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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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Galalelya jaga ("गाळलेल्या जागा"): overlaps of memory and home

Memory and Belonging
Aditi Bhandari, 2024


The idea of a past home has always carried a memory tied to the dwellings and form of the house. Regardless of context, a shift in homes brings tangible and intangible associations. Newer typologies are emerging along with the rapid transformation in third-tier cities, with newer imagination for  This shift reflects the evolving imagination of the home, but it might tend to alienate them from the nuances of life and sociality along with it. The thesis acknowledges the role of spatial memory while shifting from different typological houses in a similar context through homemaking practices. The research question hence is: How does spatial memory become a device to adapt to newer house types?

The dissertation has stories of four households in Sinnar, a third city of Maharashtra, who have shifted homes under different timelines. These stories are explored through the concepts of spatial memory and homemaking practices, divided into three parts: first, how the household narrates their memories of past homes; second, the typological study of present homes, their inhibition and routine, and things they have carried along. Lastly, the overlap that happens between the narration of the past and every day of the present. When memory and type are studied simultaneously, the arguments are drawn around house-type through aspiration, affordance, sociability and degrees of privacy. The type is derived through the layers of aspirations shaping the imagination of home, hence it is operated through the memory of past home-making practices to adapt to the given typology. As the title suggests, ‘गाळलेल्या जागा’, these transitions conceptualise how the dwellers fill the space with the instances of the past where a sense of home lies.





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Spatialities of everyday heritage



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Remembering ghar: continuities of memory


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Anika Pugalia, 2024

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Architecture of a monument: Vasai fort


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Chinmay Kadwadkar, 2018

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Architecture and memory: remembering home in involuntary dislocation

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Dhruv Chavan, 2018

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On Sindhi refugees: making home in Jalgaon


Memory and Belonging
Khushboo Tejwani, 2024

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Retrofitted domesticities


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Nikunj Dedhia, 2020

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Architecture and healing: civil war inversion of public space Borella, Colombo

Memory and Belonging
Rutu Kelekar, 2018

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Spatiality of remembrance: encounters between the native and urban

Memory and Belonging
Tanishqa Rodrigues, 2020

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