Mar 2 2007 - 12:00pm
Attendance:
Tamara, Joe, Anneliese, Katie, Sarah, Tracey, Pete, Dianne, Hannah, John, Kris; Frank Vignola, Steve Stolarczek, Josh Cerra, Brook Muller, Steve Mital
introductions
Pete: update; transition; events - 2010 imperative webcast; now in full HOPES mode. Solar hot water project going well; applied for surplus ASUO funds. Partners with business students for solar walkway by library. ~$300,000, would add 20kW to school's PV.
Curriculum: ecological design proposal very near submission now. Have outline of work to complete by March 16. Have letters from Mayor Piercy and Eric Gunderson!
HOPES: schedule distributed. Printing registration mailing today. Website went online Weds, is now fully up to date.
CHARRETTE: 24h design charrette: Potters for Peace, portable water filters. Challenge: how can the cargo container be set up to define a place? How can education about the problem & solution be accomplished graphically? Pots are approved by UN. We'll have 4 at the charrette.
Showcases & speakers: Nina Merritt from Namibia; Interface Engineers with Kevin Dual from Portland; just finished OHSU building. Eric Freed from CA; Sustainable Design. Greenworks just confirmed. Michael Singer: Jason Bergmann water work. John Hyde, member of parliament in Perth, Australia; efforts to sustain water resources. Confluence Project: art project based off of Columbia River (Snake / Mt Hood / Columbia) down to mouth at Astoria. John Paul Jones architects will speak; outreach part is art in the schools, getting students to create artwork about
their relationship to the rivers. Walkerton, CA included with watr contamination story.
WORKSHOPS: Bioswale installation on campus near Johnson Hall, 5 x 50 site, all day Saturday. Also a rainwater catcment project in Lawrence courtyard. Will eventually become part of the CASL house, hopefully. Ancient art of indigo dyeing workshop. HOPES in the future workshop. Also yoga, trashy fashion show, water walk of Willamette river, greening of brownfields workshop, rammed earth workshop in collaboration with DesignBridge, Tally your Water Scorecard.
PANELS: sequence of 3 targeting professionals, looking at stormwater mgmt on 3 different scales; water & energy generation; water rights / access / equity; marketing sustainability; turbulence / destructive water forces.
Steve Mital: Kirsten Rudestam had a project of 5 ugs w/radio documentaries of memories of Willamette river. stored on a telephone line, installed signs that had phone number to hear person's account of memories of that place. go to the environmental studies homepage, to env leadership projects, it was in last year's set. Also: on March 11 is the 50th anniversary of the drowning of a falls by the Dalles dam. Made a 14min documentary of the drowning of the dam. It's one of the Confluence installation sites. Also fits in with turbulent water project. Hannah: could show documentary during lunch in the Hearth. Env Studies office has a copy of it.
Brook: HOPES in the future is a great idea. Many conferences have business meetings for planning purposes. A cast of characters comes back every year and it would be very interesting to see them all together in a room and hear their interests in the future. Could be called HOPES reunion to attract those characters. Kevin Parker is one, Noel ?. Last year, recruiters were very successful in getting registrations, but then a lot of people didn't come because studios didn't let out. Send an email to Rachel to send out to faculty in AAA to encourage profs to adjust schedules to incorporate HOPES into syllabus, avoid having big projects due Monday following. Also send to aamos@uoregon.edu in Law School who heads up environmental law work.
Pete: Would like to improve continuity in organizational structure of the EDC from year to year. please send us feedback about that. Any other pointers?
Frank: Always helps to write things up for people who come in. Impressed by what you're able to do year after year.
Josh: Send summary along with email to professors. Will post posters in Portland.
John: Website is completely up-to-date; it's the best it's ever been!
Scott: Can post at AIA meeting, 1st Thursday of the month.
Steve: EDC is the most successful student group on campus, maintains institutional memory well already.
Brook: Agree with Steve completely; send an email to our dean monthly for more EDC support. Need GTF support. You're in a design program and then take on a full-time job, for free, that gives the school a lot.
Steve: Don't want to lose the grit you have by being an all-volunteer student conference, without the ease of support (?)
Josh: You have the grit, but now you have national & international attention.
Brook: Funky global.
Steve: Students in other programs can be a real asset to you. Think about how you can reach out beyond AAA.
Frank: contact us anytime!
