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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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Of Queering Households

Housing and Typology
Trisha Salvi, 2018


The nuclear family consisting of a heterosexual couple and their two biological children might be the normative idea of a family for many. Indian mainstream media and policy cater to this safe image almost exclusively. However, the reality of households in middle-class contemporary Mumbai is changing. While this change can be attributed to a broader economic upheaval, there are other subtler shifts that are influencing this multiplicity of household types to emerge. This study is an investigation into the various queering family forms that exist and are rapidly emerging in Mumbai and the kinds of spaces these households create when forced to fit into a normative apartment structure. There is a gap between the functioning of all families today and the normative housing type in the city, the apartment. This dissertation aims to explore the transformations in household structures in contemporary Mumbai and the spatial house forms they generate. The objectives are to map the manner in which these transformation manifest physically in space and subsequently explore the new housing typologies that are relevant to queering households.



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What makes a Home? A study of homeless people in Mumbai city

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