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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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Karkhana

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Kavya Gada, 2025


This thesis examines how work–live practices shape inhabitation within informal industrial settlements, focusing on the everyday negotiations between production and dwelling. It studies how spatial forms, material systems, and social interactions evolve through overlapping domestic and occupational needs. Through the analysis of workshop typologies,metal extraction, fabrication, chemical formulation, automobile repair, and segregation it investigates how each adapts and transforms through patterns of use, collaboration, and incremental growth.

The research explores the intersection of architecture, labour, and material production within Mumbai’s informal industrial landscapes, where the boundaries between factory, home, and street dissolve. It argues that these environments embody industrial humanism and architecture evolving through necessity rather than design intent. Read as laboratories of adaptation, these spaces reveal a form of unconscious design intelligence that is both responsive and self-organizing.

By viewing labour and living as co-dependent rather than separate, the study situates workshops as self-organized habitats functioning simultaneously as homes and production units. These practices demonstrate a collective intelligence, an architecture that grows through use, repair, and shared occupation. Drawing on Purwaningrum and Savirani’s concept of architecture for living, the thesis frames informal typologies as human-centered acts of design born from adaptation rather than authority.

Located along the Mithi River in Mumbai, Kunchi Kurve Nagar becomes the ground of this inquiry where architecture emerges as a social process: adaptive, incremental, and deeply embedded in the intertwined rhythms of living and making.



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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