Hey everyone,
Thought I'd open up discussion about HOPES 15: Thinking Small. Post your ideas here for Workshops, Panels, Keynotes, Party, other events that we didn't even know we needed, Image/Publications, etc. We'll put up the draft manifesto very soon.
Ideas I have:
Workshops:
Green Roof workshop - modular, on the ground planting session, then locating them between the art wing and 278 so that we can all look at them year round.
Workshop for kids at a local school building a small structure (an outdoor science station?) kind of like this:
Urban Farm tour/thing - somehow, we should celebrate the fact that the urban farm is there. And Food for Lane County. This could be a farm tour, a workday, a building project, or a panel - if it's a panel it might be interesting to focus it around making "local architecture" like the local food movement...that brings in vernacular folks, city repair...
DesignBridge has talked about a small chapel at Bring Recycling. CASL definitely wants to do something, but I don't know if they have a specific plan yet.
Panels:
Distributed Energy (generation) and Water (collection) - we have someone excited about the energy side, and our EWEB contacts told me about a person doing something similar with water, so small scale production might be a perfect panel.
Nanotechnology - there are some really great profs here that do nanotech stuff. They might know a few other folks, enough to make a design-related nanotechnology panel.
Microclimates - maybe this is a teach-in about using microclimates in design. Co-taught by landscape architecture and architecture (Alison and Bart?)
Infill - Brook and Michael have been doing some great research on Infill housing in Eugene. This might open up to a more general planning/urbanity discussion - especially with one of Allyn's keynote speaker ideas. Maybe a small urban discussion is a good place to think about transportation, too, if we want to.
Something about the minihouse trend? Something about visioning or activism? Something about design for children? Guerilla gardening or appropriate technologies? Something art or economy related?
Speakers:
Wendell Berry if we can get him...an amazing novelist, poet, essayist, and thinker. If you don't know about him, at least read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry
Other:
Bus from Portland! And maybe OSU?
Opening up Top Ten Green Studio Projects to other schools, trying to get students to come from all over. If they do come, setting up clear groups for them to intermingle, making their visit really worthwhile.
Here is list of possible Hopes speakers that include workshop, keynote, and possible panel/table topic speakers.
As of Friday 14th of November.
Please comment on one's you prefer, or would like to find out more about.
WENDELL BERRY
author, poet and essayist. His views as stated straight from Wikipedia… His
nonfiction serves as an extended conversation about the life he values. According to Berry, the good life
includes sustainable agriculture, appropriate technologies, healthy rural communities, connection to
place, the pleasures of good food, husbandry, good work, local economics, the miracle of life, fidelity,
frugality, reverence, and the interconnectedness of life. The threats Berry finds to this good life include:
industrial farming and the industrialization of life, ignorance, hubris, greed, violence against others and
against the natural world, the eroding topsoil in the United States, global economics, and environmental
destruction.
TED HOFF
One of the most widely known individuals in the computer industry. Orginally designed
the first microprocessor for Intel. He was also one of the first individuals to work at Intel. It would be
interesting to simply have his thoughts about where we are going as a society and how computers have
help/hindered. Here we have an opportunity to branch out to other fields on campus and ask who they
think might be important to contact to bring to the conference.
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
a British sculptor, photographer
and environmentalist living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in
natural and urban settings. His art involves the use of natural and found objects, to create both
temporary and permanent sculptures which draw out the character of their environment. We could ask
the art department and see who they may suggest as a good speaker.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Contemporary Novelist and environmentalist. Kingsolver has said, "If we
can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread". She would
represent another excellent way to reach out to other professional programs on campus and individuals
within the community. Her newest book: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle address food and could fit nicely
into program.
FAIR TRADE
is an organized social movement and market-based approach to empowering
developing country producers and promoting sustainability. The movement advocates the
payment of a fair price as well as social and environmental standards in areas related to the
production of a wide variety of goods. It focuses in particular on exports from developing
countries to developed countries, most notably handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea, bananas,
honey, cotton, wine, fresh fruit and flowers.
STEVEN LOPEZ
I was fond of art at an early age. When I was 4 years old my mom drew a
cartoon character on paper. I nearly passed out from the excitement when she drew it. I
remember my grandmother and I would take the bus to the Downtown fashion. I would sit next
to the windows and noticed huge murals around the neighborhoods. When I would go to Sunday
mass, the local church had a mural that I would look at when I became bored with the priest.
