CapAsia is a unique field semester with national and international reputation. It provides an extraordinary opportunity to experience the socially, culturally, and historically different South Asia, and to develop a critical understanding of the participants' own cultures and environments. The program is open to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students with an interest in social and cultural aspects of urban spaces and built environments.

The theme is "Post-Tsunami Developments in South Asia." The "Planning to Learn" project will connect the disasters caused in Sri Lanka by the tsunami and in the USA by the hurricanes; the participants will study the responses to these by environmental planning and design professionals, policy makers, and the people themselves. The "Building to Learn" project will be carried out in a self-built neighborhood of India, in collaboration with SPA, Delhi. Stopovers include Penang (Malaysia) and Bangkok (Thailand).

For more information, visit:
http://www.capasia.net/v/announcement.htm

Inquiries: capasia@gmail.com
Applicaiton processing begins on May 31, 2007
and will continue until all positions are filled

Nihal Perera, PhD, Director, CapAsia
nperera@bsu.edu
Wes Janz, PhD, Co-Director, CapAsia
wjanz@bsu.edu