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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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Towards cellularization

Bodies in Space
Bindiya Waghela, 2020


Having stayed in a joint family, I experienced both the opportunities and obstacles of staying in a shared environment between the realm of discipline and rules to many merrymaking and joyful events.The dilemma of nostalgia and resistance often creates tricky and uncomfortable positions in the society which leads to first societies breaking into large communities, to joint families, to nuclear families and to single-hood within families.This process of Cellularization (act of division).

Which is reflected in the society through the builtform (physical environment) which houses these families with an  imagination of a homogeneous  community and does not reflect and takes care of the need of individuality of the person, which leads to various uncomfort in the house/ shared space. Giving rise to invisible, visible boundaries of aesthetics of mind and space, affecting the personal values, relationships, living environment, shared spaces, communities and further so.

So this thesis aims at making a fresh start and looking at home as an embryonic unit and reflecting on the ideas of a home as suggested by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard and various other writers, scholars, activists from a variety of fields in the book “The People,Place and Space Reader” to make sense of the makings and meanings of the world we inhabit.How people create and inhabit these micro worlds they create for themselves through claims, arrangements, daily habits, body postures, language, words, ideas etc. The idea to allow oneself to be at home within a home. The contention of the thesis is that each person within a household carves out one’s personal space in order to create a space of physical and mental comfort. The tracing of such a space is what I call “microcosm” - one which is real, and virtual at the same time.

And to conclude with how architecture allows the person to project one’s individuality in the physical fabric of a home and accommodates the differences of people without compromising on the intimacy or togetherness spatially.


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Choreography between body and space


Bodies in Space
Aparajita Bhowmick, 2020

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Performative bodies and space



Bodies in Space
Khushi Bagrecha, 2023

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Perception and interstices: spatial transformations in public spaces post disruption

Bodies in Space
Nishith Parulekar, 2023

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Shared personals: manifestation of the personal into the shared

Bodies in Space
Raksha Srivastava, 2020

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Sociality of architectural institutions


Bodies in Space
Shruti Nikam, 2023

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