I was half listening to a Rem Koolhaus lecture a while ago. (He does go on a bit.) Then he described a word that architects use, meaning - the bit at the end of the pitch process, where it gets very last minute and you have all the good ideas. He said that architects actually plan for that to happen in the timing plan of the creative process. It probably goes in MS Project. It seemed like a fantastic word. A really useful concept. How clever architects are, I thought, we should remember that when we're doing creative stuff. Though of course I couldn't remember the word.
Then I came across the word again. it's charette. Though it appears it doesn't quite mean what I thought it does. It means this. Which is a shame. Someone needs to come up with a word to describe that last minute ideas thing. Perhaps it's panic.
how about a planic (as in 'planned panic')?
doesn't quite hit the spot, but you can use it as a holding-word until the proper one turns up.
perhaps we need a deadline so we can work it out in the last 5 seconds.
rather like an ebay auction.
Posted by: funkypancake | November 10, 2004 at 09:41 PM
1 day away from the presentation - the best of times the wors of times.
Hows about tumbril :-0
Posted by: John G | November 18, 2004 at 08:05 PM
I use the term to describe to customers - "how not to build a website". Charette - is the mad frantic bit leading up to launch date when you try and do all the stuff you should have done 2 months ago.
It's always a nightmare - and there's never anything creative to come out of it. So now we try and remember to do all that stuff at the beginning of a project.
Don't plan for panic - plan so you can avoid panic!
Posted by: davidcoe... | February 03, 2006 at 12:25 PM