HOPES [29]

Structures in Transition

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The HOPES Conference (Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability) was established in 1994 by UO architecture, landscape architecture and art students eager to direct their design education. Each year, HOPES provides a platform for students, professionals, leaders and activists to engage in rich discussion on sustainable solutions to contemporary issues.

Thank you!

The world is changing rapidly; our climates, our technologies, and the institutions we have relied on for centuries are in flux. But with disruption comes opportunity, and as designers, we are uniquely situated to leverage this volatility for good.

Design is an inherently optimistic practice, and while the designer as an individual may not have the power to enact significant change, design as a practice just might. HOPES 29 is a call to pause and reflect, to purposefully embrace change and to take a collective approach to the shifting structures of our world. Together, we can begin to construct more just and sustainable future.

Teresa Moses

Jefferey Hou

LinYee Yuan

Tim Waterman

Sadie Red Wing

Matthew Wizinsky

Friday, April 19th

Saturday, April 20th

Sunday, April 21st

5:00 pm  Welcome and Land Acknowledgment

LA 177 –  livestreamed

5:30 pm Catalyzing Change, Empowering Design – Jefferey Hou

LA177 –  livestreamed

AIA CE Credit

7:00 pm Networking Mixer (Space Limited, Please Register in advance)

Gerlinger Alumni Lounge

*Schedule is Subject to Change

9:00 am  Coffee and Pastries 

Lawrence Hall Lobby

10:00 am Design After Capitalism – Matthew Wizinsky

LA177 –  livestreamed

11:30 am Split Events:

Workshop: Designing for Deconstruction and Reuse – Nancy Cheng (registration required)

LA 206

Panel: Designing the future: Global engagement in Design Education – Jeff Hou, Ken Yocom, Yekang Ko, Fei Mo, Kory Russel and Yizhao Yang

LA 177  – livestreamed

Student Presentation: NOMAS Workshop 

LA 166

12:30 pm Lunch

LA Wilcox Hearth

1:30 pm Designing Ecologies – LinYee Yuan

LA 177 –  livestreamed

3:00 pm Split Events

Indigenous Perspective in Design Education – Sadie Red Wing

LA 177 –  livestreamed

Unplacement and Engagement in Unstructured Realities – Nuno Nunes

LA115

4:30 pm Abolitionist Design – Terresa Moses

LA 177 –  livestreamed

AIA CE Credit

9:00 am  Coffee and Pastries 

Lawrence Hall Lobby

10:00 am Split Events

Collaborative Practice Along the Margins of Science and Place: The Burke Meadow – Polly Olsen and Ken Yocom

LA177 – livestreamed

AIA CE Credit

10:30 am Something in the Way: Memory and Preservation on the Upper Klamath River – Samuel Wylie

LA 166

11:30 am Split Events;

Zine Making Workshop – Terresa Moses (Registration required)

LA 206

Panel: River as Architecture: Buildings are Living Things – Will Smith, Abe Kelso, Ali Gens, and Benjamin Fuglevand

LA 177

Student Presentation: Material Innovations: Maya Merrill, Lyric Rosa-O’Hayer, Ri Zarate and Dylan Wood

LA 166 

1:00 pm Lunch

LA Wilcox Hearth 

2:00 pm Planetarity and Design Imaginaries – Tim Waterman

LA 177 – livestreamed

AIA CE Credit

This conference we seek to… 

  • Be critical of our own institutions

  • Establish collective approaches to systemic change

  • Imagine a future beyond our current structures

An important step towards this future is addressing our own complicity. For years, designers have enabled flawed systems to exploit not just the resources of the natural world, but the resources of our own labor. This year, HOPES challenges designers to examine our own institutions, exploring how redefining our own modes of practice might better prepare us to do the difficult work of restructuring our institutions to better serve our sustainable goals.