[ Дејан Мрђа ]
My name is Dejan Mrdja, I am an artist, architect and educator.
In my art practice I use a range of media, such as drawing, painting, performance, video, sculpture and installation. I am interested in the notions of cognition, body action, repetition and rhythm, mark-making, personal and political identity, and population displacement.
My art is often participatory. I am always interested to deliver intense, immersive experiences for the audience and participants alike. I regularly collaborate with professionals from other disciplines – music, linguistics, media and architecture.
Education
MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
Dipl. Ing. Arch.,University of Belgrade, Serbia
Further Reading
Transdisciplinarity
I work across three disciplines (art, architecture and education), which enables me to open up new realms of perception, maintain critical thought and action, and ensures that my practice is situated and immersive.
Work in Architecture
I am one of the founding members of Studio Syn_, an interdisciplinary architecture and interior design practice based in London and Athens. Our design approach is holistic and critical – we combine our design savvy, common sense, intuition, empathy and our practice in art.
Work in Education
Since 2015 I have taught postgraduate (MA) and undergraduute (BA) architecture courses at a number of UK universities, such as Central Saint Martins (CSM) and University of Greenwich (UoG) in London, Welsh School of Architecture (WSA) in Cardiff, Leeds Beckett University (LBU) in Leeds, University of West England (UWE) in Bristol and others.
When I teach I focus on art methodologies, collaborative and site-specific practices and on imagining future architectures for societies based on principles of social empowerment and radical empathy.