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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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Neighbourhoods as networks: work and living in Mumbai’s work-based neighbourhoods

Enterprise
Divya Agarwal, 2019


Mumbai sheher hain yeh. Kuch bhi ho sakta hain idhar.

Framed against the contemporary backdrop of the large, master-planned urban renewal schemes and housing redevelopment projects in Mumbai that often displace people or remain incomplete for long time periods. I propose to explore how the lens of networks of work and living shape workbased neighbourhoods contributes to our understanding of them. Growing up in a work-based neighbourhood of Grant Road introduced me to the efficiency of these spaces in Mumbai.

I have chosen to conduct case studies of four work-based neighbourhoods in Mumbai viz., Colaba Koliwada based on fishing activity of the indigenous community, Jogeshwari tabela based on milk production, Zaveri Bazaar based on bullion trade and manufacturing and Coalsa Bunder based on small-scale ship-breaking activities. The geographies of each of the case studies is different from the other.

I advance three arguments through this dissertation. First, shift from a ‘container’ understanding to a relational understanding. Second, how the shifts of economies have occurred over time. Third, clearing of the ‘mess’ of
these neighbourhoods also loses its dense networked patterns. I propose to explore the implications of seeing the neighbourhood as a series of overlapping networks in understanding them and framing relevant questions in their realm. It will also help the residents get a different perspective of urban renewal schemes




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