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studioentropia is an architecture and research studio established in 2007 by Yota Passia and Panagiotis Roupas. The studio focuses on projects and synergies to understand and visualize how space is produced to allow for change and ecological self-awareness, allowing for our living environments to be organized, inhabited, and structured differently. Apparatuses, codes, and cartographies are used as conceptual approaches for further understanding how and why space changes at different levels and in different ways. Focusing on speculative design and engineering, the studio articulates design ecologies and (auto)generative dynamics in the framework of design competitions, private projects, and installations.
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YOTA PASSIA
ARCHITECT NTUA, M.Sc., PhDc
Yota Passia is an architect and urban researcher, currently working on a field-based approach to map cities and monitor their sociospatial metabolism. She has received her diploma and MPhil in Architecture, at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece where she lectures. Her main teaching interest lies in courses that span the disciplines of architecture and the arts. She currently tutors in undergraduate and postgraduate design studios that focus on “research through design” methodologies. Since 2018, she has been consulting the Municipality of Athens on their urban planning strategies and ongoing projects.
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PANAGIOTIS ROUPAS
ARCHITECT NTUA, M.Sc., PhDc
Panagiotis Roupas holds two professional degrees, one in Graphic Arts (2001) from the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and another in Architecture (MA, 2006) from the National Technical University of Athens. He has completed his MSc degree (2016) in NTUA, where he focused on the modulation of form through the a-signifying semiotics’ model. He is currently undertaking a Ph.D. under scholarship (Special Research Funds Account) in which he is cartographing the form’s capacities to affect and be affected. He is a teaching associate both in NTUA’s School of Architecture undergraduate and master’s program.
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DIMITRIS SKOMVOULIS
CIVIL ENGINEER PUAS
Dimitris Skomvoulis is a civil engineer and a computational designer. His research and career interests include parametric design, digital fabrication, data visualization, and city analysis. In his thesis, he studied the ability of human agents to interact with the built environment and their conflicting or complementary relations. He graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Western Attica (2017) and has completed a course in ETH Zurich, on Smart Cities, in the Department of Architecture.