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Designed as a comprehensive resource on spatial thinking, experimental pedagogy, and academic practices, this archive serves as a record for reference and critical analysis.

More than a traditional institutional repository, it is envisioned as an "Archive of Ideas," structured to mirror the conceptual and intellectual framework of SEA. The platform captures specific engagements, explorations, and pedagogical reorientations, expressing the school's distinct set of practices constituted by its students and teachers.

The collection encompasses intellectual articulations—from course books and objectives to studio briefs and lectures—alongside a documentation of student work, field studies, and thesis projects. Through this structure, the archive navigates complex inquiries into typologies, ontologies, and genealogies, while exploring themes of environment, urbanisation, futures, and ethics. It serves as a space for rethinking geographies and histories of type, offering the school's co-learning experiments and its ongoing articulation of space and form.

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COURSES AND ORIENTATIONS

SEA aims at developing localised and relevant knowledge that is capable of engaging with the world. Here articulations on theories of space, language and ethics are important. Students are capacitated with design vocabulary, tools, and methods that are developed at SEA. Contemporary questions are taken upfront and engaged with and specific courses are developed for this purpose. Towards this end, completely new courses on culture and built-form focusing on the histories and theories of space making in South Asia, repair and retrofitting of builtform as well as habitation, projections on the future, ethics, questions of language, emerging urbanization and its spatial demands, etc. are formulated. All of these new courses are informed through rigorous internal research that is conducted in the school.

2014-2015

2015-2016

2016-2017

2017-2018

2018-2019

2019-2020

2020-2021

2021-2022

2022-2023

2023-2024

2024-2025

2025-2026

Gendered Spaces

Allied Studies Vertical Studio
02nd-27th June 2025
Mario de Penha

Wood Working

Allied Studies Vertical Studio
02nd-27th June 2025
Sunil Jambhulkar, Pavan Vishwakarma

Critical Thinking

Allied Studies Vertical Studio
02nd-27th June 2025
Ruturaj Parikh (Studio Matter)

Building Change

Allied Studies Vertical Studio
02nd-27th June 2025
Sandhya Naidu Janardhan

Spatial & Technological History

Culture Studies Batch of 2024-2029
30th June-11th July 2025
Anuj Daga, Prasad Khanolkar

Interior Design

Specialization Vertical Studio
30th June-01st Aug 2025
Rashmi Dabir

Product Design

Specialization Vertical Studio
30th June-01st Aug 2025
Siddhesh Kadam (ITEM Workshop)

Some Assembly Required

Specialization Vertical Studio
30th June-01st Aug 2025
Dhruv Chavan

Building Resillient Futures

Specialization Vertical Studio
30th June-01st Aug 2025Sandhya Naidu Janardhan

Landscape Design

Specialization Vertical Studio
30th June-01st Aug 2025Ravindra Punde (Design Cell)

Computational Architecture

Batch of 2024-2029
14th July-15th Aug 2025Tushar Rajkumar, Dushyant Asher, Anuj Daga, Manasvi Patil

South Asian Architecture

Culture Studies Batch of 2023-2028
04th-15th Aug 2025Rupali Gupte, Richa Shah

Ethics

Culture Studies Batch of 2022-2027
04th-15th Aug 2025 Prasad Shetty

Research Methods

Culture Studies Batch of 2021-2026
04th-15th Aug 2025 Prasad Khanolkar, Apurva Talpade

Environment & Architecture

Batch of 2024-2029
18th Aug-10th Oct 2025Vastavikta Bhagat, Dipti Bhaindarkar, Milind Mahale, Saurabh Barde

What is a Police Station? - Genealogy of Institution

Batch of 2023-2028
18th Aug-10th Oct 2025Dushyant Asher, Rupali Gupte, Tushar Rajkumar, Manasvi Patil

Mass Inhabitation

Batch of 2022-2027
18th Aug-10th Oct 2025Prasad Khanolkar, Rohit Mujumdar, Richa Shah, Abhijit Ekbote

Studies of form as object, meaning, history and experience

Batch of 2025-2030
29th Sept-19th Dec 2025Apurva Talpade, Prasad Shetty, Kausik Mukopadhyay, Tamal Mitra, Vastavikta Bhagat

Architecture as building systems

Batch of 2024-2029
10th Nov-19th Dec 2025Milind Mahale, Dipti Bhaindarkar, Saurabh Barde, Abhijit Ekbote

Community & Builtform

Batch of 2023-2028
10th Nov-19th Dec 2025Anuj Daga, Rohit Mujumdar, Prasad Khanolkar, Richa Shah

Contemperory Architecture

Culture Studies Batch of 2021-2026
08th-19th Dec 2025All Mentors

World, Self, Art & Images

Culture Studies Batch of 2025-2030
05th-16th Jan 2026 Prasad Shetty

Utre: Culture & Built Form

Settlement Studies Batch of 2024-2029
05th-16th Jan 2026Rupali Gupte, Anuj Daga, Tushar Rajkumar, Manasvi Patil, Vastavikta Bhagat

Uppada: Environment & Built Form

Settlement Studies Batch of 2023-2028
05th-16th Jan 2026Prasad Khanolkar, Rohit Mujumdar, Dipti Bhaindarkar, Richa Shah

Baiyora: Economy & Built Form

Settlement Studies Batch of 2025-2030
19th-30th Jan 2026Apurva Talpade, Prasad Shetty, Milind Mahale, Vastavikta Bhagat

