studioMDA is an international group of designers with a wide range of skills and perspectives working in an open studio that encourages collaboration. Founded by Markus Dochantschi in New York City in 2002, the studio has worked on projects in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Masachusetts, Ohio, Vermont, Alaska, Florida, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, Turkey, Peru, Chile, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Malawi.