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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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Spatial Learnings From Other Life Forms

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Janvi Gupta, 2025


Architectural discourse largely remains anthropocentric, overlooking the profound ways in which non-human beings actively co-produce urban space and define their own spatial realities. This thesis challenges the static, human-centric view of the city by arguing that the built environment is a dynamic commons, continuously shaped by interspecies interactions.Through an in-depth field study of three distinct Mumbai sites- house inhabited by a spider, a fish market and an unclaimed site holding infrastructures of inhabitation for pigs- this research employs fine-grained observations to understand how more than human beings craft and inhabit space through their individual and collective agencies. The methodology systematically unpacks their relationship with space and humans. How does one through these studies redefine human logic of thinking through space and its constitution.

The findings reveal that urban space is fundamentally relational, porous and temporally dynamic. More than human agency and inhabitations redefine concepts of homing, shared spaces, claiming, resources, and infrastructures. Through the study, the case of the spider reveals and reconfigures the definition of sensory overlap to one that is read not from walls but from an invisible field of vibrations, airflow and thermal cues. Herons, crows, cats and dogs in the commons of a market, reveal shared and contested spaces and transgressions through the inhabitation of human made infrastructures of work. The pigs movements reshape the very construct of a neighborhood into an infrastructural ecology of waste, where they engage with the debris of modernity as a primary resource.

Key outcomes include the emergence of shared spaces co-produced by the overlapping actions, rhythms and negotiations of all its inhabitants and the larger realization of multispecies commons-urban spaces continually reconfigured through interspecies negotiation. Ultimately, this thesis questions-How does the presence of human life lead to the co-production of a multispecies commons, and what are the spatial relationships that define this shared space?

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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