Hi all,
Ben Spencer is a UW affiliate associate professor now based on Kathmandu, Nepal. He is running a study abroad program in Kathmandu in Fall 2019, for both undergraduate and graduate students. Details are below. Ben is trained as a landscape architect, but he’s also an inventor, and his study abroads are very much about building things.
InterAction Nepal | Design, Development, Global Health | Fall | 2019
InterAction Nepal is an immersive, interdisciplinary study abroad program offered with the support of the UW Department of Landscape Architecture, the JSIS South Asia Center Nepal Studies Initiative, the Department of Global Health and Traction | Nepal. The program will challenge you to delve into contemporary issues surrounding urban development in the Kathmandu Valley and respond to them at a local scale through community-based human centered design, project implementation and assessment. You will work with local students and residents of an underserved community to design and build a small-scale intervention in community infrastructure and evaluate project impacts on human and environmental health. You will also have the opportunity to pursue your own research interests through independent study. Program activities include lectures and discussions, organizational site visits, field trips within and outside the Kathmandu Valley, community meetings/workshops and hands-on design/fabrication/construction.
Information Sessions:
Gould Hall, Rm 102
Thursday, January 31st @ 12 noon
Friday, February 8th @ 12 noon
Program Brochure / Applications:
Please visit the UW Study Abroad application portal here.
Applications are due Friday, February 15th
Contact:
Ben Spencer
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Benjamin Spencer
Affiliate Associate Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture
University of Washington