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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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Environment and habitation

Architecture of Care
Abhishek Nerkar, 2021


Much of the current discourse on ‘environment’ is centered around the idea of nature, flora and fauna. But in architecture and the crafting of space, it becomes important to think of it as a continuum of spaces and forces acting on it. The built form is seen as a shelter and an envelope for human inhabitation, that segregates one from the forces surrounding it. For this purpose, the thesis shall focus on the environment as a set of interactions, networks and flows working cohesively with the built form. It also focuses on how these flows significantly impact everyday practices and derive design principles which not only adapts, evolves, and responds to the flux in the environment but also balances and enhances the flows and forces for good habitable conditions.

These environmental ideas are closely related to the building practices, materials and the context of the built form. Certain materials and the way they are put together, work with the environmental flows and not divert them. This correlation becomes more apparent in vernacular houses. As case studies, 4 residential buildings in Pimpalner, near Dhule, in the northwestern part of Maharashtra give an in-depth reading of interrelated environmental flows and their effects on everyday practices. Apart from the flora or fauna, the study looks at the building inhabitants, their practices, behaviors, experiences of light, heat, humidity and breeze to be part of the flows.

This sets up a basis for designing and formulating spaces that incorporate not just physical aspects but are more visceral in nature. They become a continuum, balancing and enhancing flows to sync the lived experience to the environment.




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Devicing home: from aji sunte ho to alexa

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Technosocieties: in the early second millenium

Mediatized Environments
Dannah Desouza, 2019
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Screened spaces


Mediatized Environments
Eshan Pradhan, 2019
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“switch”ed city: architecture of mediatise sensory hardware

Mediatized Environments
Kalpita Salvi, 2020
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When is digital in space?


Mediatized Environments
Ronak Soni, 2021
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Spatiality of publicness and new media

Mediatized Environments
Tanvi Savla, 2020
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Morphed households as an impact of the digital

Mediatized Environments
Vikram Veeravalli, 2021
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