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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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Historical transformation of urban form

Flux
Riddhi Chavan, 2021


In Mumbai, many areas are seen having gaothans that look aged and seem like they are embedded in between highrises today. They are often challenged with the pressures of transformation in the form of changing patterns like road widening, and the endless exertions of real estate. Kharodi is an East Indian village located alongside Marve road in Malad West, Mumbai. The origin is believed to be approximately around three centuries back where the economy of the village was wholly pastoral. People began to settle here as they found the soil very rich to practice farming. As the village economy shifted from pastoral, people became landlords, service industries, and entrepreneurs. There is an internal energy existing within the village precinct to kind of readjust and readapt itself to the new economy which helps it to become contemporary. So how do these transformations organize life around them? The historic fabric is able to provide opportunities for multiple transformations in different ways to endure in this new economy. And so, I am looking at these contemporary transformations in the village. This thesis intends to understand how a historically configured space and form has transformed to accommodate contemporary life in an urban village. The study includes seven cases of transformations identified in different forms at the scale of the village, of a household, and of practices. These transformations hold certain patterns with them and have partially allowed the village to transform. From those, I conclude that the urban form undergoes transformation with the change of ownership, new infrastructure, changing economy, changes in social relationships and associations.





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