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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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Urban transformations in Jaysingpur: 1916-2023

Accretions
Dishita Galchat, 2023


Urban planning and land use management play a pivotal role in shaping the sustainable development and livability of cities. In smaller cities like Jaysingpur, characterized by unique socio-economic and demographic features, the concept of mixed land use takes on a distinct significance. This thesis aims to uncover the urban transformation patterns within Jaysingpur by primarily focusing on three dimensions: type, cluster, and neighborhood. Furthermore, it explores shifts in the areas of housing types, family structures, economic factors, and occupational changes.

The thesis centers its attention on the evolution of housing types over a century and how these changes have influenced the daily lives of the residents. To gain a deeper understanding of these evolving dynamics and identify the social aspects associated with each housing type, various case studies are conducted. These cases include wada, apartment, bungalow, shop house, row house, farmhouse, and informal settlements, each with distinct historical narratives and layers of transformation. The study undertakes an analysis of spatial, economic, and socio-cultural dimensions across all these cases. It examines the spatial layouts of the houses, their overall functionality, the individuals residing within them, and the activities occurring both inside and outside these spaces.

The research compiles a series of spatial diagrams representing various housing types, thereby revealing larger economic trends within the city. This necessitates a reevaluation of how we perceive smaller cities with mixed land use and how it influences the future development and urbanization trends in a smaller city.




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