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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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What makes a home: a study of few homeless in Mumbai city

Housing and Typology
Aagam Shah, 2018


 Cities are formed by various forms of Home, but we differ to recognize only few of them which is actually the need. Moving away from the generic idea of Home one needs to understand that there are many different forms in the city that are Home to someone else. The idea of home in the city is different for everyone but we have failed to understand that and the definition for us has stayed only to BHKs (Bedrooms, hall and kitchen). Our such sense of space keeps us away from observing onto the spatial configuration of the “Non – Home” homes in the city which are possessed / shared / squatted / camped by the homeless. The spatial characters of these spaces shows the fragmental nature of it and how many such fragments constitute as a home for them. The following chapters will evidently prove that how people have made the city as their home in many different ways, and since it not being in a formalized manner we have termed them as “Homeless”. Even though the State coming up with unreasonable plans to relocate the Homeless out of the city, they have still survived in the nooks and corners of the city and have kept their social, economic and cultural circles intact. There can be solutions where they don’t have to be in social exclusion just to portray the City’s society Ideal. Going against the idea of declaring Homeless, let’s rather understand their multiple idea of home in the city and their social construct with the society. Let’s crave for some innovative and relevant ideas of homes for them. City has the potential to house both, it is up to us how much close do we keep them to us.



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