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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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Dreamscapes

Imagination and Spatial Practice
Shreya Mehta, 2022


Through our dreams, we experience new and unfamiliar spaces, where the logic of space and reality becomes distorted and amplified. These dream spaces are very unconventional, amorphous, and bizarre than the real world. There are times when the dreamer feels as if they are in limbo, being nowhere or in between both the dream and the reality. The realization is felt through the surroundings and the control that the dreamer has on the space and themselves. As in the dream spaces, one loses all control, one's beliefs about the configurations and behavior of space itself start to fall apart and the whole thing becomes nightmarishly complex and illogical.

The hypothesis began by exploring the different configurations of spaces seen in our dreams through three films. These films are No Smoking, Paprika and The Science of Sleep. The spatial characteristics of dreams in these films reflect the architecture of our minds. Understanding these changes in the characteristics and configurations of space was the aim of this dissertation and also to explore the experiences that emerge through the different phenomena of our dream spaces. Understanding the human psyche and how a body experiences itself in reality and in the space of the dream universally, was done through watching films with dream sequences. This helped establish spatialities which were then doubly abstracted.

All the selected films show these characteristics and spatiality of dreams (nightmarish, labyrinthine, distorted, liminal, amorphous, and infinite) very clearly through experience, configurations of the elements, framing, and light. This study further led to establishing newer spatial configurations through films with the imaginations of their dream sequences and figuring out how to apply these newer spatial combinations, imaginations, and qualities in the real world and architecture to rethink our ideas of space creation. Dream landscapes then have the potential to change the way we design and experience space altogether.



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