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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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Interpretative capacities of builtform

Publics and Spaces
Shachi Shah, 2019


 The image of any built form is often associated with the intent (in terms of the function) it was built with. This provides for a limited imagination of the space. However, there are certain kinds of forms that allow one to imagine or be multiple ‘selves’ and do multiple things. For any space to have such an image, it requires to be seen in various different ways. Spaces which allow the most involvement and interaction between people and elements are ‘Public Spaces’. Hence, for the purpose of this thesis, I chose to specifically look at Public spaces. The capacity of built form to appear in multiple stories and allow multiple ways of seeing it is what I call, its ‘Interpretative Capacity’. What is imagination of space? And how does the imagination occur? The triggers that cause and/or influence imagination have been explored through broader ideas of ‘Analogons’ and the idea of ‘The Self’. Using these as tools, this thesis aims at understanding their relationship with the interpretative capacity of built form and hence being able to develop strategies where public spaces are able to accommodate and hold multiple people and their imaginations. Further, through these concepts, 3 spaces, Bandra fort, Worli fort and Shivaji Park have been evaluated in terms of their architectural differences, the different activities taking place on site and the built form affording those activities. Through a series of unstructured interviews, ideas of certain imaginations have been put together. Through the analysis of these public spaces, key characteristics of the built form that determine the interpretative capacity of it, have been derived. Higher the interpretative capacity, higher the number of imaginations possible.




Read also under ‘Publics and Spaces’:

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Enclosed opens


Publics and Spaces
Akshada Dhamapurkar, 2021
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Urban grounds


Publics and Spaces
Alisha Jain, 2021
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Food institutions: spatial and social networks

Publics and Spaces
Chetasvi Patel, 2024
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Crowds and publics


Publics and Spaces
Gunjan Shah, 2022
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Spaces of dissent/protest



Publics and Spaces
Maryam Sheikh, 2021
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Changing publics and the making / emergence of new cultural spaces


Publics and Spaces
Neel Shah, 2022
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Narratives of public line in Asar Mahal: histories, events and everyday

Publics and Spaces
Nisha Shinde, 2024
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The architecture of public spaces



Publics and Spaces
Ritu Naik, 2021
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Architecture of repose: characteristics and perceptions of open spaces

Publics and Spaces
Rushabh Dedhia, 2019
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Aesthetics of erasure



Publics and Spaces
Sakshi Sawant, 2022
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"open" to "public" spaces in Amravati


Publics and Spaces
Sapna Chopda, 2024
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Public as assemblage in Sharjah

Publics and Spaces
Tanushree Bhagwat, 2024
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