BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek
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Design Centers plus Television<br />
93. During the past year an interesting planning process took place in<br />
Dayton, Ohio. The project was the design of the riverbanks in the city,<br />
including parks, marinas, landscaped walkways, housing, restaurants, and<br />
a school. The architect, Charles Moore, opened a storefront Design Center<br />
along the same lines as East Orange and the HUB. But in order to appeal<br />
to the widest possible audience (since the project had metropolitan significance<br />
as well as a neighborhood scale), Charles Moore decided to do a<br />
series of television programs using the cultural education network.<br />
94. In these television programmes he outlined the planning and design<br />
issues, and designed and drew as he talked. Discussions with officials<br />
and technical experts were held in front of the cameras. Viewers were<br />
invited to telephone questions and recommendations. Quickly each program<br />
becmme a metropolitan-wide debate between the designer and his official and<br />
citizen constituents. And audiences were invited to the.storefront Design<br />
Center to continue the dialogues and participate in the work - which hundreds<br />
of people did.(l) The designs are now being implemented.<br />
"Charettes"<br />
95. An alternative to the open storefront approach adopted by Uniplan<br />
in East Orange, and the series of public forums which formed the Pontiac<br />
process, is the so-called "charette" process. Charettes have been attempted<br />
in a number of situations in the United States.<br />
•96. Charette is a term borrowed from architectural usage. Originally<br />
this French word referred to the cart which was wheeled through the beauxarts<br />
studios of nineteenth and early twentieth century architectural<br />
schools to collect the students' projects prior to jurying; and the term<br />
came to signify working under enormous pressure to complete drawings by<br />
a deadline.<br />
97. The charette process was initiated in 19&8 by Walter Mylecraine,<br />
Assistant Commissioner for Construction Services in the U.S. Office of<br />
Education. Essentially the process advocated by Mylecraine was that<br />
architects, rather than spending their entire planning time isolated from<br />
the client (which in the largest sense could be the whole community),<br />
should immerse themselves for a specific length of time with consultants<br />
1) "Riverdesign", Progressive Architecture, January 1977, pages 84-85.<br />
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