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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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Space and fiction: anime / manga

Imagination and Spatial Practice
Paras Burande, 2022


Fictional spaces provide architects with opportunities to experiment with space and craft newer experiences. Anime/Manga is a newer, smaller, and more competitive mode of fiction compared to the corporate giants of cinema productions, resulting in exploring newer types of representation. Personally being engaged with a niche and hence experimental fictional medium “anime”, it is evident that liberation from real-world constraints has produced newer possibilities of inhabitation. This thesis aims to explore imaginary space through the medium of “anime” and “manga” of Japanese origin. Further, it aims at exploring obscure spatialities that can be generated through understanding architectural representations in Japanese anime/manga.

The analysis is made through visual and mental observations. Taking a few of the anime as samples- with other-world-settings and experimental architectural representations along with strong personal real-life associations- experiential drawings have emerged. Dissecting the fictional settings created by Manga artists and Anime directors’ styles and themes, it is safe to say that certain spatial elements trigger certain emotions and experiences.  Further pointing out the elements that help in crafting new forms and spaces, helped in understanding the common concepts used for articulating a fictional space. And these are often related to “stretching”, “extending” or “exaggerating”.etc  the elements in space and creating a sense of other-worldliness or obscureness.

Since we make strong associations while engaged with fiction and create mind spaces, it is interesting to take inspiration from these surreal imagined spaces. This research helps to bridge the gap between imaginary and real and create new possibilities to make real-life spaces more experiential and meaningful. In the stale age of standardised and mass-produced architecture,  it is crucial for architects to explore new logics to derive forms and create spaces.




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