Track 1
People + Politics

The Ethics of Modern Architecture
During the inception of colonial states in the New World, socio-political structures painted images of unpopulated land for the purposes of expansion settlement. These lands were not actually empty; they were the homelands to native peoples and were an integral part of the peoples’ worldview.
The spatial transformation of native landscapes within colonialism has had deep, lasting effects upon native communities and individuals’ health. A correlation exists between the places people inhabit and how they envision themselves spatially within the physical landscape. Over time, the construction of colonial environments on native cultural landscapes has transformed the native communities.
The panelists will explore our shared American history and cultural landscape within the context of space, social and environmental problems and sustainability.

John Baldwin
Baldwin is the director of the Institute for a Sustainable Environment and an associate professor at the University of Oregon. He is the author of “Corporate Environmental Policy” (JAI Press, 1994) and “Environmental Planning and Management” (Westwiev Press, 1984). Baldwin’s professional experience includes: Environmental Education, Public and Private Sector Environmental Planning and Management-Corporate Ecolog, Sustainable Development: Environmental, Natural Resource Management, and Cultural and Biological Conservation.

Teresa Garcia
Garcia is an international studies and planning, public policy and management graduate student at the University of Oregon. She is currently a McNair, Gates and a Senator Morris K. Udall scholar. Her internship experiences include: The Army Corps of Engineers, The Native American Research Team at the Oregon Social Learning Center, U.S. House of Representatives; and U.S. Senate.

John Lopez
Lopez is a graduate student in the School of Architecture and the Department of International Studies at the University of Oregon. He is also a research fellow at the Center for Indigenous Cultural Survival at the UO. His work focuses on the conceptualization, construction and use of space in colonialism, and its effects upon indigenous cultural landscapes.

Elpidio Rocha
Rocha is a member of Artists, Architects on the Border Edge of Los Angeles (ADOBE LA). He received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities dealing with the creation of a Democratic American culture in celebration of America’s Bicentennial.

Panel Coordinator: John Lopez


LEED Policy Examined

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™, a priority program of the U.S. Green Building Council, is a system designed for rating new and existing commercial, institutional and high-rise residential buildings. Credits are earned for satisfying criteria of sustainable design and different levels of certification are awarded based on the total credits earned. The system is designed to be comprehensive in scope, yet simple in operation.
LEED™ is a voluntary, consensus-based, market-driven system based on existing proven technology. It evaluates environmental performance from a whole building perspective over a building’s life cycle, providing a definitive standard for what constitutes a green building. Unlike other rating systems currently in existence, the development of this system was initiated by the U.S. Green Council Membership, representing all segments of the building industry.
This panel will give a brief introduction to the rating system and present a few certified projects. Offering a variety of perspectives, the panelists will describe their experience with the system and evaluate its positive and negative aspects.

Stefan Behnisch
See biography in Keynote Speaker section.

Ross Leventhal
Leventhal received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brandeis University in 1990 and a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Oregon in 1998. While at the UO, Leventhal enthusiastically pursued the study of green architecture as co-director of the Solar Information Center, an Environmental Control Systems Graduate Teaching Fellow, and as a Solar Energy Association of Oregon board member. Now in Seattle, with NBBJ, he has been helping the firm produce sustainable buildings on a large scale. Currently Leventhal serves on the board of directors of the U.S. Green Building Council Cascadia chapter.

Alan Scott
Scott is a registered architect and certification specialist for the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED™ green building rating system and has more than thirteen years of experience in sustainable design. As the director of Consulting Services for Green Building Services, Scott facilitates eco-charrettes to set goals for green building projects and leads the firm’s LEED certification program.
Scott has conducted numerous seminars and workshops on sustainability, resource-efficient construction, passive solar design and using The Natural Step system conditions for construction. He also served as chair of the Committee on the Environment of the American Institute of Architects Portland Chapter from 1996 to 2000.

