Studio SYN have completed a commercial refurbishment project in Dalston, East London. Large open plan ground floor space in a…
Victoria Apartment Refurbishment
Ursula Dimitriou and Despoina Tsafou designed an apartment refurbishment in downtown Athens. The focus was remodelling the apartment in a…
Votanikos House
Ursula Dimitriou and Despoina Tsafou completed the refurbishment of a neoclassical house in downtown Athens for a private client. The…
Frith Street Gallery
We gained a lot of project experience from working with other architectural practices before setting up Studio SYN. We bring…
Barnes Street House Extension
Tower Hamlets, London. The project turned an old outrigger kitchen into a new heart of the house. Done for a…
Kinnoull Mansions, Clapton, London
Clapton, London. A ground floor apartment refurbishment in a mansion block. Key to this proposal was the demolition of…
Lagonisi House and Yoga Studio
This project is for a detached house with a flexible internal layout. The interior space is designed for a yoga…
Performance Architecture, Online Summer School 2020
Studio SYN, in association with VIPA and RIPS, has organized a PERFORMANCE ARCHITECTURE Online Summer School, from 20 June to…
Balancing Acts I – V
“They are all ladies. They are doing ok. The have produced and reproduced and they are more or less finely…
Performing Architecture, Body, Movement, Space Workshops
In 2018 and 2019 Ursula Dimitriou, Eliza Soroga, Aliki Kylika and Kyveli Anastasiadi led two workshops for BA and MA…
M-E-A-N-W-H-I-L-E Dalston
Studio Syn have started ‘Meanwhile Spaces’ initiative of turning commercial and industrial spaces in-between occupancies into art spaces, projection rooms,…
Suspended Levitation
In December 2018 Dejan was invited by the curator Lida Stamou, managing director of Lalousis Foundation to take residency at…
Beyond the Silence
How can we address the silence that is haunting us from within? Beyond the Silence enacts a dialogue between performative drawing,…
Radical Arts, Critical Architecture – Degree Show at Central Saint Martins 2018
Studio SYN runs a design unit, Studio 7, at BA Architecture at Central Saint Martins. This year the design brief…
Making Week at Central Saint Martins 2018
In February 2018 Studio SYN lead a group of second and third year BA students at Central Saint Martins’ Making…
Four Corners of the World, STORE’s Summer School 2018 in Dalston
Ursula and Dejan of Studio SYN teamed up with Erika and Anders of Office TEN to to form a tutor…
The Gates of Vice
We gained a lot of project experience from working with other architectural practices before setting up Studio SYN. We bring…
Vice Magazine HQ
We gained a lot of project experience from working with other architectural practices before setting up Studio SYN. We bring…
The Measure of Man
This 4-channel video work is seeking out the human scale and human place in the vastness of the two largest…
Fanfare for a Non-Place
A new video work psycho-mapping the train journey between Beijing and Shanghai with the help of progressive rock. The video…
Chasing Synchrony 2.0 video wins Jerwood Drawing Student Prize!
Chasing Synchrony 2.0 video receives one of the two Jerwood Drawing 2017 student prizes. Alongside other 3 prizes, Chasing Synchrony…
Chasing Synchrony 2.0 wins Red Mansion Art Prize 2017!
Chasing Synchrony 2.0 was chosen by the Red Mansion panel of judges as the 2017 winner for Central Saint Martins.…
Pluto Pantokrator
Pluto Pantokrator is an immersive installation re-purposing elements of works produced in between 2015 and 2017 at Central Saint Martins…
In Abeyance
Five Years gallery at Archway, London, provided space for a group show “This is Not What I Asked For” –…
(Un)Drawing for Two
(Un)Drawing for Two is a performative drawing work that is revisiting Tools For New Ways of Being by drawing out the…
Chasing Synchrony 2.0 performed at Central Saint Martins
This collaborative performative drawing work is a quest for those brief moment of synchrony, in which the body actions of…
Chapter Arts Centre
We gained a lot of project experience from working with other architectural practices before setting up Studio SYN. We bring…
UAE Cultural Quarter Masterplan and Art Studios
We gained a lot of project experience from working with other architectural practices before setting up Studio SYN. We bring…
Brook Valley Housing Development
We gained a lot of project experience from working with other architectural practices before setting up Studio SYN. We bring…
Urbs Redux
Charcoal drawing but not on paper – in Urbs Redux, I break away from paper to take the drawing to the…
Self-Portrait with Pluto, in CSM Art Auction
Dejan’s drawing ‘Self-Portrait with Pluto’ is on auction at CSM Art Auction from 10th to 17th of November at Lethaby…
Tools for New Ways of Being, Central Saint Martins
This work addressed the interest topics of mark-making, event, body limits and reduction of commodifiable artwork. A large cross-like…
Kensington Flat Refurbishment
Kensington, London. An apartment refurbishment for a client with a classic taste. Every room in the apartment was refurbished and…
Making Week at Central Saint Martins 2016
In February 2016 Studio Syn’s Ursula and Dejan worked together with a team of Central Saint Martins BA Architecture students…
Notting Hill Residency
We gained a lot of project experience from working with other architectural practices before setting up Studio SYN. We bring…
The Lands Beyond, drawing on show at The Laundry, E9
The largest drawing so far from the series of drawings The Lands Beyond by Dejan of Studio SYN will be…
The Lands Beyond, drawing series
Studio SYN’s Dejan Mrdja continues to explore his interest in politics, social structures, power relations, migrations, and cyclical occurrences through…
Drawing SWANS exhibited at Big Space V, Central Saint Martins
The work SWANS is building on Dejan’s previous exploration of the notions of oppression, power abuse, trauma, displacement, transience, journey maps…
Urban Realities Blind Date/ Ljubljana (SI)
In cooperation with the Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana an interactive Blind Date of European architects, planners and experts…
Designing the Urban Commons- Exhibition at LSE
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Studio SYN wins the Designing the Urban Commons competition!
Rainbow of desires “Rainbow of desires” is a set of small pavilions installed in the open spaces of the Rhodes…
SYN among the finalists for Urban Realities/Blind Date in Ljubljana
“Urban Realities”is a workshop and exhibition where the three selected finalists teams will present their ideas and collaborate on the…
Spatial Politics: On Commons and Public Spaces //Stavrides talk @Central Saint Martins
Increasingly under neoliberal attack the urban public spaces become simultaneously the terrain of violent conflicts, the loci of urban movements,…
DESIGNING THE COMMONS//workshop@ THE FIELD
This workshop, open to all CSM students, seek to investigate the role of designers in imagining the commons, setting common…
Contested Squares and Social Uprising // @ Central Saint Martins
As part of the Contested Spaces forum taking place in the Crossing at Central Saint Martins during the CSM degree…
LCMF, London Contemporary Music Festival fit-out
LCMF, “the capital’s most adventurous and ambitious festival of new music” as named by The Guardian, took over a former…
COMMON SENSES // @ Manchester School of Art
Common grounds, common practices // @ Architectural Association
31 January 2014 – HCT Debates / Architecture Politics: Orsalia Dimitriou MA History and Critical Thinking Debates / Architecture Politics…
DIAVATON // @ EMPROS THEATER
Premier of our film DIAVATON at EMBROS theater! Embros is an occupied and self-managed historic theater in the centre…
DIAVATON [transversabe]
Synopsis ‘Diavaton’ is a short film ( 35min ) for the occupy moment in Syntagma (Constitution) square in the summer…