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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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Spaces of lived experiences

Cultural Dimensions of Inhabitation
Mahek Malaviya, 2021


In the suburbs of Mumbai, a large number of chawls are being redeveloped into apartments. I have experienced living in a chawl and an apartment. Being a part of both, I was able to notice differences in lived experience of these spaces before and after the transformation. This perked my interest in understanding how space lets certain things happen or triggers certain movements, behaviors and activities. Following up on that experience, this thesis aims to understand the spatiality where the transformation that happens is able to continue the form and life that is conducive to their everyday relationships. This transformation is looked at a larger neighbourhood level as well as at individual site level. These changes were observed through 3 major lenses- Physical or the Spatial Transformation which is directly connected to the patterns and the experiences of the lived spaces. The second is the Social Transformation, where changes in  different relationships between the community, family, neighbourhood, etc are observed. And finally the Economic Transformation where the maintenance and the affordance of a space is put into question. For the research, a series of conversations with individuals were conducted about their experience going through this transformation that occurred over the years in the neighbourhood, the transformation of their house within and about their daily activities and routines earlier and now.



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Festive spaces

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