Dennis Wilde
Wilde has been active in construction and real estate development since 1967. Prior to joining GED in 1997 as a senior project manager, Wilde was the vice president of a large regional construction company. His current responsibilities include feasibility studies, management of the pre-construction and construction process, tenant improvement coordination and overall project management. In addition to his construction background, Wilde has more than 20 years of experience in urban planning and design. His education includes master’s degrees in both architecture and city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania. Wilde is also active as a board member of The Oregon Natural Step.
Panel Coordinator: Brannon Lobdell

Resource Mining
Steel columns and beams, aluminum windows, stone sculptures and building facades and copper roofs are everyday examples of building materials extracted from the earth. Their extraction has a great impact on the natural environment. The mining industry is often criticized but what are the options? This panel will discuss the extent of the mining industry’s environmental impact and how this impact can be mitigated.

Panelists:
Reese Hastings
Hastings is a geologist and attorney with Pincock, Allen & Holt in Seattle. He is a member of the Washington State Geologist Licensing Board and has worked with the Northwest Mining Association.

Ben Mundie
Mundie is a geologist with the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) and has been working in Oregon for eight years regulating the state’s mine industry. One of DOGAMI’s chief concerns is protection of water resources. Prior to coming to Oregon, Mandie worked for fifteen years in mine reclamation planning, contract management and construction supervision for abandoned mines in Montana. Mundie has a Bachelor of Science in geology from the University of Montana.

Mark H. Reed
Reed is a professor of geology at the University of Oregon, where he has taught since 1979. His areas of expertise are geochemistry of aqueous-gas-mineral systems and ore deposits. Reed received his Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Nat Parker
Parker is a Wilderness Conservation Associate with the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG) and specializes in forest and public land issues. He advocates for permanent wilderness protection through the Oregon Wild Campaign. He also supports protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling through outreach to Oregon’s congressional delegation and through work with a broad-based coalition.
Panel Coordinator: Don Titus

Urban Public Transportation & Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Gasoline and diesel fueled vehicles are major contributors to air pollution. Their effect on environmental health can be minimized by increased development and use of sustainable domestic energy sources and public transportation systems. The panelists will discuss current governing policies affecting transportation planning, recent examples of city transportation plans, including Eugene’s TransPlan. We will also have a chance to build a solar powered miniature car or bus.

Panelists:
Michael Jordon
Jordan is a member of the American Hydrogen Association. He will speak about the new wave of hybrid electric cars, as well as the status of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. He has published several articles about creating a hydrogen economy.

Panel Coordinator: Cassidy Maione

Green Urbanism: Water in the City
This panel will present concepts and projects that integrate the environmental functions of water within the built fabric of cities. Panelists will present and lead a discussion about their work with water at the urban design scales of a city, a neighborhood and a street.

Panelists:
Ron Kellett
Kellett is an architect and associate professor of Architecture whose work focuses on the urban design and environmental dimensions of neighborhood scale planning and design. He is co-author of “ Green Neighborhoods: Planning and Design Guidelines for Air, Water and Urban Forest Quality” and co-director of the neighborhoods LAB at the University of Oregon.

Kelley Canode
Canode completed her master’s degree in community and regional planning from the University of Oregon Department of Planning Public Policy and Management in 2000. Her final master’s project analyzed the impact of street-scale design decisions on the urban environment. Her research contributed to the City of Portland’s METRO Green Streets Handbook and resulted in a Trees for Green Streets manual that is currently being published by METRO. She is currently an assistant transportation planner at METRO, working on alternative transportation mode planning.

Charles Kelley
Kelley is an architect and senior urban designer with Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership. His 17 years of experience has been interdisciplinary, combining architectural and planning disciplines for projects with varying scopes and clients. These projects include preserving rural town character, redeveloping brownfield sites in downtown and suburban neighborhoods where the urban design supports community plans. He has a Master of Architecture degree and Urban Design Certificate from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts. He has a Bachelor of Arts in architecture from the University of Washington.

