Charrette – An intense, collaborative and interactive planning process usually performed over a compressed time period. (The term is derived from the French word meaning “little cart.” At the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, proctors would collect final plans in carts, and students would sometimes jump on board and frantically fine tune their drawings at last minute.)
Regenerative Design - This is a design process that acknowledges that humans are an integral part of nature and that human and natural systems - currently disparate systems in western culture - need to be in alignment in order to achieve a state of continual and healthy evolution.
Systems Thinking – Involves the use of various techniques to study systems of many kinds. It includes studying things in a holistic way, rather than through purely reductionist techniques. It aims to gain insights into the whole by understanding the linkages and interactions between the elements that comprise the whole "system.” Systems thinking can help avoid the silo effect, where a lack of organizational communication can cause a change in one area of a system to adversely affect another area of the system.
