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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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Spatialities of Everyday Associations : Cases from Charkop Streets    

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Prarthna Shah, 2025


In urban living, the larger physical environment deeply impacts how people live, move and interact in and around the city. The tangible built environment of the cities, its streets, buildings, and public spaces shape the intangible, everyday experiences. The work initially started with provocations about how the spatial planning, structure, and physical form of a city or neighbourhood influence the everyday lives of its inhabitants.

The streets function beyond the set purpose of transit, accommodating a range of everyday activities, and act as stages for daily encounters, negotiations, and interactions between people.  These micro-networks and relationships between people play a pivotal role in flourishing a neighbourhood. Recent patterns of redevelopment in the  context of Charkop, Mumbai have been  increasingly associating urban growth with vertical expansion. The existing  Low rise and Mhada housing are rapidly being replaced by high rises, altering the neighborhood’s morphology and its everyday associational life.  The research paper explores the interdependencies between the morphology of neighbourhoods, particularly through the form and configuration of street edges, and the everyday associational life that unfolds within them.

Through close observations around the streets of Charkop, Kandivali, it was observed that the upsurge of high rise typologies in a dense neighbourhood, gradually homogenizes the street edges into a standardized form of commercial frontages, reducing the layered social and cultural life that once animated these spaces. Contradictingly, it emerges that a neighbourhood requires multiplicities in the forms of street edges. Each of the varied edge conditions support distinct and essential aspects of everyday associational life and these varied edge types collectively shape the diversity in the urban forms of the neighbourhood.

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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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