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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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Everyday ecologies of care

Architecture of Care
Grishma Mehta, 2021


Cities happen through multiple layers of Networks. In our everyday routines, there is an occurrence of various kinds of interdependencies that goes unnoticed. And it is often that due to those invisible interdependencies one feels protected in a certain environment. In this thesis I have tried to look into the social security of a neighbourhood through the concept of crisis, and how the contractual dimension of care can be humanized. The study is about investigating the social security of a neighbourhood under a larger notion of care. In each neighbourhood, the network of care behaves differently concerning the built architectural fabric and spatial configuration. I believe that Architecture has the power to hold on during difficult times through the spatial transitions and thresholds which it offers. I was always curious about how architecture can uplift a human’s well being both physically and mentally. This thesis looks towards the correlation between the spatial configuration, built form and the relationships/behaviours of three different neighbourhoods of Mumbai. It intends to understand and study the relation between social security in neighbourhoods of Mumbai. This study further can be used to design spaces in humanised form.



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Architecture of congestion


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Deep Shah, 2018

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Spaces of lived experiences


Cultural Dimensions of Inhabitation

Mahek Malaviya, 2021

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Memoryscape: a psychogeographic understanding of street

Cultural Dimensions of Inhabitation
Neha Keshari, 2021

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Architecture for mobile densities

Cultural Dimensions of Inhabitation
Nishi Shah, 2018

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Festive spaces

Cultural Dimensions of Inhabitation
Rithik Mali, 2021

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