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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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Understanding spatiality of dream experiences

Urban Sensoriums
Jatan Gala, 2021


The experiences of dreams which are often categorized as bizarre, also imply that one doesn’t necessarily experience them in the waking state. Through an inquiry into the analysis of dreams of four people, this thesis argues that spatiality of dreams doesn’t prevail in coherence and a totality of ‘being’. The traces of experiences of dreams are found in incoherences, instability, the visceral and the instinctual.

Our current logics of imagination of space structures themselves around the logics of purity, utility and rationality. Comprehension of space through these logics, produces new totalities, to prevail these logics. In this completion in itself and in an attempt to comprehend dreams, it fails to understand the experiences of dreams and hence either tames it (in making it coherent and useful) or negates it (discards it as being non useful). In this attempt, imagination fails to find new logics of experiencing space. Dreams resist being quantified in totalities and thus the thesis tries to understand not the literal spaces of the dreams but the spatiality which holds dream experiences (of urges and fear). The thesis undertakes an exploratory method of creating spatial installations through understanding the experiences of dreams of the four people interviewed. The installations are an intervention in the space of the school (School of Environment and Architecture) building upon my own associations and experiences of the space. The intentions of these installations are to nudge the experience of the space and to hold the experiences of dreams. In doing so the space of institution which is otherwise imagined as a place of disciplining is now imagined as a space of multiple chance encounters through visceral materialities, sublime experiences, defamiliarizing spaces, evoking mysteries, creating glitches and experiences of multiple scales. With this, the thesis proposes an expanding catalogue of spatial tools to provoke new ways to imagine space.


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Senses and spatial practice: drawing from other senses


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The architecture of shadows



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Pet landscapes: spatial awkwardities in human animal interactions

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Paulomi Joshi, 2020

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(Un)canny city | dérive through Vile Parle


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Pranay Kotadia, 2021

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Mechanics of memory and nine houses through sensorium, atmospheres and type

Urban Sensoriums
Pratik Bharati, 2022

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A stray’s space


Urban Sensoriums
Raunak Rangnekar, 2020

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Sense scape: making sense of human senses in a space

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Vaishnavi Bhartia, 2020

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