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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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Reimagining the transforming Basti

Housing and Typology
Shreyansh Gupta, 2018


The project focuses on the informal settlements and how to improve their habitability. The paper has been divided into six chapters. The paper starts by giving the overall background on the slums and types of interventions made for their betterment. Further, the paper articulates parameters for evaluation of these interventions. Five case studies have been studied where intervention have been made and they have been evaluated base don the parameters. It is found that of all the interventions including provision of common toilets, provision of separate toilets, up-gradation, site and services, redevelopment, and rehabilitation and resettlement, it appears that redevelopment, resettlement and provision of toilet are least effective.



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