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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 Between work and home: Spatial shifts in Sakkarsaath

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Parth Agrawal, 2025


This thesis aims to delve into the distinct work/life dynamic that developed across a street in the inner area of  Sakkarsaath in the northern part of the city of Amravati.  ‘Niche dukaan, upar makaan’  isn’t a new concept in spatial and typological studies of neighborhoods across cities in India. Such a mixed-use pattern has been merited to counter the high polarisation that functional segregation principles of modern planning brought to Indian cities.  While the spatial aspects of such mixed use indicate non-generic results, their effect on social life varies from place to place.

Sakkarsaath in Amravati followed the niche-dukaan upar makaan typology format, but did not show signs of mergings of commerce and domesticity; rather, they existed as highly segregated spaces while being within the same unit. Over the years, I noticed the street morphing, on a micro as well as a macro scale, the commerce began spilling, while the domestic quietly and slowly confined itself. In here, I’ve tried to argue about how this typology, which would be assumed to bridge the gap between work and life, did not work in the specific market of Amravati. Through conversations with members of several households along the Sakkarsaath street in Amravati, I have tried to unpack the ways in which morphing spatial conditions detach them from the immediate environment on the one hand, while compelling them to reinvent new geographies of sociality on the other. I map the domestic life as it unfolds within the commerciality of the neighbourhood, whilst opening up the in-between conversations, sometimes with a unit, whilst sometimes across them. In the end, it asks the question about the spatial imagination of the typology, understanding its shortcomings, and talking about the adaptability between the aspects of commerce and domestic.






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Memory and Belonging
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Galalelya jaga ("गाळलेल्या जागा"): overlaps of memory and home


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Architecture of a monument: Vasai fort


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Architecture and memory: remembering home in involuntary dislocation

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Dhruv Chavan, 2018

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On Sindhi refugees: making home in Jalgaon


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Khushboo Tejwani, 2024

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Retrofitted domesticities


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Nikunj Dedhia, 2020

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Architecture and healing: civil war inversion of public space Borella, Colombo

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Rutu Kelekar, 2018

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Spatiality of remembrance: encounters between the native and urban

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