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The Ecological Design Center is proud to invite you to the 2006 HOPES Conference from April 13-16 at the School of Architecture & Allied Arts on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene.
The 2006 HOPES Conference will open with a keynote presentation by internationally acclaimed architect and structural innovator Shigeru Ban. The 49-year-old Ban is perhaps most famous for his development of paper tube structures, disaster relief works, and refined Modernist aesthetic. His major works include the Japan Pavilion for the Hannover Expo 2000 in Germany; Paper Art Museum and Paper Church in Japan; Paper Tube Arch for MoMA in New York; DIY disaster relief housing in Rwanda and Kobe, Japan; and the recently completed Nomadic Museum, a traveling work constructed almost entirely from mammoth paper columns and shipping containers.
In 2004, Ban received the Grande Medaille d'Or from the Academie d' Architecture and was named an honorary AIA fellow by the American Institute of Architects. He is also recipient of several World Architecture Awards—including the 2002 House of the Year Award (Naked House) and the 2000 Best Building in Europe (Japan Pavilion)—and he was named Japan’s Best Young Architect in 1999.
The theme of HOPES 2006 is "Permanence/Impermanence" and the conference will address the numerous ways in which sustainable design can be manifest today. In addition to Shigeru Ban's opening keynote, HOPES also has the honor of presenting keynotes from: Christine Macy and Sarah Bonnemaison, of the research-based design partnership Filum; Permaculture Institute founder Penny Livingston-Stark; and architect and professor Sergio Palleroni, winner of an AIA National Education Award. This year's conference will also include dozens of panel discussions and hands-on workshops, a Green Business Expo, Professional Showcase, 24-Hour Design Charrette, Speakers’ Dinner, and kidsHOPES activities.
ALSA, AIA and APA credits are available, as is academic credit through the University of Oregon. Homestay accommodations are available on a first-come, first-served basis, and entries into the Professional Showcase and Green Business Expo will be accepted until all slots have been filled. Please contact edc@uoregon.edu if you are interested.
HOPES 2006: Permanence | Impermanence
As a 21st-century culture, we alternately celebrate and decry ideals of permanence and impermanence. Irreversible blight, an enduring sense of place, exhaustible resources, resilient communities, disposable culture, and ephemeral footprints all relate to important questions facing ecological designers today. Furthermore, these issues challenge us in our roles as the architects, engineers, artists and citizens of tomorrow.
The 2006 HOPES Conference will explore this theme of permanence | impermanence with the goal of initiating a dialogue that expands our shared understanding of the ways in which sustainability can be created. Our goal is to engage the community in a three-day conversation relating to the philosophical and practical divide between permanent and impermanent design. Sustainability today means designing so as to make the greatest possible contribution while inflicting the least possible damage. But how can a doctrine of lightness generate significant architecture? How do temporary structures generate permanent social change? How can we, as designers and citizens, support temporary improvements while still seeking permanent solutions? And how can we ensure that our public spaces and communities are built to last, without doing irreversible harm?
At HOPES 2006, we will explore the potential benefits of creating an impermanent built environment that is responsive to a culture where technology, lifestyle & aesthetics rapidly become outdated. Conversely, we will discuss ways to create places with longevity that will be able to meet the needs of untold generations to come. We hope you will join us in April to address some of these questions, and many others.
What is HOPES?
Held every April since 1995, HOPES (Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability) works to promote deeper understanding and broader application of sustainable design principles. Presented annually by the Ecological Design Center, HOPES is the only ecological design conference in the country developed and managed entirely by students. Now in its 12th year, the conference has brought such luminaries as Sim Van der Ryn, Samuel Mockbee, James Hubbel, Angela Danadijieva, Michael Pyatok, Steve Badanes, Richard Register, David Orr, John Schaeffer and Clare Cooper Marcus to the University of Oregon campus.
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