Panel Coordinator: Ryan Kanteres

Track 2
Materials + Techniques

Living Systems Revealed
The Living Systems panel focuses on the use of ecological processes as a model for innovative technologies and progressive site designs that invigorate degraded systems. Topics include soil remediation, habitat enhancement and water quality in the context of public places.

Panelists:
Marc Companion
Companion is the education coordinator at Ocean Arks International, a non-profit organization founded by John and Nancy Todd to develop and market new technologies for living lighter on the planet. At Ocean Arks, Companion designs and builds educational ecosystems, teaches ecological design, develops curriculum and educational programs for schools and environmental organizations, and helps people learn to create sustainable and livable communities. For four years, Companion has assisted John Todd with his courses on Ecological Design and Living Technologies at the University of Vermont.

David Elkin
Elkin has a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon and is a project designer for Greenworks. He has a GIS background (Geographic Information Systems), and while in school he obtained five years of relevant maintenance experience working for the University of Oregon Physical Plant. Elkin’s primary responsibilities at GreenWorks include planting and irrigation design, GIS production and network administration.

Panel Coordinator: Ryan Carlson

Italian Design Build
Presentation by Jonathan Ferrari & Giovanni Sidari
Jonathan Ferrari and Giovanni Sidari are second year Master of Architecture students at the University of Oregon who spent three months of independent study in the Aspromonte Mountains of Southern Italy. Their site is a family-owned agricultural compound, or Casala, about 30 minutes up-slope from crystal clear water and clean beaches. The house is in critical disrepair. The theory is that small-scale interventions contribute to a process of healing and transformation. Little by little the house will become a self-sustaining complex where people can grow their food, collect precious water and set upa a system for generating power. Eventually, the house will stand alone, uninhibited by “the grid” and become a beautiful symbol of what architecture should be.


Northwest Ecobuilding
This panel features three ecobuilders who are active in the Northwest. While green architecture describes architecture that puts a special emphasis on energy efficiency, the terms “ecobuilding” and “natural building” describe a building approach that includes energy concerns but also adds the use of low-impact and natural materials such as adobe, cob and straw. Panelists will show brief slide presentations describing their work. There will be discussion of techniques and materials, as well codes, safety, and community involvement. This will be followed by a panel discussion based around questions from the audience.

Rob Bolman
President of the Eugene, Oregon chapter of the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild, Bolman is completing the most environmentally innovative house in Eugene (possibly in the entire state). His interest in natural building materials is combined with a dedication to create a better world.

Mark Lamberth
Lamberth has been a professional carpenter for 10 years, focusing especially on cob and natural building. He has taught numerous cob workshops around the Pacific Northwest, including previous H.O.P.E.S. conferences. Lamberth is the executive director of the Natural Building Collaborative, a non-profit group working to research and refine modern natural techniques.

Greg Marcuese
Marcuese is an eco builder from the River Farm near Bellingham, Wa. He has served as an intern at the School of Natural Living and currently works with SunRay Kelly, an ecobuilder who is well-known for his wild, organic designs. Marcuese has presented his natural building slide shows at the Natural Builders Colloquium, Evergreen Sustainability Conference and Fairhaven College.

Marc Tobin
Tobin is currently pursuing a master’s degree in community and regional planning at the University of Oregon. He is primarily interested in planning for ecologically sustainable communities.

Panel Coordinator: Mark Tobin

Climate Change: The Science and the Solution
It is impossible to overstate the importance of global warming awareness. No other issue threatens our planet with such dramatic, far-reaching impacts, and no other issue is so clearly a worldwide problem. At the same time, many promising solutions to global warming are local initiatives that we can control. This unique father and son team will explain and explore both the science of global climate change and the political and technological solutions in practice in Oregon and internationally. We will consider practical decisions, design strategies and incentives that will help create a clean energy future that can stop global climate change.

