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Keynote speakers for the 2004 HOPES conference are Edward L. Blake, Jr., Brock Dolman, Ananya Roy, and Eric Lloyd Wright.

Edward L. Blake, Jr. received his landscape architecture degree from Mississippi State University. He has spent nearly three decades studying the landscape as a practitioner and educator and while directing the development of The Crosby Arboretum at Picayune, Mississippi. He is currently developing The Landscape Studio in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to nurture and enlarge the practice of landscape architecture in the rapidly developing Gulf South region. Blake's recent work reflects his journey of discovering and expressing natural and cultural phenomena through the landscape’s architecture.

Brock Dolman is Director of Occidental Arts and Ecology Center's
Permaculture, Basins of Relations, and Ecology Programs. He co-
instructs our School Garden, Basins of Relations, and permaculture-
related courses. Brock also co-manages the Center's biodiversity
collection, orchards and 70 acres of wildlands. Living up to his
specialized generalist nature, and rekindling the dwindling art of
the peripatetic natural historian, his experience ranges from the
study of wildlife biology, native California botany and watershed
ecology, to the practice of habitat restoration, education about
regenerative human settlement design, ethno-ecology, and ecological
literacy activism towards societal transformation.

Ananya Roy is Assistant Professor in the Department of City and
Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley where
she teaches in the fields of comparative urban studies and
development planning. Roy's recent book, City Requiem, Gender and the Politics of Poverty (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) shows how the city is produced through the hegemonies of class and gender. Situating Calcutta at a moment of liberalization, Roy reveals the distinctive spaces of a "communism for the new millennium": housing developments that emerge amidst the last paddy crops on the fringes of the city; overflowing trains that bring peasant women to urban informal labor markets in an everyday commute against hunger; the choreography of squatting and evictions through which land is settled and claimed. Roy shows how these processes of New Communism are located within a larger regulatory context of "unmapping" that affords the state great territorialized flexibility in land and housing transactions and perpetuates the vulnerability of the urban poor.

Eric Lloyd Wright is an architect and founder of Wright Way Organic
Resource Center in Malibu, CA. During Eric's early years in
architecture, he was an apprentice to his grandfather, Frank Lloyd
Wright and his father, Lloyd Wright. His portfolio includes the
restoration and renovation of Frank Lloyd Wright and Lloyd Wright
works as well as residences and institutional buildings of his own
design. Eric's current focus is on the evolution of Organic
Architecture and Green Building design. His design philosophy is
rooted in the integration of ecology, social responsibility and
beauty. Through Eric's years of design experience, he has developed
an understanding that it is not the physical walls and roof, but the
space within a building that forms its character - its soul. He gives
careful thought to a project's physical, social and spiritual
environment, with a focus on appropriate materials, quality,
craftsmanship, and careful detailing. Eric believes that one of the
most important aspects of the design process is the relationship
between the client, the site and the architect. It is the client and
site, together with the architect, that shape the design of a
project.

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