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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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Theatre in the city

Type, Behaviour and Experience
Mohini Surve, 2022


The theatre is a performance of dramatic actions which narrate different stories and events to give meaning to the audience; whereas theatricality ( नाट्यमयता ) is an emotion and expression which they express by their act while doing movement or performance which calls everyone's attention. There is an entanglement of body and space which co-produces each other. Thus this thesis helps to study how body and space generate theatricality. and how does space become theatre?

The market is the complexity and density of overlapping bodies which create a very exclusive theatrical effect, where everyday action makes the space dynamic and brings vibrant form. That's why the market is observed through the lenses of a script, setting, performing body, and set as these are the components of theatre.

The site selected for this research is Borivali and Byculla BMC mandi (market) . Borivali is the main junction point for all suburbs and their outside stations. This market is surrounded by commercial and residential areas. Throughout the day this Whole area is covered by vendors, retailers, and buyers. Due to this, this market becomes a chaotic place throughout the day. Byculla mandi is one of the oldest markets which is located near Byculla station. This wholesale market is always active during the morning.

These thesis analyses how the BMC market space they have utilised became a set where the people who occupy the space became performers and their activities which come up together create a spectacle of theatre.

Time also plays an important factor in market space. The script of Borivali mandi is bustling which starts from 5 am to 9 pm and throughout the day the script of this space constantly transforms from chaos to repose. Whereas Byculla mandi is mostly active during morning from 4 am to 11 am.

With time, continuous interaction of bodies with space while doing practices, becomes well-practised behaviours and in a constant context, it recurs because the process that initiates and controls their performance becomes automatic.  And the decisions they are making consciously while doing practices become unconsciously a well-written script for them. And this script can defer from mandi to mandi due to its Given spaces, its utilisation, and the inner activities.




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