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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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Remembering ghar: continuities of memory

Memory and Belonging
Anika Pugalia, 2024


The ‘Ghar’ that gets remembered isn't an object or a complete thing, It’s an idea formed piecemeal from a collection of spaces and practices that inform the way of living. We construct the idea of the home once inhabited or the ones we go on to inhabit through the memories rooted in instances and fragments. Thus, the thesis argues that the remembered home softens the claim that type has about a certain organisation of space and form of life, with the question: How do spaces and practices of the remembered home produce a spatiality that blurs the inhabitation of a particular type?

The thesis aims to demonstrate how recollections of former dwelling places continue to extend and shape the space and idea of the inhabited home. Three cases of people who have shifted their dwelling space and shaped the space idea of home in Mumbai and Jaipur were identified. The method used to approach the study was collecting semi-structured interviews, keeping field notes, and collecting archival material of their former and current homes. The interlocution opened about how the home was remembered - Fragments of spaces, narratives with which it continued to mutate.

The study undertakes a drawing method launching from these collected photographs as spatial anchors(from the photographic album or self) and reconstructing the remembered home and current home around it which gets mapped through memories and spatial practices. The form of remembering that is seen beyond the type-configuration of spaces, claims, and aspirations in this whole shift with their memories produces the space they continue to inhabit.

The friction between these in the home they continue to inhabit suggests that the idea of the type as prescriptive and rigid as we claim it to be gets blurred by their memories and spatial practices that they claim to produce something else altogether. The whole house gets produced by this friction so the thesis also argues to look at the forms of remembering that construct a new kind of spatiality of the house which is not talked about giving us newer ways to think about space itself.



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Spatialities of everyday heritage



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


Memory and Belonging
Aditi Bhandari, 2024

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Architecture of a monument: Vasai fort


Memory and Belonging
Chinmay Kadwadkar, 2018

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Architecture and memory: remembering home in involuntary dislocation

Memory and Belonging
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


Memory and Belonging
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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