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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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Senses and spatial practice: drawing from other senses

Urban Sensoriums
Gauri Sonar, 2022


Hearing people always assume that there is only one way to understand sound: by hearing/ listening to it. The thesis studies how space is perceived in the absence of a particular sense and how other senses compensate to understand and construct a spatiality through various interviews, articles, research papers, and discussions.

The idea of space was explored by understanding the routines of the interviewers. They travel through various spaces, from public to private, from being in the house to the market, as well as the school premises. The thesis uses the interviews to see how sound is experienced in various ways such as sound as flashing lights, sound as vibrations, among others. This sensual experience starts changing  from place to place; when one walks through the chaos of the market, the variations in the smell and its intensity give an idea to a person with hearing loss to understand visually and olfactorily the intensity of the sound. The thesis also studies how other senses get activated to create the coordinates of perception in the case of a person with hearing loss.


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Mechanics of memory and nine houses through sensorium, atmospheres and type

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A stray’s space


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Raunak Rangnekar, 2020

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Sense scape: making sense of human senses in a space

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