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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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Enclosed opens

Publics and Spaces
Akshada Dhamapurkar, 2021


 Interactions, movement, transactions were comfortable and easier before the COVID 19 pandemic of 2020. With the passage of pandemic waves, the scenario emerged towards a more restrictive and trapped engagement with the outside.  With the government announcing the lockdown, people were caged in their homes and were unable to move out. There were restrictions put on the use of public spaces. Many people enjoyed this capsule time in the comfort of their homes whereas many struggled to negotiate the shortage of space. Spaces which were often used for circulation and movement and connectivity such as otlas, corridors, courtyards, balconies, windows, terraces suddenly saw an increase of habitation and use. Due to the pandemic the people’s perceptions towards open spaces like playgrounds, garden areas, markets started to change. 


I observed many changed practices in my neighborhood at micro and macro levels. This thesis aims to identify contemporary practices that have emerged during the current pandemic and observe the change in behaviour patterns of people and space. This further would lead to an inquiry into the new emergent typology of open and habitable spaces which can comfortably accommodate the changed practices.




Read also under ‘Publics and Spaces’:

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Urban grounds


Publics and Spaces
Alisha Jain, 2021
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Food institutions: spatial and social networks

Publics and Spaces
Chetasvi Patel, 2024
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Crowds and publics


Publics and Spaces
Gunjan Shah, 2022
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Spaces of dissent/protest



Publics and Spaces
Maryam Sheikh, 2021
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Changing publics and the making / emergence of new cultural spaces


Publics and Spaces
Neel Shah, 2022
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Narratives of public line in Asar Mahal: histories, events and everyday

Publics and Spaces
Nisha Shinde, 2024
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The architecture of public spaces



Publics and Spaces
Ritu Naik, 2021
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Architecture of repose: characteristics and perceptions of open spaces

Publics and Spaces
Rushabh Dedhia, 2019
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Aesthetics of erasure



Publics and Spaces
Sakshi Sawant, 2022
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"open" to "public" spaces in Amravati


Publics and Spaces
Sapna Chopda, 2024
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Interpretative capacities of builtform


Publics and Spaces
Shachi Shah, 2019
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Public as assemblage in Sharjah

Publics and Spaces
Tanushree Bhagwat, 2024
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