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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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Community and water edge: transformations around lakes

Community and Spatiality
Jinal Trivedi, 2024


 Water bodies have long served as both ecological lifelines and social anchors, shaping the evolution of human settlements. Over time, the organic interaction between communities and water bodies began to shift. Urbanisation introduced rigid infrastructure and altered these relationships. Water edges are more than just physical boundaries; they are dynamic spaces where natural and human environments converge, shaping communities. These edge spaces are not just transitional zones; they actively contribute to the sense of community, influencing how people gather, interact, and engage with their surroundings. However, when neglected or inaccessible, water edges can contribute to social and spatial exclusion.

This research examines the reciprocal relationship between the form of water edge and the people inhabiting these spaces, revealing how each influences and reshapes the other. Today, water edges are frequently designed with leisure and recreation in mind, which limits how communities imagine and use these spaces. This study investigates how the physical form of water edges impacts community practices, identities, and interactions. It also explores how communities adapt and re-interpret these spaces to reflect their needs and aspirations.
Drawing on case studies, interviews, and site observations, the research captures how community practices have evolved in response to changing water edge forms—adapting, resisting, or innovating as new spatial configurations emerge. It maps the shifts in community practices and social interactions at the water edge of lakes in the Vasai-Virar region, highlighting how people redefine these spaces beyond their recreational intent.




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