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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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Performative bodies and space

Bodies in Space
Khushi Bagrecha, 2023


Dance and architecture, two seemingly distinct fields of creativity, collide in a one-of-a-kind discourse centered on the manipulation of space; it communicates through body movements and expressions. Dance is the moving of the body in a given space. A dialogue between a performative body and a space is what brings the two art forms together. The body, a vessel of expression, becomes the medium through which this conversation unfolds. When a performative body moves inside a space, an intricate interplay occurs—a choreography that involves not just the body and its immediate surroundings, but also components such as walls, audience, cameras, and props. This forms a space around the performer that is present until the body moves. The body movements form a space around a person.

This thesis investigates the nuanced interaction between body movements and the spaces they create. Every movement, whether diligently orchestrated or spontaneously performed, produces a distinct spatial presence. Layers of relevant factors - power, time, density are integrated into this exploration and shape and redefine the dialogue. To comprehend the impact of these factors on body movements, the study introduces a supervised space characterized by power dynamics and surveillance. The chosen sites, classrooms within coaching classes and schools, serve as spaces where the student-teacher relationship takes center stage. The thesis investigates the reciprocal interaction between the movements of teachers and students, revealing how the bodies under surveillance create their own environments.

The focus of this study is to develop a more nuanced understanding of the student-teacher relationship in classrooms. It explores the subtle choreography that emerges within the classroom—a performance of influence, power, and spatial dynamics—by attentively examining how these dynamic movements influence student behavior and attentiveness.




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Towards cellularization



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Perception and interstices: spatial transformations in public spaces post disruption

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Shared personals: manifestation of the personal into the shared

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Raksha Srivastava, 2020

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Sociality of architectural institutions


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