Spatial Theory

Culture Studies Batch of 2024-2029
19th-30th Jan 2026Rupali Gupte, Richa Shah

Urbanisation

Culture Studies Batch of 2023-2028
19th-30th Jan 2026Rohit Mujumdar

Light Pavillion: Studies of form & space as geometry, forces, material & systems

Batch of 2025-2030
16th Feb-03rd Apr 2025Dushyant Asher, Anuj Daga, Vastavikta Bhagat, Anshu Choudhri

Rethinking a School: Type in cluster, behaviour, meaning & experience

Batch of 2024-2029
16th Feb-03rd Apr 2025Rupali Gupte, Milind Mahale, Tushar Rajkumar, Dhruv Chavan

Building making & management

Batch of 2023-2028
16th Feb-03rd Apr 2025Dipti Bhaindarkar, Abhijit Ekbote, Mythili Shetty, Gauri Joshi

Diagram Studio:
Language of Space

Class of 2020-2025,
14th June-30th July 2021 Anuj Daga, Dushyant Asher, Sagarika Suri

Resources, Flows and Systems: Artist Residency in Powai

Class of 2019-2024,
14th June-30th July 2021Sabaa Giradkar, Malak Singh Gill, Faizan Khatri, Shrikar Bhave

Emerging Urbanisation: Covid and Emergence

Class of 2018-2023,
14th June-30th July 2021Rohit Mujumdar, Shreyank Khemlapure, Apoorva Sharma, Shivani Shah

Curation & Exhibition Design: Living in a Metaphor

Allied Studies Vertical Studio
02nd-27th Aug 2021
Anuj Daga

Drawing Out the Everyday: The Scribe And The Labyrinth

Allied Studies Vertical Studio
02nd-27th Aug 2021
Apurva Talpade

Miniature As World/ Miniature As Method

Allied Studies Vertical Studio
02nd-27th Aug 2021
Dipti Bhaindarkar

Material Experiments: Digital Anatomies & Material Autonomies

Allied Studies Vertical Studio
02nd-27th Aug 2021
Dushyant Asher

Laputa, the Flying Castle

Allied Studies Vertical Studio
02nd-27th Aug 2021
Kausik Mukhopadhyay

Product Design: Useful and Unuseful Objects

Allied Studies Vertical Studio
02nd-27th Aug 2021
Milind Mahale

Urban Studies: In a City, Parts don’t make the Whole

Allied Studies Vertical Studio
02nd-27th Aug 2021
Prasad Shetty

Architectures of Exfoliation

Allied Studies Vertical Studio
02nd-27th Aug 2021
Rohit Mujumdar, Vastavikta Bhagat

Bricoleurs/Bricoleuses: Bricolage as Method

Allied Studies Vertical Studio
02nd-27th Aug 2021
Rupali Gupte

Environment As A Practice of Care

Allied Studies Vertical Studio
02nd-27th Aug 2021
Sabaa Giradkar

Housing in India’s Second Cities

Allied Studies Vertical Studio
02nd-27th Aug 2021
Shreyank Khemlapure

Orientation: Reading Hamzanama

Class of 2021-2026
30th Aug-29th Oct 2021 Apurva Talpade, Prasad Shetty, Kausik Mukopadhyay, Vastavikta Bhagat, Tamal Mitra

Studies in Form: Logic of Form and Movement in Insects

Class of 2021-2026
30th Aug-29th Oct 2021 Apurva Talpade, Prasad Shetty, Kausik Mukopadhyay, Vastavikta Bhagat, Tamal Mitra

Type, pattern & Material Phenomenologies: Home in a Forest, SGNP

Class of 2020-2025
13th Sept-29th Oct 2021 Milind Mahale, Rupali Gupte, Samir Raut, Anand Sonecha

Technological Sensoriums

Class of 2019-2024
13th Sept-29th Oct 2021 Dushyant Asher, Anuj Daga, Amol Patil, Shrikar Bhave

Housing - New Questions

Class of 2018-2023
13th Sept-29th Oct 2021 Shreyank Khemlapure, Rohit Mujumdar, Sudipta Iyer, Rajeev Thakkar

Spatiality of Future

Class of 2017-2022
13th Sept-29th Oct 2021 Ravindra Punde, Sabaa Giradkar, Vastavikta Bhagat, Abhijit Ekbote, Neera Adarkar

Field Logics : Crafting a Shrine, Miriya

Class of 2021-2026
29th Nov-21st Jan 2022 Apurva Talpade, Prasad Shetty, Kausik Mukopadhyay, Vastavikta Bhagat, Tamal Mitra

System Ontologies

Class of 2020-2025
29th Nov-21st Jan 2022 Milind Mahale, Sabaa Giradkar, Malak Singh Gill

Systems, Details and Drawings: Textile Museum at Paithan

Class of 2019-2024
29th Nov-21st Jan 2022 Dipti Bhaindarkar, Samidha Kowli, Faizan Khatri, Abhijit Ekbote

Miriya: Economy and Builtform

Settlement Studies, Class of 2021-26
24th Jan-18th Feb 2022 Apurva Talpade, Prasad Shetty, Kausik Mukopadhyay, Tamal Mitra

Pangna: Culture and Built Environment

Settlement Studies, Class of 2020-25
24th Jan-18th Feb 2022 Rupali Gupte, Milind Mahale, Anuj Daga, Moomal Shekhawat

Loktak Lake: Environment and Builtform

Settlement Studies, Class of 2019-24
24th Jan-18th Feb 2022 Dipti Bhaindarkar, Sabaa Giradkar, Rohit Mujumdar, Dushyant Asher

Sewri Muflats: Environment and Builtform