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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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World-making in fiction: narratives of gendered spaces

In other mediums
Atisha Bhuta, 2024


Design thinking and planning are not as exclusive forms of knowledge as architects or planners often believe. Fiction, on the other hand, distributes the agency of worldmaking, offering a broader understanding of how people see, interpret, and respond to their surroundings. It gives a voice to those who are often unheard, allowing them to express their views on the spaces they inhabit, both domestic and social. The thesis asks:  How do fictional narratives, thus, written by female authors, become a way of rethinking gendered - domestic and social spaces?

Fictional narratives, especially those written by women, provide a way of rethinking gendered spaces. They help us understand how women perceive and interact with their environments, challenging conventional ideas about home and public spaces. The notion of home and the neighbourhood, however, is not fixed; it shifts depending on a person's history, their location, and the time they live in.

This thesis conducts a comparative study across time, gender, and space, using eight literary works—four written by men and four by women—published between the early 1900s and the 2000s. These works, set in different geographical locations, are examined within the context of the events and larger narratives of their time. It considers how the narratives in these books reflect the wider social and political events of their time.

By comparing these texts, this study contributes to the ongoing debate on the role of fiction in architectural and spatial theory, questioning whether spatial agency is inherently gendered, and considers how literature can inspire more inclusive forms of spatial thinking.




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