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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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Mass Inhabitation and Elderly Life: Chawls and high rises of Mumbai  

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Shaurya Pawar, 2025


This thesis explores the rapid modernization of Mumbai and its impact on the social  life and everyday practices of the elderly, particularly through the transformation of housing typologies. As traditional chawls give way to high-rise developments to meet increasing urban demands, the study examines this spatial and social transition. Focusing on two sites—Bharat Mill Co-operative Housing Society in Worli and Bedekar Sadan in Girgaon—the research contrasts the spatial configuration of low-rise, community-oriented chawls with vertically expanded high-rises that lack shared social spaces.

This thesis seeks to closely examine and interpret the lived narratives of the elderly to understand how their experiences are shaped by the spatial conditions of the city. Through documentation at the site, cluster, and tenement scales, including interviews and routine mapping, the study investigates how changing spatial forms influence social interaction and the lived experiences of the elderly. Ultimately, it questions how spatial configuration in contemporary housing can be reimagined to sustain and enhance the social life and well-being of the elderly within the evolving urban fabric. It specifically aims to examine how the change in spatial configurations of the two housing types influences the everyday practices and the social interactions of the elderly life. It also aims to propose new ways of envisioning spaces and patterns of living that foster inclusivity and support spatial adaptability for the elderly.

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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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