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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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Spatiality of segregation: planning of upper-class homes

Difference and Urban Space
Nitisha Parakh, 2022


Architects design and build homes where spaces are segregated for people who co-exist in these spaces. When people have the capital to hire architects and design a space they also have the power to create segregated spaces, not only have these design decisions become a pattern but some architects encourage these segregated spaces. One can implement segregations in large houses.

This thesis aims to analyse the segregations that happen between the two identified sets of people - the serving and the served, in these large houses. Focussing on houses of different sizes with diverse amenities, an attempt is made to establish  the relationships between the spaces used by these two sets of people in these large houses. The serving uses the spaces to serve, quickly moving through spaces, they live life in hiding. They remain segregated into the smaller spaces. The served uses the space in some parts, to be able to use and occupy the entire space of the house is absurd. They remain segregated into the larger parts of the house.

Through extensive interviews with family members of these houses, I will look at how the routines and movements of these two sets of people have a pattern and so do the spatial configurations across these houses.




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