diff --git a/backend/src/routes/api/namespaces/namespaceUtils.ts b/backend/src/routes/api/namespaces/namespaceUtils.ts
index 05b1a7dc7f..c55387debb 100644
--- a/backend/src/routes/api/namespaces/namespaceUtils.ts
+++ b/backend/src/routes/api/namespaces/namespaceUtils.ts
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ export const applyNamespaceChange = async (
     case NamespaceApplicationCase.DSG_CREATION:
       labels = {
         'opendatahub.io/dashboard': 'true',
-        'modelmesh-enabled': 'true',
       };
       break;
     case NamespaceApplicationCase.MODEL_SERVING_PROMOTION:
diff --git a/frontend/src/api/k8s/projects.ts b/frontend/src/api/k8s/projects.ts
index 02224aa101..6426c79578 100644
--- a/frontend/src/api/k8s/projects.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/api/k8s/projects.ts
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ export const getProjects = (withLabel?: string): Promise<ProjectKind[]> =>
     queryOptions: withLabel ? { queryParams: { labelSelector: withLabel } } : undefined,
   }).then((listResource) => listResource.items);
 
-export const getDSGProjects = (): Promise<ProjectKind[]> =>
-  getProjects(LABEL_SELECTOR_DASHBOARD_RESOURCE);
-
 export const createProject = (
   username: string,
   displayName: string,
diff --git a/frontend/src/concepts/projects/ProjectsContext.tsx b/frontend/src/concepts/projects/ProjectsContext.tsx
index b9e25bca1e..7d3342965d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/concepts/projects/ProjectsContext.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/concepts/projects/ProjectsContext.tsx
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 import * as React from 'react';
 import useFetchState, { FetchState } from '~/utilities/useFetchState';
-import { getDSGProjects } from '~/api';
+import { getProjects } from '~/api';
 import { KnownLabels, ProjectKind } from '~/k8sTypes';
+import { useDashboardNamespace } from '~/redux/selectors';
 
 type ProjectFetchState = FetchState<ProjectKind[]>;
 type ProjectsContext = {
   projects: ProjectKind[];
+  dataScienceProjects: ProjectKind[];
   modelServingProjects: ProjectKind[];
   /** eg. Terminating state, etc */
   nonActiveProjects: ProjectKind[];
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@ type ProjectsContext = {
 
 export const ProjectsContext = React.createContext<ProjectsContext>({
   projects: [],
+  dataScienceProjects: [],
   modelServingProjects: [],
   nonActiveProjects: [],
   preferredProject: null,
@@ -44,39 +47,55 @@ type ProjectsProviderProps = {
 };
 
 const ProjectsContextProvider: React.FC<ProjectsProviderProps> = ({ children }) => {
-  const fetchProjects = React.useCallback(() => getDSGProjects(), []);
+  const fetchProjects = React.useCallback(() => getProjects(), []);
   const [preferredProject, setPreferredProject] =
     React.useState<ProjectsContext['preferredProject']>(null);
   const [projectData, loaded, loadError, refreshProjects] = useFetchState<ProjectKind[]>(
     fetchProjects,
     [],
   );
+  const { dashboardNamespace } = useDashboardNamespace();
 
