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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
COMMON TALES
This is a story based on the discussions and models of a NXC workshop on the circulation of commons. The…
C’MON COMMONERS
A series of workshops, talks, reading groups and walking days investigating the notion of commons together with creative practitioners and…
SPATIALITIES OF REVOLT AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE
A presentation of Anastasia Kavada (Senior Lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Westminster)…
NOWHERE TO RUN SOMEWHERE TO HIDE
KELVIN Kelvin always liked to escape in his canoe, and was always heading towards the west end of the city.…
CRISIS AND INNOVATION// Princeton University Conference
Participating in an exciting conference at Princeton University that explored the interplay between moments of Crisis and processes of Innovation…
EXARCHEIA NOW!
Event to discuss contemporary economic crisis, radical activity, radical space and political economies of consumer culture. Will include contributions by…
ART AND AESTHETIC RESEARCH ARE NOT IDENTICAL
This is a work inspired by the method of ‘the reading machine that is actually a writing machine’. The original…
HOW TO MAKE A READING MACHINE THAT IS ACTUALLY A WRITING MACHINE
By Christina Christoforou, Orsalia Dimitriou, Adam Drewes, Martin Glaz Serup, Ann-Marie Hanlon, and Andreas Wolfsteiner , printed in a rizograph…
SCRABBLE-A-MANUAL IN ACTION!
Scrabbling manuals for the first time in Copenhagen Symposium on June 2011 produced great ideas and a lot of fun!…
A MANUAL ON HOW TO SCRABBLE-A-MANUAL
For the Copenhagen Interart Symposium on ‘How to do things with academia’ organized by the University of Copenhagen on 16-19…
MAKING DO // Dialogues From Out of This World
Making Do is a collective of artists and designers and an independent publication, based in London. The projects developed by…
MAP FOR THE INTERGALACTIC METROPOLIS
MAKING DO _PLANET X PROJECT Workshop at Manorfield School, East London, Year 5 students ‘A map is a visual representation…
AVATON // @ 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Screening Schedule TONIA MARKETAKI: Sunday, March 13, 2011 – 20:00 STAVROS TORNES: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 – 15:30 (Ursula’s Guest…
COMMON/ SQUATTED/ AUTONOMOUS/ MUNICIPAL/ PUBLIC SPACE
A collaboration between Ursula Dimitriou of Synthetica and Designer Mary Ikoniadou of Future Anecdotes. The poster was presented on the…
AVATON // @ Usurp Art Gallery
Avaton was presented at Usurp Gallery in London on 19/10/10 as part of a screening devoted to social documentaries. Thanks…
AVATON // @ TINAG
First public screening of ‘Avaton’ at TINAG festival in Brick Lane, London! Special thanks to: (for the screening) Deepa Naik…
AVATON [Sanctuary]
Anarchy,Democracy and other ways of Political Participation Avaton is a documentary and at the same time a visual experiment linked…
CITY IS MY HOME™ // Exhibition Opening Night!
Synthetica’s CITY IS MY HOME™ is showcased at London’s King’s Cross! Glass lobby of Austin-Smith:Lord doubles as an unorthodox exhibition…
ARCHITECTURAL JARGON*
*Your project does not really makes any sense but still you want to publish it/present it/build it? Afraid that it…
REAL ESTATE AGENT’S DREAM
Henry went to sleep feeling tired and preoccupied. The last week in the office was exhausting. He had shown over…
CITY IS MY HOME™
What would you design if you were asked to create a product that comprises aspects of sustainability, energy saving, efficiency…
SUBTLE INTERVENTIONS
Do you think that London’s open spaces are perhaps a bit dull? Would you prefer them slightly more animated and…
CAMP GAIDOURONISSI // Resourcefulness and Sustainability of Self-Made Housing
Presented at O3on Gallery/22-30.09.2008/Belgrade/Serbia/for Redesign your mind 2 Gaidouronissi, a small island south of Crete, has only five permanent inhabitants.…
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