We plan, implement and direct all forms of public consultation in the urban development field. We have a special expertise in design charrettes and dynamic planning.

Bob Ransford, Senior Consultant at COUNTERPOINT, has a Certificate in Urban Design from Simon Fraser University and he completed the Charrette Planner’s Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He has an in-depth knowledge of dynamic planning, implementing its various elements in a wide range of urban development projects.

Ransford brings all elements of dynamic planning together in the sophisticated process of a charrette. All participants in a charrette:

• Work collaboratively.
• Design cross-functionally – “talking with a pencil”.
• Compress their work sessions.
• Communicate in short feedback loops.
• Look at the big picture and the little details at the same time.
• Measure projected outcomes.
• Produce a plan that is feasible.

A charrette is a holistic, collaborative, transformative planning process that fosters an environment of trust, reduces re-work and facilitates implementation to create a designed-based win/win solution for the most controversial and complicated urban design and planning problems.