Pendleton Community Planning Charrétté September 26, 2007

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE of PENDLETON

Community Planning Charrétté to be held September 26,2007

Who: College of Architecture and Planning, Ball State University in cooperation with the Town of Pendleton

What: This event involves 4th year Urban Planning undergraduates working with the Pendleton community to identify issues and to generate a future vision for the Pendleton community. A charrétté is a collaborative workshop where a collection of planners and designers work with the community to generate ideas about a community’s future. This is the initial and one of the most important phases of the comprehensive plan.

Originating from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the nineteenth century, the word charrette is French for "cart." Student architects would work furiously at the very last minute on their designs, literally, while in the school cart as it was wheeled through the streets of Paris on its way for submission to their professors. Today, in the fields of design, the term charrette has come to mean the same intense, collaborative session in which a group of people explores a solution to a design problem.

Where: Pendleton Fire Station, 100 South Broadway, Pendleton, Indiana

When: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 from 2:30p to 7:30p