The National Charrette Institute (NCI) is hosting its Charrette System (2.5 days) and Management and Facilitation certificate (1 day) courses back-to-back in Salt Lake City (https://www.canr.msu.edu/nci/events/) during the week of October 7. Combined, they are nearly 22 hours of both AIA and AICP CEUs. These trainings are ideal for anyone involved in transforming communities and organizations like architects, city and regional planners, urban designers, landscape architects, developers, and land and transportation planning consultants. Below is a brief overview about the certificate trainings we provide along with links for more information about each.

The purpose of the NCI Charrette System™ training (2.5 days) is to teach the tools and techniques for planning and running a successful project using a NCI charrette and to give participants a practical understanding of the power of the NCI Charrette System™ to create sustainable communities. The course begins with a comprehensive overview of the entire NCI Charrette System™ including a day-by-day account of the process and products of a recent charrette. This overview sets the framework for in-depth case study exercises, conducted in a small team format, which teach the essential tools for assessing and planning a project using a NCI charrette. Discussions include charrette team capabilities and chemistry, charrette studio set-up, budgets, and stories from famous charrette successes and failures.

The NCI Charrette System Management and Facilitation^TM course is an advanced one-day training for directors and project managers who are charged with managing charrettes, or who may hire a consultant to conduct a charrette. The training focuses on the nuts-and-bolts tools and techniques needed for managing a multiple-day charrette. Also included is a public meeting facilitation skills boot camp. Both courses are taught to a maximum of 40 participants, who receive a certificate if the course is completed in its entirety.

Holly Madill
Director, National Charrette Institute
School of Planning, Design and Construction
Michigan State University
Human Ecology Building
552 W. Circle Drive, Room 112
East Lansing, MI 48824
(517) 884-0795 ext. 2
nci@PROTECTED
http://www.canr.msu.edu/nci/index