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. Machines, codes, and cartographies are used as conceptual tools to further understand 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, exhibitions, private projects, and installations. The studio has been awarded prizes in various local and international competitions.

Yota Passia is an architect and design theorist, currently working on a field-based approach to mapping cities and monitoring 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 “research through design” methodologies.

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 focuses on the modulation of form through the a-signifying semiotics’ model and is currently cartographing the form’s capacities to affect and be affected.