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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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Perception and interstices: spatial transformations in public spaces post disruption

Bodies in Space
Nishith Parulekar, 2023


The thesis delves into the transformative aftermath of disruptive events, specifically the 26/11 attacks, on Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus and the Gateway of India.

Through the lens of Henri Lefebvre’s forces of opposition and subversion, the study examines contrasting perspectives of law enforcement and the public. It is noticed that the security personnel narratives revolve around security-centric measures and viewpoints, based on surveillance emphasizing visible enhancements to public spaces. In contrast to this, the public demonstrates a subtle, collective adaptation to the changes, a seemingly unnoticed and quiet transformation in everyday individual and collective behavior Security measures, intended for safety, paradoxically diminish the perceived openness of monumental spaces, subtly reshaping public movement patterns and behavior.

The public’s response, while collectively acknowledging alterations, manifests at an individual level as an subconscious yet pragmatic adaptation. Notably, photographers at the Gateway of India provide a unique case study, revealing unintended consequences of security enhancements. The removal of a garden prompts an adaptive search for new interstitial zones, redefining not only functionality but also leisure and communal interactions. This research illuminates the intricate dynamics of post-disruption on urban landscapes, emphasizing the importance of considering both security imperatives and the preservation of the civic experience in shaping the multifaceted nature of public spaces.





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