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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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Festive spaces

Cultural Dimensions of Inhabitation
Rithik Mali, 2021


 City’s older community focused development allowed social interactions on varied levels, from daily engagements to festival celebrations. Festive times would bring in change, a shift in social relationships, enchanting their social life and creating a sense of community and security. However, in the past few decades the cities have started to change and urbanisation has started to impact this practice and social engagements. Urban housing is more independent and isolated. Over time the spaces of celebration started to change and these new spaces did not seem to lend themselves for these festive activities in all its character. The kind of joy, spirit and engagement which was present can no longer be witnessed at the earlier scale and in turn altering and diminishing the social relationships between people.

This thesis ‘re-imagines open spaces in neighbourhoods for festive activities’. The research question attempts to ‘Understand the relationship of spirit of festivals or Jashn and the Mahol that is created in Jagah’. A sample study of three different neighbourhoods of varying densities having different housing types was done. The study articulates the ideas of Jagah, Mahol and Jashn through local narratives, site engagements and informal conversations with the inhabitants. Site observations highlight the shifts in the relationships of people and the scales at which a Jashn takes place and the changes it brings in.

This study allows one to investigate ‘how a space shapes the relationships amongst individuals of a neighbourhood.’ This further on, will help one in ‘re-imaging open spaces for festive activities’.

Jashn - Celebration - Celebrate - (Latin) celeber/celbr - celebrare- celebrat - Celebrate (late middle english)
Mahol - Atmosphere (the character,the feeling,the essence, the mood of a place or situation)
Jagah - Place - Plateia Hodos (Greek) - Platea (Latin) - Place (Old French)




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