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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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Gendering in public spaces: a look into how women perceive, navigate and occupy spaces

Difference and Urban Space
Shivani Dave, 2019


More often than not, people tend to organize themselves in a space, based on their social group, familiarity to one another, and comfort in that space. This organization, or social form, is affected by a number of factors, one of which is gender.

Gender, simply, is an awareness of one’s own body. It is a person’s internal sense of self, largely influenced by their family, society and surrounding environment. Each body, with its own social and cultural context, will experience space differently. My interest in doing this research arises from the awareness and slight frustration I have from personal experiences that dictate how I conduct myself in certain spaces. Certain implicit rules of behavior in public spaces, actions of self-surveillance and discipline, are imparted to anyone growing up to be a “respectable” woman.

“Appropriate” rules regarding dressing, talking and moving in everyday spaces are memorized by us, and go on to dictate how much freedom we exercise in these spaces. While everyone may be indifferent towards gendering on various levels, effects of gendering are largely felt by women navigating public spaces, influencing how we behave in the same. These behaviors generally arise from being uncomfortable in spaces, due to the dominating presence of one gender group. Through various experiences of our own, and that of our mothers and peers, we adopt different methods of using spaces.

This dissertation aims to understand how women perceive, navigate and occupy spaces that we frequent. Through field studies of street markets, municipal markets and shopping malls, it further aims to disclose the various configurations women tend to use these spaces in.



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