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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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On Sindhi refugees: making home in Jalgaon

Memory and Belonging
Khushboo Tejwani, 2024


The thesis inquires into the practices of making and imagination of home among Partition refugees. Whereas much of the existing literature focuses on narrative of loss, I build upon a small body of literature that expands the concept of the home-making practices amongst refugees as a spatial, relational, temporal and material home beyond the tenement provided by refugee resettlement and rehabilitation process. I chose to inquire into the experience of lesser-studied Sindhi refugees who have come to make home in smaller cities; in this thesis, Kunwar Nagar in Jalgaon which was set up as a refugee colony by the central government in 1948. I ask: How have Sindhi Partition refugees made their home in the refugee colony of Kunwar Nagar? 

Putting oral histories of ten households into conversation with the built-form of their tenements and neighbourhood, I open out stories of violence, ties and trust; the making of infrastructure and institutions in a context where basic amenities and shelter were provided; enterprise; incremental extensions, modifications, retrofits and amalgamations; labour involved in making the home; building social and economic networks; claim-making practices and boundary subversions; and, old age living. These stories help questions about spatial imagination in the design of resettlement and rehabilitation projects, on the one hand, and the design imagination to transform the spatiality of built-form in refugee colonies that helps absorb the emerging contexts of homemaking, on the other hand.



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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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Remembering ghar: continuities of memory

Memory and Belonging
Anika Pugalia, 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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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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