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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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Vaastu shastra and contemporary life

Imaginaries of Home
Vaibhav Mistry, 2021


The city can be understood as a web of contested visions through the perceptions of the production of space where conflicts are socially embedded and not as an exceptional occurrence and deviation away from a normal state of social order. The city can be thus conceived as a melange of various incongruous variables ( actors and logics ) i.e. people, resources, economies, claims, etc; often discrepant in nature, which overlap and intersect into one another to create peculiar spatial conditions. The overlappings create new city conceptualizations of complexity and multiplicity that no longer adhere to linear notions of homogeneity. This thesis argues that the produced contested spatial ensemble is gradually consolidating, hardening as a result of commodification and privatization interests. Power relations operating in urban transformations through the top-down development processes, systemically exclude certain marginal groups- creating spaces that are conducive to the erasure of such differences- thus directly challenging notions of diversity and multiplicity. The argument is supported through empirical investigations in Gaothans of Mumbai at the cusp of development, where the study draws out contradictions and opposing logics unfold in the course of its spatial transformation. In contrast to the newer forms that are unable to absorb the complexities of everyday life as it fails to take into account the innate ability of people to reconstruct spatial realities in light of their own lived experiences - allowing diversity to exist and in ways that best suit their dreams, one that is not pre-conceived or pre-planned. 




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Spatiality of segregation: planning of upper-class homes


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Class and housing aspiration



Difference and Urban Space
Sagar Gurav, 2019
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Gendering in public spaces: a look into how women perceive, navigate and occupy spaces

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