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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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Crowds and publics

Publics and Spaces
Gunjan Shah, 2022


When we think about cities we think of buildings, skyscrapers, or traffic, but cities are about people. Cities are about where people go and where they meet. It is what makes the city work. People make spaces, as well as spaces shape people. The way people adapt, move, and manage the spaces around the city will determine the meaning of space. Even more important than buildings in the city are the public spaces in-between them. The patterns of the in-between spaces and the public spaces in the city create opportunities for encounters and coexistence across diverse social and ethnic divides. The daily encounters because of these patterns create familiarity between individuals. This familiarity leads to forming a public.

The daily encounters give opportunities to the crowd to create public. The potential for interaction and meetings between people from different areas, ages, and different social backgrounds in a public realm is crucial for creating an integrated society and creating tolerance and a sense of belonging. Activities happening in a public space constantly generate disorder and change. Successful public spaces offer different experiences and possibilities. Spaces that can create public or the ability to create social spaces. It should allow the transition between the crowd and the public and creates opportunities for the crowd to become public. The spatial conditions of these spaces shape the experience of people.

The objective of this study is to look at how the public is constituted in different kinds of public spaces and thereby how people move and occupy spaces. This hypothesis alludes to rethinking the idea of public and crowd and what kind of spatiality makes public and crowd that makes an active public space and hence rethink the idea of how do we manage the crowd such that it does not disrupt the formation of public.




Read also under ‘Publics and Spaces’:

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Enclosed opens


Publics and Spaces
Akshada Dhamapurkar, 2021
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Urban grounds


Publics and Spaces
Alisha Jain, 2021
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Food institutions: spatial and social networks

Publics and Spaces
Chetasvi Patel, 2024
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Spaces of dissent/protest



Publics and Spaces
Maryam Sheikh, 2021
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Changing publics and the making / emergence of new cultural spaces


Publics and Spaces
Neel Shah, 2022
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Narratives of public line in Asar Mahal: histories, events and everyday

Publics and Spaces
Nisha Shinde, 2024
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The architecture of public spaces



Publics and Spaces
Ritu Naik, 2021
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Architecture of repose: characteristics and perceptions of open spaces

Publics and Spaces
Rushabh Dedhia, 2019
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Aesthetics of erasure



Publics and Spaces
Sakshi Sawant, 2022
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"open" to "public" spaces in Amravati


Publics and Spaces
Sapna Chopda, 2024
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Interpretative capacities of builtform


Publics and Spaces
Shachi Shah, 2019
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Public as assemblage in Sharjah

Publics and Spaces
Tanushree Bhagwat, 2024
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