-  const { projects, modelServingProjects, nonActiveProjects } = React.useMemo(
+  const { projects, dataScienceProjects, modelServingProjects, nonActiveProjects } = React.useMemo(
     () =>
       projectData.reduce<{
         projects: ProjectKind[];
+        dataScienceProjects: ProjectKind[];
         modelServingProjects: ProjectKind[];
         nonActiveProjects: ProjectKind[];
       }>(
         (states, project) => {
-          if (project.status?.phase === 'Active') {
-            // Project that is active
-            states.projects.push(project);
-            if (project.metadata.labels?.[KnownLabels.MODEL_SERVING_PROJECT]) {
-              // Model Serving active projects
-              states.modelServingProjects.push(project);
+          if (
+            !(
+              project.metadata.name.startsWith('openshift-') ||
+              project.metadata.name.startsWith('kube-') ||
+              project.metadata.name === 'default' ||
+              project.metadata.name === 'system' ||
+              project.metadata.name === 'openshift' ||
+              project.metadata.name === dashboardNamespace
+            )
+          ) {
+            if (project.status?.phase === 'Active') {
+              // Project that is active
+              states.projects.push(project);
+              if (project.metadata.labels?.[KnownLabels.DASHBOARD_RESOURCE]) {
+                states.dataScienceProjects.push(project);
+              }
+              if (project.metadata.labels?.[KnownLabels.MODEL_SERVING_PROJECT]) {
+                // Model Serving active projects
+                states.modelServingProjects.push(project);
+              }
+            } else {
+              // Non 'Active' -- aka terminating
+              states.nonActiveProjects.push(project);
             }
-          } else {
-            // Non 'Active' -- aka terminating
-            states.nonActiveProjects.push(project);
           }
 
           return states;
         },
-        { projects: [], modelServingProjects: [], nonActiveProjects: [] },
+        { projects: [], dataScienceProjects: [], modelServingProjects: [], nonActiveProjects: [] },
       ),
-    [projectData],
+    [projectData, dashboardNamespace],
   );
 
   const refresh = React.useCallback<ProjectsContext['refresh']>(
@@ -114,6 +133,7 @@ const ProjectsContextProvider: React.FC<ProjectsProviderProps> = ({ children })
     <ProjectsContext.Provider
       value={{
         projects,
+        dataScienceProjects,
         modelServingProjects,
         nonActiveProjects,
         preferredProject,
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/modelServing/screens/projects/ServingRuntimeModal/ManageServingRuntimeModal.tsx b/frontend/src/pages/modelServing/screens/projects/ServingRuntimeModal/ManageServingRuntimeModal.tsx
index a9ae72648b..c70a8f9725 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/modelServing/screens/projects/ServingRuntimeModal/ManageServingRuntimeModal.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/modelServing/screens/projects/ServingRuntimeModal/ManageServingRuntimeModal.tsx
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ const ManageServingRuntimeModal: React.FC<ManageServingRuntimeModalProps> = ({
     ])
       .then(() =>
         Promise.all<ServingRuntimeKind | string | void>([
-          ...(currentProject.metadata.labels?.['modelmesh-enabled'] && allowCreate
+          ...(currentProject.metadata.labels?.['modelmesh-enabled'] === undefined && allowCreate
             ? [addSupportModelMeshProject(currentProject.metadata.name)]
             : []),
           ...(editInfo?.servingRuntime
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/projects/screens/projects/ProjectListView.tsx b/frontend/src/pages/projects/screens/projects/ProjectListView.tsx
index 757853dba4..cdd3751c6f 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/projects/screens/projects/ProjectListView.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/projects/screens/projects/ProjectListView.tsx
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ import * as React from 'react';
 import { Button, ButtonVariant, ToolbarItem } from '@patternfly/react-core';
 import { useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom';
 import Table from '~/components/table/Table';
-import useTableColumnSort from '~/components/table/useTableColumnSort';
 import SearchField, { SearchType } from '~/pages/projects/components/SearchField';
 import { ProjectKind } from '~/k8sTypes';
 import { getProjectDisplayName, getProjectOwner } from '~/pages/projects/utils';
 import { useAppContext } from '~/app/AppContext';
 import LaunchJupyterButton from '~/pages/projects/screens/projects/LaunchJupyterButton';
 import { ProjectsContext } from '~/concepts/projects/ProjectsContext';
+import { ProjectScope } from '~/pages/projects/types';
 import NewProjectButton from './NewProjectButton';
 import { columns } from './tableData';
 import ProjectTableRow from './ProjectTableRow';
@@ -17,16 +17,18 @@ import ManageProjectModal from './ManageProjectModal';
 
 type ProjectListViewProps = {
   allowCreate: boolean;
+  scope: ProjectScope;
 };
 
