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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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Life of interstitial spaces

Narratives of Everyday
Manthan Chandak, 2021


This thesis starts with understanding what interstitial spaces mean to the urban form of a city and investigates the life they produce. The aim is to articulate the most ideal form of interstitial spaces that produces the highest interactions. Through the framework, the research analyses the activities afforded and life produced in different configurations of interstitial spaces and looks at how interstitials work in a continuum, where the interstitials become a part of inhibitors life. The research thus focuses on questioning the role of the architecture of interstitial spaces in shaping urban life and space. It further argues that in comparison to plotted development, interstitials in an organic development produce higher affordances for a variety of activities due to their physicality, extending my research objective to understand how one can rethink designing urban forms where interstitial spaces are an integral part of urban life and space?



Read also under ‘Cultural Dimensions of Inhabitation’:


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Architecture of congestion


Cultural Dimensions of Inhabitation
Deep Shah, 2018

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Urban ruins


Cultural Dimensions of Inhabitation

Gauri Sarang, 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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