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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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Body and space: how does behaviour of a body change the sense of space

Of temporalities
Astrid Fernnandes 2019


The focus on the implications of architecture over human body have led architects to concentrate on developing ways to control a body’s mood, movement and experience within it. Although if we consider it to be a cause and effect relationship, certain kind of spaces would bring about certain behaviour which intern would have its implications on that space. This thesis focuses to analyse these implications. Human behaviour is an interplay between cognition, emotion and actions. Out of which action is the only thing that can be observed directly. Therefore, in order to understand how different behaviours have different effects on space, I choose to look at bodies performing various acts while in the “Act of waiting”. The sites I have chosen are waiting areas like the waiting hall at a railway station, a hospital waiting room and a labour junction where people wait for jobs of daily wages. The different acts performed while waiting produce either sense of porosity or boundary, hence defining the way others navigate through that space. This is then analysed by creating diagrams of space influenced by movement, seen through the lens of the concept developed by William Forsythe considering movement to be intangible, felt space that comes to define our experiences and comprise invisible lines between the bodies and space.




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Of temporalities
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Mechanics of appropriation: government housing quarters


Of temporalities
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Of temporalities
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Architecture and memory: practice and selfing of city spaces

Of temporalities
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