Panelists:
Dr. Jack Dymond
Dr. Dymond, professor emeritus at Oregon State University’s College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences, has worked for more than 30 years as a marine geochemist, studying the chemical and geological processes of the oceans. He has studied oceanic environments around the planet, most recently in Antarctica, and led an exploration of the bottom of Crater Lake using the one-person submersible, Deep Rover. Because the oceans hold the majority of the Earth’s carbon dioxide, Dr. Dymond’s study of marine geochemistry has given him a about its effects. Dr. Dymond will present evidence that climate disruption in the form of global warming is already happening and that its continuation will have grave consequences for human society and the natural world. He concludes that because this is a human-caused problem, we can alter our path and create a society that is more supportive of the human spirit.

Christopher Dymond
Dymond has a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics from Oregon State University and a master’s degree in building systems engineering from the University of Colorado. He received a fellowship at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to work on performance models of solar air heaters and energy codes. He worked for three years with the American Samoa Power Authority on energy conservation and energy codes. Since his return to Oregon in 1996, Dymond has worked in support of Oregon’s energy codes, developing support materials for jurisdictions and conducting training for the state of Oregon as an energy analyst. He currently works for the Oregon Office of Energy.

Jocelyn Z. Eisenberg
As a graduate student of landscape architecture, Eisenberg is interested in creating healthy regenerative places. Her interest in wind, hydro and solar system design was piqued at Real Goods’ Solar Living Center and carries over at the University of Oregon. As author and manager of the EMU solar project she hopes to contribute to the production of clean energy on campus while raising awareness of the issues of energy conservation and renewable energy. Eisenberg received her Bachelor of Art from Reed College in studio arts and is currently writing her master’s thesis, “Renewable Energy in Landscape Design: The Machine is the Garden.”

Panel Coordinator: Jocelyn Z. Eisenberg


History as an Asset
The panel will address the relationship between historic preservation and sustainability. In recent decades a variety of issues have arisen which are revealing interesting ties between the worlds of historic preservation and ecological design. Preservation of landscapes, re-use of existing embodied energy in buildings, and downtown revitalization as an alternative to suburban sprawl are just a few of the issues that create a symbiotic relationship between the two interests.

Panelists:
Robert Z. Melnick
Melnick is dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts and a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon. He is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and serves on the board of the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, a unit of the National Park Service. Melnick is co-wrote “Preserving Cultural Landscape in America” (Johns Hopkins.), and is co-author of the National Register Bulletin on rural landscapes. He holds a bachelor’s degree in American history from Bard College, 1970 and a master’s degree in landscape architecture from S.U.N.Y., Syracuse, 1975.

Donald L. Peting
Peting is currently director of the University of Oregon Historic Preservation Program. As an Associate Professor in Architecture, he has taught design, structures, and historic preservation technology classes. He has also served as Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University. He hosts a B.Arch from Illinois (1962) and an M.Arch from the University of California, Berkeley (1963). He is a registered architect in both Oregon and Washington.

Ihab Elzeyadi
Elzeyadi is an assistant professor at the University of Oregon (design, environmental control systems). He received a Bachelor of Architecture and a graduate degree in architectural engineering from Ain Shams University-Cairo. In 1996, Elzeyadi finished his Master of Science in Architecture from Pennsylvania State University and received a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2001. He has been a registered architect and engineer in Egypt since 1988.

Panel Coordinator: Phil Waugh

Track 3
Actualization + Inspiration

Regenerative Design:
Manufacturing Memory as a Regenerative Process in Reclaiming the Industrial Wasteland
This panel features two renowned landscape architects, Angela Danadjieva and Kristina Hill, and acclaimed artist Geraldine Ondrizek. They will explore the concept of landscape memory as it pertains to the social and ecological reclamation of our urban industrial wastelands and derelict spaces. The panel will address why landscape memory is important to the health and regeneration of place and how designers can integrate memory to enhance the reclamation process. Several projects completed by the panel participants will be described such as Emscher Park in Duisburg Nord, Germany, Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, Gasworks Park in Seattle and others.

Panelists:
Angela Danadjieva
See biography in Keynote Speaker section on page 7.

