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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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Organisational form and space: a study of an ashram in Delhi

Urban Religiosities
Tanisi K, 2023


The thesis examines the relationship between organizational form and spatiality. For this purpose, the recently established Chattarpur Mandir Complex in Delhi was chosen as this place has undergone significant and explicit changes in the last few decades organisationally and spatially. Chattarpur mandir grew out of a small ashram in Chattarpur village (approximately 1 km away from the temple) in 1975 to what now stands on 60 acres of land.

Semi-structured interviews with officials of the temple towards understanding the organizational shifts; and identification of spatial changes over the years formed key methods to undertake the study. The temple had undergone a series of shifts in its organizational form - from being a group of people around a single ‘baba’, to being a large corporate organization with several departments and hundreds of employees. Similarly, the physicality of the ashram also changed during these years - from being a small shrine to a large temple complex with a large amount of land and a series of buildings.

Based on a series of analysis of form and behavior, the thesis concludes that there is a relationship between organizational form and spatiality (in this case of the ashram), where from being a highway shrine, it turned into a community space, and further into a public space and finally into a corporate park.





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