The Cart

On October 28, two outstanding Interior Design students, Feretti Valerio and Pedro Diaz, presented a mini-show called The Cart.  They were selected to present their concepts by Interior Design Department Chair Erin Cantor and instructor Aileen Iverson for the originality they showed in content and development.  The class was Non-Residential Design, aka Urban Design.

According to Erin Cantor, the term “charette” evolved from a pre-1900 exercise at the École des Beaux Arts in France. Architectural students were given a design problem to solve within an allotted time. When that time was up, the students would rush their drawings from the studio to the École in a cart called a charette. Students often jumped in the cart to finish drawings on the way. The term evolved to refer to the intense design exercise itself. Today it refers to a creative process akin to visual brainstorming that is used by design professionals to develop solutions to a design problem within a limited timeframe.