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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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Urban grounds

Publics and Spaces
Alisha Jain, 2021


 This thesis aims to look at the “urban ground” that gets formed by the constant reconfiguration of the vertical and horizontal built forms “within cities like Mumbai”. The everyday mediation from enclosure(houses) to encounter(streets) allows one to experience a certain degree of alienation and microaggressions in urban spaces. How does the meeting of the vertical built forms and horizontal streets create varying degrees of publicness in urban spaces? How does this dialogical relationship generate different intensities of polarisation, walkability and safety? The obstructing and enhancing features are the reactions at the ground level which built form tends to offer.  The existing typologies like row houses, mid-rise and high-rise residential buildings and mixed-use buildings are closely studied to understand the impact it has on the neighbourhoods. Thus, this research closely looks at various urban conditions within the cities and analyses the kinds of life it tends to generate. Approaching the “ground” as a conceptual condition will help to understand the way in which the built responses the unbuilt. These responses thus generate different kinds of city lives.




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Enclosed opens


Publics and Spaces
Akshada Dhamapurkar, 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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