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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Charrette |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Lotus Blossom |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Tage | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 10-50 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Sketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized Direction | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Lotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop |
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