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On those who wait  

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Nishadh More, 2025


In the modern era, many people remain unaware that they are connected through a shared condition: waiting. Individuals from diverse socio-cultural and economic backgrounds live with a heightened awareness of time, and their daily lives often fall into four categories—work, leisure, locomotion, and waiting. This thesis focuses on waiting and examines it through two lenses: time and intention.
Viewed through time, waiting reveals three aspects. Engagement shows that distractions make waiting feel shorter. Certainty highlights that defined time frames reduce anxiety more effectively than unclear ones. Process refers to the increased tolerance people feel when they sense that a service has already begun.

Seen through intention, waiting can be understood as productivity, instrumentality, liminality, and socio-psychological experience. Productivity captures how people use waiting to complete other tasks. Instrumentality frames waiting as an investment toward a valued outcome. Liminality marks the transitional state people occupy while waiting. The socio-psychological dimension reflects how intention shapes emotion, from waiting as a display of power to social interactions that make time feel shorter.

Thus, waiting is not idle but shaped by how people perceive and use time. This thesis examines waiting in hospital waiting areas, where multiple forms of waiting coexist. People stare, distract themselves, sleep, talk, queue, hide, walk away, or provide care—behaviours that fall broadly into waiting, working, and locomotion. This raises a key question: Are such behaviours shaped by institutional structures, situational demands, or the spatial environment? The thesis addresses this relationship between building type, space, and human behaviour.

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Memory and Belonging
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Memory and Belonging
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Architecture of a monument: Vasai fort


Memory and Belonging
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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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