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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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Time, households, and urban transition: stories from Sandor, Vasai 1985-2019

Of temporalities
Aurea Dcruz, 2019


I come from Vasai, which is a place with a unique character. Being born and brought up here, I’ve grown up listening to stories from elders about how life was lived earlier here. The character of a place is largely shaped by the nature of the men and women who have lived there, the structures they have dwelt in, the values they have upheld,  and the firm yet ever-changing cultural ethos that has forged ahead through its generations. Nestled close to Mumbai, Vasai comes across as a reluctantly developing town. It holds on to its rich historical importance as a strategic Portuguese port, its spiritual vibrancy, and its breath-taking natural beauty. Furthermore Vasai as a whole can be described as divided, between and country and the city.

Vasai exhibits a sense of fast development from rural, farmlands to a built urban context. In this process built form 0and relationships are transforming. Along with preserving points of reference and anchorage to the history and culture, there is also a need to gain more and change for better. Amidst this transformation the inhabitants of vasai seem to reflect a sense of loss and opportunity. The opportunity is of adapting to new forms entrepreneurship and the loss is of that of social space. This thesis focuses on understanding different ways architects can address this new temporalities of Entrepreneurial interest and social interest intersected in the exhisting builtforms of houses.




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

Of temporalities
Astrid Fernandes, 2019
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Hurried-ness



Of temporalities
Devesh Uniyal, 2019
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Mechanics of appropriation: government housing quarters


Of temporalities
Megha Jhawar, 2019
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Story space


Of temporalities
Ria Das, 2019
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Architecture and memory: practice and selfing of city spaces

Of temporalities
Swaraj Dhuri, 2019
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