Day 2 of the Charrette was also a pretty neat experience. There were 19 tables of people there to work on ideas for the city. After a recap of the night before we dug in and started brainstorming ideas with our group and drawing them on the maps we had. My group was an amazing mix of people. We had a bigtime developer(did The Jefferson, is doing Echo Harbor and lots of other projects), and architect, an urban planner, a historian(or two), a genealogist, a chaplain and myself. Needless to say I was quite a bit out of my league. I was amazed that most of them knew just about every single building in the city and people were pulling out stats on the number of cars per day on certain streets and average speeds. I liked most of their ideas and didn’t have a ton to offer besides them so I did some floating and got some photos and video.
After the design time each group presented their ideas to the whole group. My camera’s memory card filled up without me getting much from the presentations(need to get a real video camera) and I had to leave a little early anyways so I rolled out after a couple of them. Seems like it was a good experience all around. Here is the video I took from day 2:
