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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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Migrant homemaking

Imaginaries of Home
Raghav Gupta, 2021


What does the concept of ‘home’ mean to a migrant? Apart from their country of origin, what are the different perceptions of the term, and how does it get produced each time an individual migrates? The dissertation argues that this multi-layered idea is not given, but is produced from little objects to enormous entities. The meaning of home should be interpreted not just in terms of behavioural/human theories, but also in terms of viewpoints that recognise the architectural form, objects and societal variables as key forces in the formation and reproduction of environmental meaning. The factors that make migrants feel at home or not at home vary and can change over time, as can their perceptions of where they call home. Migrants’ experiences with homemaking can reveal a lot about how strongly they are settling in and adapting to the culture they have migrated into, as well as how socially cohesive that society is. The research sets out by sampling four migrant individuals’ homemaking practices from the scale of objects, individual rooms, the house, to the neighbourhood. The conversations were documented by taking fast diagrammatic sketches and visual notes with footnotes, of anything and everything that was noticed throughout the interviews. Recording the specificity of the individual rooms, the apartment/house, to the neighbourhood was the second section of the study. From the case studies, the emerging themes linked to the concept of “home” were narrowed down. The narratives, subjective maps, and drawings examined here demonstrate a migrant’s overlapping affiliations and identifications, as well as how their sense of home is not confined to housing perimeters. The research suggests this concept extends to homemaking practices, objects, habits, relationships and conversations with multiple things, and people’s everyday experiences. It gets produced every time a migrant shifts from one place to another with the configuration within the fabric of the environment remaining constant and shaping them.




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