-const ProjectListView: React.FC<ProjectListViewProps> = ({ allowCreate }) => {
+const ProjectListView: React.FC<ProjectListViewProps> = ({ allowCreate, scope }) => {
   const { dashboardConfig } = useAppContext();
-  const { projects: unfilteredProjects, refresh } = React.useContext(ProjectsContext);
+  const { projects, dataScienceProjects, refresh } = React.useContext(ProjectsContext);
   const navigate = useNavigate();
   const [searchType, setSearchType] = React.useState<SearchType>(SearchType.NAME);
   const [search, setSearch] = React.useState('');
-  const sort = useTableColumnSort<ProjectKind>(columns, 0);
-  const filteredProjects = sort.transformData(unfilteredProjects).filter((project) => {
+  const filteredProjects = (
+    scope === ProjectScope.ALL_PROJECTS ? projects : dataScienceProjects
+  ).filter((project) => {
     if (!search) {
       return true;
     }
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/projects/screens/projects/ProjectScopeSelect.tsx b/frontend/src/pages/projects/screens/projects/ProjectScopeSelect.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b5512f73db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/projects/screens/projects/ProjectScopeSelect.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+import * as React from 'react';
+import { Select, SelectOption } from '@patternfly/react-core';
+import { isInEnum } from '~/typeHelpers';
+import { ProjectScope } from '~/pages/projects/types';
+
+type ProjectScopeSelectProps = {
+  selection: ProjectScope;
+  setSelection: (selection: ProjectScope) => void;
+};
+
+const isProjectScope = isInEnum(ProjectScope);
+
+const ProjectScopeSelect: React.FC<ProjectScopeSelectProps> = ({ selection, setSelection }) => {
+  const [isOpen, setOpen] = React.useState(false);
+  return (
+    <Select
+      selections={selection}
+      width="200px"
+      onToggle={(open) => setOpen(open)}
+      onSelect={(_, selection) => {
+        if (isProjectScope(selection)) {
+          setSelection(selection);
+        }
+        setOpen(false);
+      }}
+      isOpen={isOpen}
+    >
+      {[
+        <SelectOption
+          key={ProjectScope.DS_PROJECTS}
+          value={ProjectScope.DS_PROJECTS}
+          description="Only projects created in the Data Science Dashboard are displayed."
+        />,
+        <SelectOption
+          key={ProjectScope.ALL_PROJECTS}
+          value={ProjectScope.ALL_PROJECTS}
+          description="All available projects created in the Data Science Dashboard and OpenShift are displayed."
+        />,
+      ]}
+    </Select>
+  );
+};
+
+export default ProjectScopeSelect;
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/projects/screens/projects/ProjectTableRow.tsx b/frontend/src/pages/projects/screens/projects/ProjectTableRow.tsx
index a54934e7dd..cba59d1fd9 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/projects/screens/projects/ProjectTableRow.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/projects/screens/projects/ProjectTableRow.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import * as React from 'react';
-import { Text, TextVariants, Timestamp } from '@patternfly/react-core';
+import { Flex, Label, Text, TextVariants, Timestamp, Tooltip } from '@patternfly/react-core';
 import { ActionsColumn, Td, Tr } from '@patternfly/react-table';
-import { ProjectKind } from '~/k8sTypes';
+import { KnownLabels, ProjectKind } from '~/k8sTypes';
 import useProjectTableRowItems from '~/pages/projects/screens/projects/useProjectTableRowItems';
 import useProjectNotebookStates from '~/pages/projects/notebook/useProjectNotebookStates';
 import ListNotebookState from '~/pages/projects/notebook/ListNotebookState';
@@ -28,9 +28,18 @@ const ProjectTableRow: React.FC<ProjectTableRowProps> = ({
   return (
     <Tr>
       <Td dataLabel="Name">
-        <ResourceNameTooltip resource={project}>
-          <ProjectLink project={project} />
-        </ResourceNameTooltip>
+        <Flex spaceItems={{ default: 'spaceItemsXs' }} alignItems={{ default: 'alignItemsCenter' }}>
+          {project.metadata.labels?.[KnownLabels.DASHBOARD_RESOURCE] && (
+            <Tooltip content="Data Science">
+              <Label isCompact color="green">
+                DS
+              </Label>
+            </Tooltip>
+          )}
+          <ResourceNameTooltip resource={project}>
+            <ProjectLink project={project} />
+          </ResourceNameTooltip>
+        </Flex>
         {owner && <Text component={TextVariants.small}>{owner}</Text>}
       </Td>
       <Td dataLabel="Workbench">
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/projects/screens/projects/ProjectView.tsx b/frontend/src/pages/projects/screens/projects/ProjectView.tsx
index a5417e8169..b97ea06781 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/projects/screens/projects/ProjectView.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/projects/screens/projects/ProjectView.tsx
@@ -4,8 +4,11 @@ import { useAccessReview } from '~/api';
 import { AccessReviewResourceAttributes } from '~/k8sTypes';
 import { ProjectsContext } from '~/concepts/projects/ProjectsContext';
 import useMountProjectRefresh from '~/concepts/projects/useMountProjectRefresh';
+import { useBrowserStorage } from '~/components/browserStorage';
+import { ProjectScope } from '~/pages/projects/types';
 import EmptyProjects from './EmptyProjects';
 import ProjectListView from './ProjectListView';
+import ProjectScopeSelect from './ProjectScopeSelect';
 
