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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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Cast(e) in space

Difference and Urban Space
Adwait Desai, 2021


This thesis intends to investigate the question- How does caste play a significant role in shaping the space and the life of people inhabiting it Through key readings it identifies key terms such as segregation, discrimination, lack etc., which set a lens for conducting the field study. Drawing narratives that are collected from the site through unstructured interviews was the second stage. To expand the scope of research, it covers three main areas of study- old houses in the village, contemporary(built in the last one and half decade) houses in the village and high income enclaves in the city to understand the transition in the idea of caste and its manifestation in space. The comparative studies of casts show that the intensity of segregation and consolidation of properties (land), gender and work based separation increases, whereas the ideas of blurring, and smudging of property, shared and commons decreases with the hierarchical position of the caste. This research could help one to rethink  the architecture that will bring the concept of liberty, justice, and equality in spaces where caste operates or caste shapes the space and the life of people inhabiting it.




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