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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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Re-evaluating residual spaces

Narratives of Everyday
Ria Shah, 2022


There are several awkward spaces, non-standard voids, slivers in the city, located in between buildings, occupying edge conditions or just not enough to occupy any form of ‘traditional use’ that are termed ‘residual’. Through a utilitarian framework, terms like “residue” are understood  as leftover, forgotten, redundant, useless, unwanted, discarded, something that has to be removed and erased. But in doing that we also erase forms of life and experiences that are contingent on this idea or space. Re-evaluating the idea of residue will help us validate a form of life that otherwise would have been obliterated.

The thesis is an elaboration of a method of recognition, analysis and evaluation of residual spaces, thus emphasising that the spatiality of such spaces affords opportunities for practices of everyday life. In order to support the argument, three sets of case studies of different types of urban voids in a city have been documented to help understand how agencies created by the ‘everyday’ of people employ the spatial affordance of residual spaces and how they lend themselves to so many dimensions of life.

Along with instances of explaining the affordance of such spaces, the thesis includes an analysis of the movement patterns, socio-political economy of their neighbourhoods, coordinates through which claims are made, materials strategies mobilised and space planning standards and scales reimagined to consolidate these spaces.




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