 const accessReviewResource: AccessReviewResourceAttributes = {
   group: 'project.openshift.io',
@@ -14,7 +17,11 @@ const accessReviewResource: AccessReviewResourceAttributes = {
 };
 
 const ProjectView: React.FC = () => {
-  const { projects } = React.useContext(ProjectsContext);
+  const [scope, setScope] = useBrowserStorage<ProjectScope>(
+    'odh.dashboard.project.scope',
+    ProjectScope.DS_PROJECTS,
+  );
+  const { projects, dataScienceProjects } = React.useContext(ProjectsContext);
   useMountProjectRefresh();
   const [allowCreate, rbacLoaded] = useAccessReview(accessReviewResource);
 
@@ -26,12 +33,17 @@ const ProjectView: React.FC = () => {
           ? `View your existing projects${allowCreate ? ' or create new projects' : ''}.`
           : undefined
       }
+      headerContent={<ProjectScopeSelect selection={scope} setSelection={setScope} />}
       loaded={rbacLoaded}
-      empty={projects.length === 0}
+      empty={
+        scope === ProjectScope.ALL_PROJECTS
+          ? projects.length === 0
+          : dataScienceProjects.length === 0
+      }
       emptyStatePage={<EmptyProjects allowCreate={allowCreate} />}
       provideChildrenPadding
     >
-      <ProjectListView allowCreate={allowCreate} />
+      <ProjectListView allowCreate={allowCreate} scope={scope} />
     </ApplicationsPage>
   );
 };
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/projects/types.ts b/frontend/src/pages/projects/types.ts
index 89de7934e3..74645f665d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/projects/types.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/projects/types.ts
@@ -136,3 +136,7 @@ export enum ConfigMapCategory {
   GENERIC = 'configmap key-value',
   UPLOAD = 'configmap upload',
 }
+export enum ProjectScope {
+  DS_PROJECTS = 'Data science projects',
+  ALL_PROJECTS = 'All available projects',
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/typeHelpers.ts b/frontend/src/typeHelpers.ts
index 65026cdb5f..48cb3f1e57 100644
--- a/frontend/src/typeHelpers.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/typeHelpers.ts
@@ -93,3 +93,8 @@ export type EitherNotBoth<TypeA, TypeB> = (TypeA & Never<TypeB>) | (TypeB & Neve
 export type EitherOrNone<TypeA, TypeB> =
   | EitherNotBoth<TypeA, TypeB>
   | (Never<TypeA> & Never<TypeB>);
+
+export const isInEnum =
+  <T extends { [s: string]: unknown }>(e: T) =>
+  (token: unknown): token is T[keyof T] =>
+    Object.values(e).includes(token as T[keyof T]);