HIPR 6680S
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall, spring and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Skills: Students will learn the real life dynamics of community decisions and be required to apply their reasoning skills to citizen based problem identification. Presentation and team skills will be improved through the community charrette process. Values: Students will use and improve their ability to participate in the municipal planning process, local resource conservation strategies and alternative problem solving methods. Knowledge: Students will have a greater understanding of how classroom theory is applied to community scenarios. Problem solving speed and thoroughness in solutions will be improved. Improved communication confidence (both graphically and orally) will result from the charrette experience.
Topical Outline
The purpose of this course is to provide students a real world opportunity to work side by side with faculty, local decision makers and students. The course will require students to attend two charrettes between fall and spring semesters. Lectures will precede and follow each charrette experience. Students will learn facilitation skills, how to develop design guidelines and how to use national standards to complete façade rehabilitations. This course will also have a component of report production. Students will learn how to summarize charrette results and produce a professional report from their findings. Each of the charrettes will be a 2-4 day experience in a small Georgia town, coast community, or a neighborhood in an urban area. All costs will be covered and lectures will be scheduled for time that will not conflict with other classes. To register for this course see your program advisor. 1. Pre-Charrette Lectures 2. Charrette workshop Intense 2-3 day workshop Community needs assessments interviews with community groups prioritization of issues development of recommendations identifiation of neighborhood development projects implementation strategies development 3. Public Service and Outreach Office and students prepares final document. neighborhood stsrenths, challenges, and recommendations neighborhood development projects action steps potential funding sources can deliver final presentation - open to all members of the neighborhood and greater community