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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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Negotiations of live-work

Adaptabilities
Pracheta Sawardekar, 2021


Industrial revolution led to functional specialisation of labour, resulting in a sharp separation between living and working conditions within urban spaces. In order to achieve increased production and efficiency, such societal growth necessitated zonal segregation.This manifests itself in the spatial division of home and work spaces, which are imagined as spaces for singular activities. However, in many contexts like ours, spaces are not lived so singularly, rather, people actively use their living spaces for their own micro enterprises.

In order to achieve this, inhabitants of the home have to make certain arrangements or spatial reconfigurations to conduct their work in the same place. Such reconfigurations challenge the normalised and consolidated type of living, which is only thought through the registers of bedrooms and living spaces (or the BHK). The developers and builders consider including working activities within the house, but rigid planning dictates the particular working activities, such as study rooms and guest rooms, which are assigned within the existing wall boundaries.

This research tries to study how live-work conditions allow enterprises to operate within the three housing typologies i.e. chawls, apartment, row-house and also understanding the varied possible degrees of flexibility which unfolds the spatiality of a house by explaining how activities within a day extend, expand or gets transformed thus, re-shaping the boundaries of public and private. This thesis aims to develop strategies and to think of spaliatities which allow simultaneous existence/co-existence of working and living.




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