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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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Feeling Spaces: Autistic bodies in built environment

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Ruchi Kalantri, 2025


This thesis investigates  how autistic individuals experience, inhabit, and change architectural spaces through sensory and behavioral negotiation. Most built environments are designed with neurotypical assumptions, often overlooking the sensory needs and perceptual differences of autistic people. Features like bright lights, loud sounds, strong smells, or crowded layouts can easily overwhelm them. Unclear boundaries or sudden changes in space may trigger anxiety and withdrawal. This disconnect not only causes discomfort but also reinforces exclusion, making everyday places inaccessible or isolating.

To address this issue, the study examines how autistic children see, interpret, and engage with their environments. I conducted fieldwork at an autism center, mainly using qualitative observation. I documented the children’s gestures, postures, and movement patterns as expressions of comfort, curiosity, or stress. Field notes, sketches, spatial mappings, and photographs (where allowed) recorded their interactions in therapy room , play areas, and transition spaces. Informal talks with parents and caregivers added context by highlighting sensory sensitivities and daily routines.

Findings indicate that autistic bodies do more than occupy space; they negotiate, reshape, and sometimes withdraw from it to maintain sensory balance. Each movement, pause, and repetitive gesture serves as a form of spatial communication. By understanding these embodied negotiations, this research redefines autistic perception as a different kind of spatial intelligence. It calls for architecture to create environments that are compassionate, responsive, and inclusive in both design and experience.

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Spatialities of everyday heritage



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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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Chinmay Kadwadkar, 2018

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Architecture and memory: remembering home in involuntary dislocation

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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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Tanishqa Rodrigues, 2020

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