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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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In the Breaks: Extending the Industrial Time-Space

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Gargi Somani, 2025


This thesis explores the everyday spatial and temporal practices of labourers within and around industrial estate. Industrial estates are generally designed around efficiency and production, prioritizing workflow and circulation while leaving little room for rest, social interaction, or informal use. Yet within these rigid structures, workers continuously adapt, negotiate, and appropriate space, creating patterns of daily life that extend beyond the estate’s rigid layout.
Based on the fieldwork in Old Sonal Industrial Estate in Kanchpada, Malad; the study examines how workers’ movements, pauses, and interactions transform corridors, staircases, and footpaths into meaningful social and temporal spaces. It highlights how these everyday practices generate networks that spill across units, floors, and streets, forming a spatial order rooted in lived experience rather than industrial function of labour and production.

Drawing on Raqs Media Collective’s With an Untimely Calendar and Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis, the thesis positions the industrial estate as a landscape of rhythms, where measured, productive time coexists with the unrecorded, human time of labourers. It asks how architecture might recognise and respond to these “untimely” moments, reimagining the industrial estate as a space of everyday architecture.

Through four case studies of worker routines, the thesis traces the spatio-temporality of labour within the industrial time-space. Each case captures the rhythms of a workday; moments of movement, pause, and interaction that unfold within and around the estate. These everyday gestures, though small, reveal how workers navigate and shape spaces designed for efficiency and control. A brief conversation at a tea stall, shared meals, or a slow walk between shifts become ways of reclaiming both time and space within a rigid schedule hence forming social relationships as well.  

Read also under ‘Memory and Belonging’:


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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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