Charette Log (Marc's class, but pretty much the same text as Gabrielle and Kim)

Here's a guide/timeline for the components that you'll need to include in your Project Log, please let us know if anything requires more description/explanation. Also, you may want to print this list out, or better yet, use it on the blog (here's where I wish this was a wiki), possibly adding comments?


Cornish Community Charrette Project Log

Project Title:

Group Members:

W 9/26
General goals:
1) understand presentation goals and possibilities,
2) understand case-book components,
3) decide on specific shape of project,
4) decide on specific research tasks needed thru 10/3,
5) decide on tasks to complete before 9/28,
6) meet in class today to schedule appointments for this Friday, 9/28 in Cornish Library MCC

Specific goals and group whereabouts:


F 9/28
General goals:
1) conduct interviews if needed,
2) gather research materials from the library or visit Seattle Public Library if needed,
3) site project location if needed,
4) begin physical design of project if needed,
5) decide on tasks to complete before 10/1,
5) meet with Marc for 15 minutes today in group

Specific goals and group whereabouts:


M 10/1
General goals:
1) write project description and rationale, using and revising language from earlier descriptions,
2) begin designing presentation materials,
3) decide on specific tasks to complete before 10/3

Specific goals and whereabouts:


W 10/3
General goals:
1) finish designing presentation materials,
2) define presentation roles and practice presentation,
3) decide on specific tasks to complete for 10/5

Specific goals and whereabouts:

F 10/5
Charrette presentations. Meet at MCC Room 603 Location to be confirmed.

Presentation checklist (10/5):
O Poster or other large-scale visual aid that contains 1) project title, 2) maps, diagrams, photos or other images that show project scope and why it is needed; 3) a brief description of project and why it is needed.

O Brochure, hand-out or other small-scale visual aid with these same components.

O Group symbolic map, if it is not included on one or the other of the visual aids.

O 1-2 page typed, group-authored project description (what it is) and rationale (why it is needed), along with a bibliography of sources consulted or references to related projects. Bibliographic citations should follow an MLA-format, with information and examples available on the Cornish Library website here

Case-book checklist (10/8):
O A copy of your group’s hot sheet.
O A copy of your group’s project description and rationale.
O A copy of your group symbolic map and the individual maps you created on 9/21.
O Copies of images, diagrams etc. from your group’s poster or brochure.
O Your MCC and Kerry accounts, and your initial write-up of the project from 9/17-24.
O A 2-3 page, typed, double-spaced reflection on the charrette process and your group’s project.

And, although it may be redundant after everything you produce, I'd like to also look at 10/8 as an in-class debriefing, framing the discussion as a look at what was successful with the charette as well as what difficulties you encountered during the process.