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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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Story space

Of temporalities
Ria Das, 2019


Story becomes space and spaces become stories. There is interdependence between them and have a dialectical relationship. Spaces get produced through interaction of stories and stories get produced through interaction of space. Hence, this thesis is titled ‘Storyspace’.

Spaces hold the power to transport people in time by virtue of invoking memory and emotion that have specific associational registers. In living space, people translate them into stories living is not  merely a linear process, it is inherently layered and complex. Stories allow this translation to happen easily through narratives. This thesis aims to understand architecture as narrative that spatializes itself which we come to inhabit through experience and further understanding the mechanics of storytelling. Therefore, I try to establish a relationship between the narrative and space/s by studying four basic forms of the narrative, which are commonly used to tell a story.

Using this research, I will be looking at ‘storyspace’ and what other kinds of connections are formed along with studying the factors that affect the relationship between a narrative and a space. In order to represent this interrelated, complex and layered relationship, I will use the mode of diagramming.




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

Of temporalities
Aurea Dcruz, 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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Architecture and memory: practice and selfing of city spaces

Of temporalities
Swaraj Dhuri, 2019
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