Bill Lennertz
Author, Founder (Method founders & authors)
Why they matter for gatherings
Bill Lennertz is an author and founder known for developing charrette-based methods. He focuses on participatory planning and knowledge-sharing through structured collaborative processes.
His established methods provide frameworks for real-time collaboration, useful in event design and facilitation where inclusive decision-making is key. The National Charrette Institute supports applying these techniques.
He developed the Charette Procedure (Metaplan) and related methods for participatory planning and knowledge-sharing.
Here is where those methods trace back to.
Where the methods came from
A qualitative sketch, not a dated history: where the practice started, what it produced, and where it stands today.
Those roots feed the methods below.
The methods, ready to run
Named methods, and the exercises in our library that put them to work.
Charette Procedure (Metaplan)
And here is where you can watch them run.
Where you can see them practiced
Gold-set agendas that visibly put these methods to work.
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Authority profile
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Evidence and receipts
Sources
- https://plannersweb.com/2008/07/an-introduction-to-charrettes/
- https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/national-charrette-institute-nci-formed
- https://www.planning.org/pas/memo/2018/nov/
- https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/charrette-handbook
- https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/the-defining-principles-of-a-modern-charrette-as-defined-by-the-national-charrette-institute
- https://openalex.org/A5021070220
- https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2017/02/21/great-idea-charrette
Grounded in: people_merged, console_people.
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