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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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Between the Edges: Spatial Form and Behavioral Patterns in Streets of Aurangabad  

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Shreeraj Narawde, 2025


This thesis explores the intricate relationship between the architectural form of streets and human behavior, questioning how the built configuration of streets influences the rhythms of everyday life. Streets, often reduced to channels of vehicular movement in contemporary planning, are in fact complex urban spaces where social, economic, and cultural life unfolds. They are sites of encounter, negotiation, and adaptation, spaces where architecture and behavior continuously shape one another.

The research investigates how the form of the street, i.e., its width, edge conditions, thresholds, and materiality, lends itself to various human behaviors, and conversely, how everyday patterns of occupation and movement reconfigure the use and meaning of the street. Through observations across different street types in Aurangabad, ranging from dense market edges to quiet residential lanes, the study decodes how architectural affordances, such as plinths, awnings, compound walls, and medians, give rise to distinct behavioral patterns of pausing, walking, gathering, or vending.

The study situates streets not merely as transit corridors but as transactional/urban spaces that hold the capacity to enable diverse human interactions. It examines how the affordances of form support or limit actions, how a low plinth invites sitting, how a shaded awning encourages lingering, or how a blank wall accelerates walking. These subtle spatial cues shape patterns of visibility, comfort, and safety that vary with gender, age, and class.

Read also under ‘Memory and Belonging’:


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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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