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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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Transient Grounds: Spatial Rhythms of Digital Nomadism 

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Heeya Mashru, 2025


This research explores how digital nomads inhabit and transform spaces through everyday routines, taking the field of research as Dharamkot, a small town located in the higher altitudes of McLeod Ganj. As technology enables mobility and the possibility of working remotely, new forms of inhabitation emerge that blur boundaries between permanence and transience. The following study will trace, by observation, mapping, and drawing, how digital nomads create temporary forms of stability within constant movement.

By documenting their spatial rhythms in places like cafes and hostels, the research shows how repetition and adaptation generate an everyday architecture of belonging. Drawing on Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis and Ingold's dwelling perspective, it also claims that temporariness is not the opposite of permanence but rather a mode through which contemporary spaces are in continuous production. Viewed through this lens, Dharamkot becomes a landscape where mobility produces space.

Digital nomads have transient lifestyles but this research turns its lens toward what happens after arrival, when the rhythms begin to take shape. This study investigates how, through spatial practices and temporal routines, digital nomads influence spatial production. It traces how hostels, cafes and shared infrastructures transform into intimate extensions of work and self. The work explores how mobility reconfigures the relationship between inhabitation and work, how repetition becomes a method of place-making, and how digital networks extend into physical terrains. In doing so, it situates digital nomadism as the one that inhabits the in-between, where movement and stillness coexist.

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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