10-12 APR 2025
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Dictionary Definition:
an increase or revival after a period of little activity, popularity, or occurrence
In HOPES:
cultural resurgence, reconnecting communities, building & rebuilding communities with joy and purpose
Culture has long been used to embed knowledge of land stewardship practices that have been ignored, overlooked, and erased. Resurgence is about bringing this knowledge back to the surface as a way to combat climate change.
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Our Theme Resurgence:
Dictionary Definition:
an increase or revival after a period of little activity, popularity, or occurrence
In HOPES:
cultural resurgence, reconnecting communities, building & rebuilding communities with joy and purpose

Culture has long been used to embed knowledge of land stewardship practices that have been ignored, overlooked, and erased. RESURGENCE is about bringing this knowledge back to the surface as a way to combat climate change.
Schedule of Events
Subject to Change
Thank you to AIA Oregon for providing AIA CE
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Thursday, April 10th
5:15-6:30 PM: "Weaving Our Stories"
Speaker: Lisa + Leaf Hillman, Land Resource Stewardship + Indigenous Storytelling
AIA Continuing Education Course
6:30-6:45 PM:
Music + Poetry: Hossein Salehi Santoor
6:45-7:15 PM: "State of the Urban Farm"
Harper Keeler + Ignacio Lopez Buson
7:15-8:00 PM: Dinner
Provided by Falling Sky Brewery
Friday, April 11th
12:00-1:30 PM: "Native Placemaking and Reconnecting Foodways: A Participatory Design Workshop"
Workshop: Marina Figueroa-Rowan + Eric Alipio
2:15-4:00 PM: "Challenging Patterns of Supremacy: Provocation from Collective Pedagogy, Practice, and Organizing"
Workshop: Dark Matter U, Shalini Agrawal, Lisa C. Henry, Bz Zhang
AIA Continuing Education Course
4:00-5:00 PM: "Shrinking Gracefully: Finding Sustainable Transitions in a Shrinking City"
Speaker: Fernando Ortiz-Moya
AIA Continuing Education Course
5:00-6:15 PM: "Reviving What Connects Us: Libraries as Hubs for Cultural and Community Resurgence"
Speaker: Shamichael Hallman
AIA Continuing Education Course
6:30-7:30 PM: "Reclaiming Life Behind Bars: The Prison Cell as a Creative Place"
7:30-8:15 PM: Dinner
Provided by Falling Sky Brewery
Saturday, April 12th
9:00-9:30 AM:
Coffee + Pastries
9:30-10:45 AM: SPLIT EVENTS
Student Panel: Material Innovations
Student Panel: Food and Landscape Futures
10:45-12:15 AM: SPLIT EVENTS
Student Panel: History + Current Cultural Political
Workshop: Grove Urban Garden
12:15-1:30 PM: "30 Years Later, They're Back: HOPES Founders Tell the Origin Story and Where it's Taken them Since"
HOPES [1] Alumni: Carina Pastor, Renner Johnston, Bian Murtaugh, Liz Caraker, Julia Lave Johnston, Peg Butler, Rob Pena
1:30-2:15 PM: Lunch
Provided by Falling Sky Brewery
2:15-2:30 PM: Trashion Fashion Show
Sponsored by: MECCA
Trashion Designer: Cheri Moritz

2:45-3:00 PM:
Poetry: Dorothee Ostemeier
3:00-4:00 PM: "Stop Building"
Speaker: Bailey Morgan Brown Mitchel, Tribal Law, Property, Housing, and the Importance of Tribal Sovereignty in Early Design Education
AIA Continuing Education Course
4:15-5:15 PM: Sustainable Cities and Landscapes
Speaker: Jaime Andrade Lopez
AIA Continuing Education Course