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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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Performing life: theatre and its spatial configurations

Hybrids and Cohabitation
Netra Khodke, 2022


 The thesis establishes a relationship between the spatiality of theatre and the form of life and living it affords. It argues that earlier forms of theatres, through their spatial configuration, allowed a diversity of life and living as opposed to the fixed idea of the modern theatre that is restricted to the idea of the proscenium and the audience. The research is constructed through the stories of the artists. This relationship is built by observing and collecting information and accounts through interviews, discussion, literature reviews and case studies.

Pune exemplifies an indigenous Marathi culture. The city’s Lavani scene over the past two and half centuries has demonstrated that Pune has always held a space for the art form. There are some historical theatres in Pune that specifically produce a kind of living for the artists and the spatiality of such theatres has changed the life of the artists. Here, artists live together leaving their families behind while they pursue their art through the performance of Lavani. Looking at these spaces through the lens of the artists working there draws out very specifically how spatiality creates a form of living. The everyday activities of the artists make them inhabit spaces according to their needs and desires. However, as modern theatres started coming up, the form of living for the artists changed. Living in these modern theatres has become restricted with a “tight-fit functionalism” and a lack of flexibility restricting living, and creating inhibition in interaction. There are dedicated spaces for every activity and artists can only inhabit spaces with given frameworks.

This thesis will help us understand how spatiality helps to produce a kind of living. It will set up a lens for architects to understand the relationship between spatial configuration and an affordance of life.




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"open" to "public" spaces in Amravati


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Public as assemblage in Sharjah

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