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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 for Digital Nomads: A trace from conventional to emerging form of organisation

 Systems and Organisations
Shubham Gaikwad, 2018


The aim of the thesis is to establish the correlation between forms of organisation of work and built form with a special attention on the emergence of co-working spaces in the city of Mumbai. This is done through comparing field studies of a wide range of workspaces from the conventional forms like the factories and office spaces to the re-emergence of dispersed, small-scale and shared workspaces -commonly referred to as co-working spaces.

Co-working spaces are a recent phenomenon, in their current avatar,within the city of Mumbai with a history not longer than five years. These spaces cater to the young entrepreneurs, freelancers, creative professionals, lawyers and so on of the city. Two aspects that define these new enterprises are their inability to afford office spaces in the city and their dependence on internet. The economic impossibility of owning space has fostered the rental model of subletting of workspace and an ecology of shared spaces required for the ‘start-up’ enterprises to operate and thrive. The research tries to speculate future possibilities of workform in the city by comparing the shifts from conventional idea of work to the emerging idea of work



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Persistence of guilds in Pune’s inner city: old work forms, new contexts

Systems and Organisations
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Of Architectural markets: architecture of transactional points

Systems and Organisations
Prajyot Mulye, 2018

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