SEA  
ARCHIVES  

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.


+ CORE COURSES
+ CULTURE STUDIES

+ CHOICE COURSES
+ SETTLEMENT STUDIES


Looking closely: spaces for the elderly

Narratives of Everyday
Urmi Bhanushali, 2023


This thesis comprehensively examines the living conditions of the elderly in Mumbai, a bustling metropolis. It acknowledges the concerns of individuals like my father, who contemplated relocating to his native place in his later years due to the fast-paced nature of life in Mumbai. Concurrently, it recognizes that a substantial elderly population has already established their lives in the city.

The primary objective of this study is to look closely, so as to analyze the living spaces of the elderly and their profound influence on daily existence. This scrutiny includes an exploration of how these spaces impact daily interactions, contributing to the formation of social and cultural bonds and friendships.

The study encompasses various living environments, considering the physical attributes that significantly define the opportunities and limitations within these spaces. These varied spaces and their physical characteristics lead to the development of strategies employed by the elderly to establish environments that offer them dignity, care, and inclusivity.

The research delves into distinct living contexts, such as old age homes, residential apartment buildings, ashrams, and informal settlements. Within each of these contexts, finds that elderly residents adopt unique lived experiences resulting in aspects that range from immobility to making the city home, the creation of heterotopic spaces within spaces of immobility and restriction imaginative adaptations of existing spaces, and the embracing of f gendered and collaborative spaces.

The thesis aims to understand which spaces effectively accommodate the needs of the elderly and which ones fall short of providing suitable living environments. These findings further lead to the identification of various factors that need to be considered while thinking of designing spaces for the elderly.




Read also under ‘Screens and Projections’:


Image 1

Choreography between body and space


Bodies in Space
Aparajita Bhowmick, 2020

Image 1

Towards cellularization



Bodies in Space
Bindiya Waghela, 2020

Image 1

Performative bodies and space



Bodies in Space
Khushi Bagrecha, 2023

Image 1

Perception and interstices: spatial transformations in public spaces post disruption

Bodies in Space
Nishith Parulekar, 2023

Image 1

Shared personals: manifestation of the personal into the shared

Bodies in Space
Raksha Srivastava, 2020

To access the Thesis Works, kindly fill the following form with relevant details. 
SEA Archives 2014© by the School of Environment and Architecture is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.