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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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Adaptable workspace

Adaptabilities
Yamini Patil, 2021


In our everyday lives, we spend the majority of time at work. The sense of space in workspaces affects the users by influencing their mental space and thus changing their behaviour towards the surroundings. The physicality of workspaces has an impact on users and this impact of the work environment urges users to change their surroundings in offices. This thesis aims to observe how users adapt to workplaces and what strategies they adopt to feel comfortable in their physical work environments. The trigger to look at workspaces was the newly induced condition of adapting to one’s home environment to work during the forced lockdown in the COVID pandemic. Through the field study, different offices were looked at and users of the offices were interrogated.

Government offices were chosen as a research field to study the patterns of spatial adaptation in workplaces. Planned with minimal involvement of user requirements, these are spaces where the physical space is often unresponsive towards its users. The impact of physical space on its users has been observed through the way employees change their physical settings around them in addition to their personal experiences of the space, their habits, how they feel mentally, their way of interacting with other employees of the office etc.

The study reveals how workplaces may not be completely devoid of personal memories and behaviours carried from one’s social context  - those that result in a distinct spatiality. Users constantly transform their radius of the workplace in order to feel comfortable and also have a workable atmosphere around them. Such a condition is essential for physical productivity. In the recently induced “work from home” condition during the pandemic lockdown, the research allows us to enter the workplace more empathetic, where architecture may allow for increased manoeuvring to make the users feel associated with their work towards meaningful outputs.




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Spatiality of publicness and new media

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