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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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Organisational architectures of agricultural transaction points

 Systems and Organisations
Prajyot Mulye, 2018


How have the emerging chains of agricultural produce manifested in the architecture of agricultural transaction points? If we consider scene of contemporary Indian urbanization via food, this question is situated in the backdrop of the new chains of retail and supermarkets such as Reliance fresh and Nature’s Basket, online retail such as bigbasket, and new farmers markets, on the one hand, and the ongoing urban transition with sharp agrarian protests and social upheavals, on the other hand. Moving beyond existing architectural research that frames arguments by constructing extreme scenarios of the urban future, I propose that architectural practice, in India, could find it more fruitful to begin with the premise of understanding the emerging market chains and the architecture of their transactional points. Drawing on the approach of actor-network theory, I explore this proposition and research question through the five different types of market chains in the Mumbai region. I argue that the contemporary Indian metrocity such as Mumbai presents multiple chains of perishable agricultural produce and their corresponding organisational and physical architectures of transactional points that compete with one another. These include: the architecture of micro-entrepreneurs, state corporatism, private conglomerate corporatism and village co-operative corporatism. My dissertation opens out the architectural questions to explore in the process of aligning with the latter.



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