Kristina Hill
Hill’s current work is on developing urban design principles and prototypes that emphasize sustainability and ecological health. Her background includes work on landfills and contaminated sites in Europe and on the east coast of the United States. In the Pacific Northwest, the pressing issue is whether urban development can coexist with the salmon populations that pass through and live in urban waterways. Her research, consulting and teaching address this problem by altering the “skin” of the city to change the quality, quantity, and timing of water flows through an urban landscape.

Hill teaches undergraduate and graduate studios with an emphasis on understanding ecological processes in urbanizing regions. She uses landscape ecological concepts to help students perceive the city through a very different “lens” and links these concepts to the historical design vocabulary of landscape architecture and urban design through form. She is the director of the MLA program and also advises master’s theses in the department. She has created an on-line self-study course for design students to learn computing tools.

Geraldine Ondrizek
A member of Reed College’s studio art faculty since 1994, Ondrizek has exhibited her work throughout the United States: Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Pa., Matrix Gallery in Sacramento, Cal., Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado, Marylhurst College, Ore., and the Maryhill Museum. Her work has also been exhibited abroad, most recently at the Frauenkirche Modernische Kunst Galerie in Munich.
Ondrizek writes of her work: “It is a library of organic forms and their ghost images. The organizational system I have adopted refers back to a herbarium in which organic material has traditionally been catalogued...renderings were generated from rubbings of the living forms.”
Many of the pieces, which combine actual botanical materials with drawings and other markings, are sandwiched between pieces of glass or plexiglass, like the glass slides and cover slips used to preserve biological specimens. These are densely packed into a small room constructed within the exhibition, evoking a Renaissance collector’s chamber.

Panel Coordinator: Amy Houghton, Liska Clemence


Technology Driving Sustainable Design
It has been over 60 years since the silicon solar cell was first invented, yet photovoltaic technology continues to be considered “high-tech” and has not yet found widespread application. Designers must constantly sift through numerous catalogues of new materials and relatively untested technologies. The panel participants will discuss their individual approaches of creating sustainable designs from these available technologies. Private research, discussion groups, state and federal regulation and experimental designs are all possible solutions. Come and be a part of the vision for design in the 21st century.

Panelists:
Karen Davis Smith
Smith received her Bachelor of Science in architecture from the University of Wisconsin in 1994, and is now an architect at Boxwood Architects in Seattle - a firm renowned for its sustainable approach design. Smith co-founded the Sustainability Salon. This group has over 100 participants and meets monthly to discuss various sustainable issues and share sustainable ideas.  They have been meeting since the summer of 2001, and have discussed topics such as Sustainable Resources and Materials, Construction Recycling, Designing for Longevity, Habitat for Humanity Housing Charrette, Sustainable Cost Issues, and Biomimicry.  The group is interdisciplinary and made up of engineers, landscape architects, contractors and individuals from the City of Seattle.

Michael Hatten
Hatten is a principal in two architecture firms that are dedicated to efficiency in the built environment: Hatten/Johnson Associates, Inc. and SOLARC Architecture and Engineering, Inc. Over the past 20 years, he has managed and conducted energy analysis, design and construction projects on well over 30 million square feet of residential, commercial, and industrial space. Hatten was named the 1998 National Energy Manager of the Year for the lighting retrofit effort at Lane Community College.

Panel Coordinator: Jesse Garlick



Energy Concepts in German Architecture:
An overview of ecological building
Presentation by Bjorn Nelson
Not all energy efficient buildings express themselves as stereotypical “eco-architecture”. In Germany, even average, everyday buildings employ a high degree of ecological awareness. Through a broad survey of residential and office buildings, this presentation will examine a series of common strategies used by buildings to reduce energy consumption. Then Nelson will show how the energy concepts of several exemplary buildings integrate heating, cooling, ventilation and lighting need to improve their performance.

Bjorn Nelson
As a University of Oregon graduate student in architecture, Nelson spent the past year studying at the Universitaet Stuttgart. With the funds from the RTKL Travelling Scholarship, he concentrated his studies on ecological building practices in Germany.

