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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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Land tenure dynamics and built form

Claims and its Spatialities
Nidhi Mehta, 2021


This dissertation examines the possibilities and challenges related to land tenure and affordable housing development through the lens of property rights. It attempts to address contradictory tenure regimes, the rapid growth of low density, informal residential development, and urban sprawl in Goa. The study tries to map the mechanics of how property rights/tenure/claims translate into the experience of space. A field study was conducted through unstructured interviews to have a better understanding of the history of the place which further developed into narrative drawings. Thus the research question “How does the sense of property shape the experience of space?.”It further argues that a cultural, historical, and political influence and a legal system shape the city and is an essential determinant of housing affordability, particularly for the middle class.



Read also under ‘Claims and its Spatialities’:


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The claims of everyday street



Claims and its Spatialities
Abhilasha Ambhire, 2021

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Mumbai's street religiosities: spatial negotiations and making of public space

Claims and its Spatialities
Karan Dalal, 2018

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Architecture of watching



Claims and its Spatialities
Riya Parekh, 2018

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Architecture of mass living | retelling of tenurial relationships


Claims and its Spatialities
Ruchita Sarvaiya, 2021

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Humanising infrastructure: a study of transit related infrastructure in Mumbai

Claims and its Spatialities
Shrushti Jain, 2018

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Objects of the street: understanding articulation of street-space through furniture

Claims and its Spatialities
Vidhi Gandhi, 2018

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