Emerging Concepts for Point Haynisisoos

Nathaniel Corum is an architect, planner, and educator serving as Design Director with Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative. Following leadership roles with Indigenous Community Enterprises, Red Feather, and Architecture for Humanity, Corum and the SNCC team now collaborate with MASS Design Group on tribal community initiatives in North America. As a former Fulbright Scholar, Senior Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas Fellow, and Rose Architectural Fellow, he has pursued research and practice in culturally responsive design with over a dozen tribal community partners. Author of Building a Straw Bale House from Princeton Architectural Press, Corum's work includes showcasing exemplary native-to-place architecture through documentary film production, publications and the implementation of master plans, housing initiatives, community facilities, and ecological designs. He has helped to connect over 500 students to real-world, public-interest design workshops and projects. Corum's design work and process has been widely published and featured in international exhibitions. He holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin and an undergraduate Design Synthesis degree from Stanford University.

Tom Hampson began his career in planning and community economic development on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in 1973 where he and Michael J. Farrow created the Tribal Development Office, a fully integrated land use planning and community economic development arm of the Tribe. He was a founding member of the United Indian Planners Association. After developing businesses for the Tribe, he owned businesses of his own, ran a small business development center for Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, a small business incubator in “the hood” of Portland, and has helped Native nonprofit and for-profit organizations run better or run away ever since. Hampson did the foundational development work for the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission, Wallowa Band Homeland Project, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, and wrote and co-produced the multi-media exhibits for Tamastslikt Culture Institute for the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla, among many other projects. In December 2012 he retired after 12 years as executive director of ONABEN, a Native American Business Network. He is the principal author of ONABEN’s Indianpreneurship® Series — a story-based “how to” manual on starting and operating a family enterprise in Indian Country. At ONABEN he managed a two-year organizational development project for 10 Native CDFI’s which included the Taala Fund of Quinault Indian Nation.

John Koepke has over 35 years of professional experience in both private practice and academia. Along with his full-time responsibilities as a professor in the department of landscape architecture at the University of Minnesota, he is a principal in the firm Urban Ecosystems. Because of his Ojibwe heritage, Koepke has always had a significant interest in both Native American cultures and environmental science. This has led him to conduct landscape-based research on ancient Native American sites and work with tribal and other communities in pursuing teaching and design opportunities that focus on cultural interpretation, environmental education, ecological restoration, and reclamation. He currently teaches graduate and undergraduate level courses that focus on integrating ecological principles with artistic design thinking. Along with teaching studios he leads courses in construction technology and graphic representation.