Delivering the Message
This panel explores education and communication strategies for social and ecological topics. Panelists representing a broad range of disciplines will present examples and approaches to the design and distribution of media content. Featured media include magazine writing, print design, performance art, photography, video, animation and web design.

Panelists:
Carol Ann Bassett
Bassett teaches magazine writing, literary nonfiction and environmental writing in the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Nation, Time, Mother Jones, Conde Nast Traveler, the Los Angeles Times and numerous other national publications. Bassett has traveled extensively around the world as a journalist and educator. She conducted workshops in developing countries such as Nepal, Bolivia and Botswana. Two of her essays have been anthologized in the highly acclaimed American Nature Writing series. Her book, “A Gathering of Stones: Journeys to the Edges of a Changing World,” is a collection of personal narratives about traditional cultures and the environment. It is due out in September.

Leon Johnson
Johnson is currently an associate professor of art at the University of Oregon and designs and produces intermedia communications and events. He is the proprietor of The Long Bell Press and founding member of Creative Material Group. Johnson recently had digital images touring nationally in “Transcending Limits: Beyond Mainstream and Margin” and is the recipient of a Jackson Pollock/Lee Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting, a Yaddo Residency Fellowship and a Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant. He performed “Empire Postcards: My Colonial Father[s]” in England and Toronto in 1998, and “Faust/Faustus: A Duet For Devils” in the Uinted Kingdon during the summer of 2000.

Todd Kesterson
Since 1990 Kesterson has worked professionally in the fields of computer animation and video production on a wide range of projects for advertising, entertainment and educational purposes. His educational media work has been featured at SIGGRAPH, an international computer graphics conference, at Sea World, Fla., and on National Geographic television. Kesterson has also worked as a community outreach coordinator for the Applegate River Watershed council, as a multimedia educational designer for Oregon State University. He is currently a visiting assistant professor in the University of Oregon’s multimedia design program.


Chad Okrusch
Okrusch is a doctoral student in both the environmental science, studies, and policy (ESSP) and the communication and society programs at the University of Oregon. While earning his Master of Science in technical communication, Okrusch co-founded and eventually served as executive director of one of the EPA’s first new media visualization and communication studios at Montana Tech. His primary responsibilities revolved around information architecture, graphic design and interface design. Chad co-wrote a successful environmental justice grant aimed at creating a connected learning consortium of tribal colleges and U.S. universities including Michigan State, Dartmouth, Middlebury College and Montana Tech. His last new media project was a community web site that monitors the water levels in the highly toxic Berekely Pit—a defunct open pit copper mine in his home town of Butte, Mont.


Bill Ryan
Dr. Ryan is a designer, photographer and writer. He has been an NDEA fellow at the University of Wisconsin, a Kellogg fellow at Briar Cliff, a Mellon fellow at the University of Kansas, a Poynter Institute for Media Studies fellow, and a Fulbright fellow and senior lecturer at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Ryan has worked as a design consultant for Hinman Vineyards/Silvan Ridge Wineries, NPR, Apple Macintosh, Nissan, The Relief Nursery, Caterpillar, Oregon Humane Society, Primax and many breast cancer foundations. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Erstead, Jonathon Marshall Award, and he received Nissan/Chiat-Day’s “Outstanding Teacher of Advertising” award in ‘91, ‘92 and ‘93. He has written one book of poetry, “Reflections in a Circus Mirror,” and is currently finishing his third text, “Graphic Communications Today.”


Michael Annus
Annus has a long-standing interest in the cultures, histories, ecosystems and politics of the western United States. These interests are fundamental to his film and video work as are his studies in both cultural anthropology and cinema. He holds an MFA in Film and Video Production from the University of Iowa and an MA in Cultural Anthropology from Indiana University. He is particularly interested in films and videos that play with image, structure, and audience expectations and that explore the complex interconnections of animals (including humans), places and ideas. His film and video work has been screened at festivals and venues across North America, including recent screenings at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival and the Pacific Film Archives at Berkeley. Annus lives in Portland where he is a college instructor and video producer.

Panel Coordinator: Todd Kesterson