Same, USian, never heard it in software. I only know the word because I attended a public charrette for proposed zoning changes in my city. My wife (she told

Same, USian, never heard it in software. I only know the word because I attended a public charrette for proposed zoning changes in my city. My wife (she told me when I asked about the word) did design charrettes in graduate school, which in school are a kind of brutal peer critique of projects at the end of the term, rather than an interactive presentation and gathering of feedback from stakeholders as originally envisioned. The public charrette I attended for zoning changes was pretty fascinating. The most interesting part was that about twenty roughly block-sized pieces of the city were chosen as case studies, and for each block, an entire wall was dedicated to visualizing the current state of each block along with implications of the proposed change and other options, and a there was a person at each wall available to walk you through it and answer questions. (A lot of the members of the public who attended were developers who were asking extremely specific and wonky hypotheticals, so this was not an easy job.) I had no idea what to expect, and I was flabbergasted at the effort and professionalism that went into it.