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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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Food institutions: spatial and social networks

Publics and Spaces
Chetasvi Patel, 2024


This thesis examines the social and spatial networks formed through diverse food practices in urban settings, focusing on how these practices generate a sense of community and shared identity. This study explores the evolving sociality fostered through food by analysing six distinct sites—a Gurdwara, khanaval, tiffin service, cooking class, apartment complex, and digital platforms like YouTube.

Each site provides unique insights into how people connect across cultural, religious, and digital spaces, exchanging food and stories to reinforce social bonds and create shared spaces. The study particularly highlights the role of women in leading these exchanges, using food practices as a medium to extend networks and bridge cultural divides. Through interviews, site observations, and spatial analysis, the research investigates how these food institutions shape interpersonal connections and cultivate a communal environment within diverse urban landscapes. This interdisciplinary approach to food practices reveals food as a central medium transforming physical and digital spaces into cohesive, socially meaningful networks.






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Enclosed opens

Publics and Spaces
Akshada Dhamapurkar, 2021
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Urban grounds

Publics and Spaces
Alisha Jain, 2021
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Crowds and publics

Publics and Spaces
Gunjan Shah, 2022
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Spaces of dissent/protest

Publics and Spaces
Maryam Sheikh, 2021
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Changing publics and the making / emergence of new cultural spaces


Publics and Spaces
Neel Shah, 2022
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Narratives of public line in Asar Mahal: histories, events and everyday

Publics and Spaces
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The architecture of public spaces



Publics and Spaces
Ritu Naik, 2021
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Architecture of repose: characteristics and perceptions of open spaces

Publics and Spaces
Rushabh Dedhia, 2019
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Aesthetics of erasure



Publics and Spaces
Sakshi Sawant, 2022
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"open" to "public" spaces in Amravati


Publics and Spaces
Sapna Chopda, 2024
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Interpretative capacities of builtform


Publics and Spaces
Shachi Shah, 2019
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Public as assemblage in Sharjah

Publics and Spaces
Tanushree Bhagwat, 2024
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