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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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Excavating amphibious landscape: changing spacetimes and language

Indigenous Vocabularies in Urban Worlds
Sharvin Jangle, 2024


 The narrative of occupational change, where fishing is considered to be a secondary job during the last three decades, hardly captures the complexity of the changing relationship that Mumbai’s Kolis have with their traditional amphibious inhabitations. I engage this complexity by inquiring into the relationship between changing language and spacetimes in fishers’ habitation by drawing upon scholarship in the field of landscape architecture and urban studies that explores the relationship between language, time, space, and rhythmanalysis. Turning to language as a lens that helps trace ontologies and epistemologies of spacetimes, I ask: How do fisherfolk imagine and inhabit an amphibious landscape?

Tracing routines of 12 inhabitants belonging to different genders, ages, and occupations from Versova koliwada, and the spaces they traverse, this thesis puts together a glossary of fifteen terms that draw upon oral traditions, stories, practices, and techne through which knowledge is shared.

I advance three arguments through the glossary that has taken the narrative form of a diary. First, the language of the glossary terms are suffused with concepts that unravel a change from a water-based to a land-based imagination. Second, despite the profound structural change in which fishers compete with big business in the far seas and encounter environmental harms in the near estuarine coasts, they inhabit and move between both water-based and land-based spacetimes. And third, in the shift from a water-based to a land-based imagination, terms that encapsulated older cultural practices of care are recast in the realm of heritage and tradition. The excavation of an amphibious landscape through the glossary of inhabitations helps move beyond binaries.






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