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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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The spatiality of urban mobilities

Mobility and Publics
Abhinav Pahade, 2020


The city is a phenomenon, produced in movement. City forms can be viewed as sediments of actions and movements, and the consolidation of these allows for the production of varied spatialities. A different construct of the city exists in people's minds, based on the mobilities they perceive the city through - which can be understood as their spatiality of mobility. Leaning on phenomenological ideology, we understand that an individual’s identity always affects how they perceive the world around them - therefore, attention is consciously drawn to the role of the individual and their identity, throughout this study. Using a framework to understand the interdependencies of the city, its spaces and the multiple mobilities it contains, we can establish a fundamental link between the role of perception and an individual’s lived experiences.

This paper explores the question, “How do contemporary mobilities shape our spatiality and experience of the urban everyday?". The study uses data collected from social experiments, interviews and extended interactions conducted with a set sample of Mumbai city dwellers chosen from across spectrums of age, gender and socioeconomic classes - allowing for inferences and comparisons between spatialities based on identity. The research method was designed to help reveal how the same urban space can instigate varied experiences for the same individual, depending upon the rate at which they conduct their mobility.

The research uncovers how varying speeds alter the extent to which our identities play a role in shaping our experiences. The data collected, hints at the impact of speed on our sensory capabilities and registry which arguably results in spatialities across identities, homogenising at higher rates of mobility. The study positively reveals the role of speed in shaping our spatiality.


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Highway urbanization: architecture of flux, uncertainty and anticipation

Mobility and Publics
Ankita Teli, 2020

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Street affordance: a case in Amravati

Mobility and Publics
Arnav Mundhada, 2022

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The politics of commons


Mobility and Publics
Ashi Chordia, 2020

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Upgrading roads: transforming edge affordances

Mobility and Publics
Bharvi Shetye, 2022

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City undone: fragmenting the narrative

Mobility and Publics
Maitreyee Rele, 2020

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Highway urbanization in Chiplun


Mobility and Publics
Ninad Thatte, 2022

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Suburban streets: claims and affordances

Mobility and Publics
Riddhi Shah, 2022

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(Inter-)active spaces


Mobility and Publics
Saloni Vora, 2020

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From the streets: behaviour and experience

Mobility and Publics
Samruddhi Pawar, 2022

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Street as a carnival


Mobility and Publics
Simran Panchal, 2020

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