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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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ALLIED STUDIES  





The pedagogical ambition of the Allied Studies courses is to question existing assumptions about the institution. It is an invitation to rethink the architectural institution as largely concerned with producing individuals with capacities to build, towards perceiving it as a collaborative of heterogeneous, distinct and autonomous directions within architecture that inform each other and draw out the merit in each other. The course aims to provide space for such an expanded idea of spatial design, where the design of the self and design of life itself become the key objectives. The courses are structured such that each faculty member anchors a studio that centres the questions that their individual practices seek to investigate. These questions raise a longue durée engagement and are deeply connected to philosophical processes.







ALD001
REPAIR AND RETROFITTING



ALD002
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES



ALD003
CONTEXTUAL TECHNOLOGIES


ALD004
URBAN STUDIES AND DESIGN





ALD005
LIVING IN A METAPHOR


ALD006
THE SCRIBE AND THE LABYRINTH


ALD007
MINIATURE AS METHOD



ALD008
DIGITIAL ANATOMIES & MATERIAL AUTONOMIES





ALD009
SHELTERING IDIOSYNCRASIES OF A HOME



ALD010
US EFUL AND UNUSEFUL OBJECTS



ALD011
IN A CITY PARTS DO NOT MAKE THE WHOLE


ALD012
THE BRICOLEUR :  BRICOLAGE AS METHOD






ALD013
ENVIRONMENT AS A PRACTICE OF CARE


ALD014
THEORISING HOUSING PRACTICES


ALD015
LAPUTA THE FLYING CASTLE


ALD016
ARCHITECTURE OF EXFOLIATION




ALD017
THE ARCHITECTURAL KITCHEN


ALD018
THE SELF & THE STRUCTURE


ALD019
HUMAN ECOLOGY & ARCHITECTURE




ALD020
MEANING  & FORM:  OBJECTS , MOVEMENTS  & SOUNDS




ALD021
PARTICIPATORY DESIGN


ALD022
GENDERED SPACES IN THE CITY




ALD023
BODIES, CITIES, ECOLOGIES:  POSTCARDS FROM MUMBAI AND NAIROBI


ALD024
SOUND MECHANISMS





ALD025
MAKING A PROTOTYPE + PAVILION


ALD026
THINKING THROUGH MOBILITIES


ALD027
CHAIR FURNITURE DESIGN


ALD028
MAKING HOME