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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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Changing spatialities of Shirdi

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Devesh Turakane , 2025


Shirdi, a small rural town in Rahata taluka in Ahilyanagar district of Maharashtra state is seen as a major pilgrimage spot around the globe. This was the place where the great 20th century Indian saint Sai Baba appeared for the first time. The place of his Samadhi Mandir is visited by innumerable devotees all round the year from every corner of the globe. Today, an authorised administrative body Shree Saibaba Sansthan Trust, Shirdi manages and looks after the day-to-day affairs of the temple and all related activities of/for the devotees.

Due to the ever increasing influx of devotees visiting this holy town, the urban fabric has been transforming and has started accommodating new builtforms; particularly which provide services to the devotees. Be it hotels and lodging, guesthouses, ashrams, restaurants, retail stores, market yards, schools and colleges, hospitals or airports or many other projects like this. It becomes interesting to look at the relationship between the influx of devotees and the changing surroundings.

With this rapid growth of the floating population, as the surrounding has also transformed as a response, it then becomes interesting to look at: What has transformed? Why has it transformed? When did it transform? Where did it transform? And, how did it transform? This thesis explores the same idea and looks at a deeper understanding of these changes.

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Spatialities of everyday heritage



Memory and Belonging
Aashika Vijaykar, 2020

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Galalelya jaga ("गाळलेल्या जागा"): overlaps of memory and home


Memory and Belonging
Aditi Bhandari, 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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On Sindhi refugees: making home in Jalgaon


Memory and Belonging
Khushboo Tejwani, 2024

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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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