*South America Project (SAP): Hinterland Urbanisms - Symposium and Network Launch* The South America Project (SAP) is a trans-continental applied research network that proactively endorses the role of design within rapidly transforming geographies of the South American Continent. SAP specifically focuses on how a spatial synthesis best afforded by design can provide alternative physical and experiential identities to the current spatial transformations reshaping the South American Hinterland, in particular fast paced modes of resource extraction and an unprecedented regional integration at a continental scale (primarily through roads, fluvial corridors, and telecommunication networks). Launched by Felipe Correa and Ana María Durán, with the support of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the project brings together a broad host of academic institutions, scholars and designers from diverse fields, in order to create a projective platform that can allow for architecture and the diverse disciplines affiliated to the constructed environment to actively partake in proposing more comprehensive models of urbanization for South America. For more information about SAP, the symposium schedule, and the event’s speakers please see the link below. *http://www.sap-network.org/2011/08/south-america-project-hinterland.html* Friday, October 7th and Saturday, October 8th* Stubbins Room, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge* Contact: sapnetwork.blog(a)gmail.com