This fondness grew into an obsession when I entered middle school. I had experienced a
resounding sub-culture that would impact me for the greater part of my life, graffiti. To my
family it seemed like a distraction because it got me suspended from school. I didn’t know what I
was doing myself so it wasn’t like I could tell them, “Hey it’s okay. I’m going to draw for the
rest of my life.”
SIR JOHN THEODORE HOUGHTON-
co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
He was the lead editor of first three IPCC reports. He was professor in atmospheric physics at the
University of Oxford, former Chief Executive at the Met Office and founder of the Hadley Centre.
He is also a very religious individual and would provide a different view point to the discussion on Global
warming and the environment.
Becky Bee
homequarters in murphy oregon, becky bee has started and maintained a business in cob construction for houses and out buildings. Becky Bee has made house in South America, mexico, canada and the us. She has also appeared in Mother Earth News.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Homes/2002-04-01/Natural-Earthen-Homes.aspx
JOHN SCHAEFFER
John Schaeffer has been exploring renewable energy and sustainable living since graduating
from UC Berkeley in 1971.
While living on a 300-acre commune in Mendocino County, California, after college, John found
himself hosting crowds around his solar-powered TV whenever Saturday Night Live came on.
He started selling solar power supplies and back-to-the-land living necessities to his neighbors,
and Real Goods was born. Now Gaiam Real Goods after a merger with Gaiam in 2001, the 30-
year-old company has grown into the foremost global source for tools and information on
renewable energy and sustainable living.
www.realgoods.com
DANIEL SOLOMON
principal of the firm, Daniel is an architect and urban designer whose 35-year career combines
achievements in professional practice with academic pursuits of teaching and writing. He is the
founder of Solomon E.T.C., now a WRT company, and the principal author of its many awardwinning
projects. Residential architecture and the interaction between housing and urban design
have been the main focus of his work. He is a co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism
and author of many articles and three books: ReBuilding (Princeton Architectural Press, 1992),
Global City Blues (Island Press, 2003) and Cosmopolis (2008)
PAT T BOONE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2bOug1d20c
Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr. (born May 22, 1928) is an American businessman who chairs the
hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator during the 1980s.
With an estimated current net worth of about $3 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 117thrichest
person in America and ranked 369th in the world. Pickens has given more than $700 million away to charity.[1]
WILLIAM YUAN
is a thirteen year old boy from Beaverton, Oregon. Yuan has developed a 3D Solar Cell
that has the potential to revolutionize solar power.[1] His project, named "A Highly‐Efficient 3‐
Dimensional Nanotube Solar Cell for Visible and UV Light" was granted a $25,000 scholarship, the
Davidson Fellow award,[2] for his education [
GOVERNER KITZHABER
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber was born in 1947 in Colfax, Washington. He grew up in
Oregon and graduated from South Eugene High School in 1965. After graduating from
Dartmouth College in 1969, he attended the University of Oregon Medical School, earning a
medical degree in 1973. He practiced emergency medicine in Roseburg, Oregon for 13 years.
Kitzhaber is married to the former Sharon LaCroix of Saskatchewan, Canada. They have one
son, Logan, born in October 1997.Kitzhaber first ran for public office in 1978 and was elected to
the Oregon House of Representatives. In 1980 he was elected to the first of three terms in the
Oregon Senate representing Douglas County and parts of Jackson County. He was elected
Senate President in 1985 and served in that position until 1993. Kitzhaber was elected governor
November 8, 1994, and was sworn into office January 9, 1995. He was re-elected on November
3, 1998 and inaugurated for a second term on January 11, 1999.As Senate President, Kitzhaber
was recognized nationally for authoring the ground-breaking Oregon Health Plan. He is credited
both with crafting the plan itself and for bringing together diverse interest groups to pass the law,
which took effect in February 1994.
DON HARRIS
http://www.wind.appstate.edu/workshops/workshops.php
: Don Harris is a national microhydro expert. He has developed residential hydro systems since 1981
and is responsible for nearly 3,000 successful systems. The Harris system is an efficient, durable
battery charging pelton turbine making it the most popular micro-turbine in the US. Don’s years of
experience will provide participants with a unique opportunity to learn from one of the industry’s
leading experts.
