HOPES [29]
Structures in Transition
Conference
April 19th-21st 2024
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University of Oregon College of Design
Lawrence Hall
1190 Franklin Blvd, Eugene, OR 97403
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Attention Architects!
Continuing Education Credits available for select presentations on behalf of the Oregon AIA. Please see schedule for details.
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.
Join us in April
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.
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.