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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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Architecture of a monument: Vasai fort

Memory and Belonging
Chinmayh Kadwadkar, 2018


The thesis looks at the engagement of the local community, settlement and the city with the built form of the monument, in the case of the Vasai Fort. It maps the spatial usage of the fort by different user groups, by closely looking at the various interfaces offered by the existing structure. The thesis studies nuances of claims and the nature of habitability, which are identified through fieldwork. It also discusses conservation, to preserve these existing  relationships and the built form as against conservation in the conventional sense. Therefore, the thesis focuses on conserving the relationship of the built form to allow engagement with different user groups and exploring the possibilities of new interventions.



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Spatialities of everyday heritage


Memory and Belonging
Aashika Vijaykar, 2020

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Galalelya jaga ("गाळलेल्या जागा"): overlaps of memory and home

Memory and Belonging
Aditi Bhandari, 2024

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Remembering ghar: continuities of memory

Memory and Belonging
Anika Pugalia, 2024

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Architecture and memory: remembering home in involuntary dislocation

Memory and Belonging
Dhruv Chavan, 2018

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On Sindhi refugees: making home in Jalgaon


Memory and Belonging
Khushboo Tejwani, 2024

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Retrofitted domesticities


Memory and Belonging

Nikunj Dedhia, 2020

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Architecture and healing: civil war inversion of public space Borella, Colombo

Memory and Belonging
Rutu Kelekar, 2018

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Spatiality of remembrance: encounters between the native and urban

Memory and Belonging
Tanishqa Rodrigues, 2020

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