SIM VAN DER RYN
BIO: is a visionary, author, educator, public leader, and internationally distinguished pioneer in
ecological design. For more than 40 years, Sim has been at the forefront of integrating
ecological principles into the built environment, creating multi-scale solutions driven by nature’s
intelligence. He has served as California’s first energy-conscious State Architect,
IF YOU HAVE SOMEONE WHO YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEE AT HOPES PLEASE COMMENT WITH THEIR NAME AND SOME WAY OF FIND OUT ABOUT THEM
*Steve Badanes
Steve is a founder of Jersey Devil, an architectural firm perpetuating the tradition of medieval craftsmen. The firm is comprised of skilled craftsmen, architects, inventors, and artists "committed to the interdependence of building and design." Jersey Devil architect / builders live on-site during construction of their designs, which are known for energy efficiency and innovative use of materials. Steve has lectured on Jersey Devil work in 46 states and 10 countries. The work has been profiled in Devil's Workshop.
As the HSW Chair at UW, he leads students in the Neighborhood Design/Build and co-founded the Mexico Design/Build program with former UW professor Sergio Palleroni. During the summer he teaches at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Vermont and has worked in Africa with the Department of Architecture at Miami University.
*Hanz Scholz
Co-founder and Designer of the “folding bike” BIKE FRIDAY company. www.bikefriday.com.
Peter Keyes was talking about how cool this guy was, and how inspiring he spoke. He is a small business entrepreneur, and his products are on a small level as well.
*MaryJane Butters
Environmental activist and organic farmer, MaryJane Butters is a pioneer of sustainability and conservation. She is founder of a thriving environmental group, has developed a diverse array of organic products, and runs a rural enterprise that has been featured in National Geographic magazine. She trains future organic farmers through a farm apprentice program, runs a B&B that was featured in the New York Times Style Magazine, designs and sells her own line of organic linens, and is the creator of Project F.A.R.M. (First-class American Rural Made), an organization that supports rural women’s handicrafts. She is the author of three books on farm living, and her magazine, MaryJanesFarm.
*Matt Freeman-Gleason (Ecohaus, Washington)
The oldest supplier of green building materials in the U.S. Founder Matt Freeman-Gleason says, “It was really frustration that got me started in this business – a desire to do better.” “I think the most surprising thing is the variety of people we get in the store on a daily basis. It’s amazing, across the board there’s just this desire to do things better. People understand intrinsically that there’s something more that their house can embody, whether it’s healthy buildings, resource and energy efficiency, or larger environmental issues.”
*Shane Endicott (ReBuilding Center, Portland)
“I think the most surprising thing is the variety of people we get in the store on a daily basis. It’s amazing, across the board there’s just this desire to do things better. People understand intrinsically that there’s something more that their house can embody, whether it’s healthy buildings, resource and energy efficiency, or larger environmental issues.” The ReBuilding Center makes it easy for Portlanders to make the most out of locally available building materials, while giving something back to their community.
*Ross Chapin
The contributions of architect Ross Chapin and developer Jim Soules have helped revolutionize the rules for homebuilding in the Northwest. By designing master-planned communities of small homes that facilitate (and even encourage) daily interaction and interdependence between neighbors, Chapin and Soules have shown that well-designed density not only works, it can actually enhance a property's value. Their attractive model is bringing small homes to market in a big way.
This guy is the up and coming architect for "cottage developments" in Seattle and surrounding areas. he is getting people to start thinking about their spaces and how much they really need, he brings the idea of quality over quantity.
I attended the Nov 12th meeting and had volunteered to look into things we might do with the mini solar collector that is sitting in the Design Bridge office.
I have connected with Frank Vignola of the Solar Energy Center and he has agreed to send one of his team to look at it with me and give me a quick update of it's working condition and potential.
As far as ideas...I was thinking of a mobile tea cart-I believe I could get tea donations from Yogi Tea for this and it would be a great way to promote for EDC as well as HOPES. Might even get a dj set up occasionally and do some dancing
see http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080722.html for inspiration.
I will be attending the dB meeting this Wednesday to find out more.
HOPE this helps,
Himat Khalsa
Hi Hopes Organizers
We participated in the 1999 HOPES conference and were wondering since it is a tenth anniversary if the organizers would consider a topic based on bamboo conservation and utility this year. I would love to discuss this with you in the near future.
Gib Cooper, Executive Director BOTA (BAMBOOOFTHEAMERICAS.ORG)
OBA Board Member and Newsletter Editor (OregonBambooAssociation.org/)
TEL: 541-247-0835 Gold Beach, OR