charrette

American  

[shuh-ret] / ʃəˈrɛt /

Or charette

noun

1. a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.

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Etymology

Origin of charrette

1965–70; < French: cart, Old French, equivalent to char chariot, wagon ( car ¹ ) + -ette -ette, from the idea of speed of wheels

Example Sentences

“But people just want it both ways. Having a giant code and still having a design charrette where people argue—those things are correlated!”

From Slate

A 72-hour, coffee-fueled design charrette — an intense period of design or planning activity — in Chevy Chase resulted in a 3-D model of what the new house would become.

From Washington Post

Two men died, one a computer engineer aged 44 who was killed while inside the butcher’s shop; the second, Julien Vinson, 55, owner of La Charrette, a café-theatre, who was stabbed in the street trying to protect his 12-year-old son.

From The Guardian

Bill goes to Durham to run a town charrette on school integration—and taps Ann and C. P. to co-chair.

From The New Yorker

As a result, there was a lot to hash out in the charrette—and, inasmuch as it brought residents together for ten days, twelve hours each day, plenty of tough and substantive talk took place there.

From The New Yorker