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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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Life and culture: cultural impact on everyday life

Hybrids and Cohabitation
Khushi Singla, 2022


Culture has always been a very crucial part of our daily life. Be it some festivals , annual events, or routine practices. To accommodate these cultures we require cultural space which need not be the designated spaces for these specific events but can be a part of our living space as well, such as extended plinths, verandas, street edges etc. People of different regions have different living practices which when brought together becomes the culture of that space.

Cultures are internally affected by both forces encouraging change and forces resisting change. These forces are related to social structures and natural events, Hence over the years those living practices have changed which resulted in the change of the culture and hence change in the cultural spaces. There are different spatial affordances which each space offers.

Hence the major argument of this thesis is “How does new cultural infrastructure and its spatiality shape life?  In order to support this argument, this study focuses on a Gaothan named “Chuim” in Bandra which over the years have become very dense as well as gentrified. A lot of people have migrated resulting in the formation of small religious groups. Its context has a lot to do with these changes. People who were living in Chuim have started migrating out resulting in renting out their own spaces in chuim. New people coming to Chuim bring new cultures and practices with them and  mainly they commercial cultural spaces that generate a cultural economy. Hence a commercial industry has been set up in the village. Along with cultural spaces, the overall morphology of the village has changed, impacting everyday practices of people. Hence the major findings of this study indicates that these new cultural spaces have changed the spatial affordance of villages and the life they are offering has a wide gap with the life villagers used to live.




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