Design and Capitalism
From Viktor Papanek to Matthew Wizinsky, many design theorists and practitioners have argued that design is often part of the problem rather than the solution. Following in the footsteps of Hal Foster, Adrian Forty, Ezio Manzini, Deyan Sudjic, Stuart Walker, Tony Fry, and Jonathan Chapman, we too are setting out to rethink the role of design and the designer. Our conference will present individual and collective design strategies that work within the cracks of capitalism to enrich human relationships and experiences rather than exploit them.
We are looking for initiatives, models, products, interfaces, services, and studios that foster social collaboration, cultivation of relationships, care, or prosocial thinking – whether by going against the logic of consumer society or operating independently of it. We seek to collect good practices and case studies from the present and the past that can inspire the next generation of designers to move towards change.
Programme
12 NOVEMBER
10:00-10:15
10:15-10:30
10:30-10:45
10:45-11:00
10:00-10:15
Ágnes Kapitány & Gábor Kapitány: Beyond Capitalism? A Possible Social Alternative
10:15-10:30
Borbála Timár: The Promise of Ethical and Positive Design – Platformization and Design
10:30-10:45
András Mohácsi: Design and Alienation. Synthesizing Layers: Strategic Balance Between Digital and Analog Lifestyles
10:45-11:00
Questions
"In Search of Alternatives"
Participants: Attila Cosovan, Bori Fenyvesi, Ágnes Kapitány, Gábor Kapitány
Moderator: Balázs Fekete
12:15–12:30
12:30–12:45
12:45–13:00
13:00–13:15
12:15–12:30
Bea Pintérné Sosity: A Transformative Design Model of Disability – Disability as Design Resistance Beyond the Logic of Capitalism
Venue: Auditorium
Eszter Sára Szabó: Pleasure as a Commodity? The Encounter of Feminist Sex-Positive Ethics and Capitalist Market Logic
Venue: Gondűző
12:30–12:45
Ágnes Karolina Bakk: Between Digital Ecofeminist Practices and Technocapitalism – A Situational Analysis of Nature-Based VR Apps
Venue: Auditorium
Ágnes Karolina Bakk: Between Digital Ecofeminist Practices and Technocapitalism – A Situational Analysis of Nature-Based VR Apps
Venue: Gondűző
12:45–13:00
Lili Gárdos: Development Opportunities in Budapest’s Rental Housing Sector – Implementing Tenant Housing Cooperatives
Venue: Auditorium
Botond István Tobai: Countercultural “Products” – Damaged Images, Alternative Apparatuses, the Politics of Experimental Filmmaking
Venue: Gondűző
13:00–13:15
Questions
Bence Csalár: Fashion as Political or Social Statement
Participants:
Erika Varga - founder and designer of Romani Design
Réka Szentesi - fashion researcher, social historian
15:00–15:15
15:15–15:30
15:30–15:45
15:45–16:00
15:00–15:15
Lili Kriston: Ethnic Re-design and Activism in the Fashion Industry
15:15–15:30
Emese Dobos: Decent Work on the Periphery of the Global Fashion Industry – The Ethical Fashion Initiative
15:30–15:45
Kinga Veress: Consumer Experience and Packaging in a Sustainable World
15:45–16:00
Questions
17:30–17:45
17:45–18:00
18:00–18:15
18:15-18:30
17:30–17:45
Janka Csernák: Sharing is Caring – Mycorrhizal Strategies in Social Design
17:45–18:00
Lilla Bényi: Micropublishers and Artists’ Books in Relation to Capitalism (poster)
18:00–18:15
Viktória Biki (Boxfish Labs): The Right to Be Forgotten (Interactive Installation)
18:15-18:30
Questions
WHITE PLASTIC SKY – A film by Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó (2023, 110 min)
13 NOVEMBER
9:45–10:00
10:00–10:15
10:15–10:30
10:30–10:45
9:45–10:00
Péter Hámori: 11. 03. 2011. 14:46
10:00–10:15
Máté Hulesch: Design and Production – The Paradox of Autonomous Design
10:15–10:30
Júlia Őry: Without Blueprint – Studio House, Vence (France), 1984 – A Work by Bálint Nagy and László Rajk, with the collaboration of Gábor Bachman
10:30–10:45
Questions
Anna Göttler: Alternatives for the Future: Regenerative Thinking and Design
Participants:
Attila Mester cultural anthropologist, founding member of Profilantróp association
Apol Temesi textile designer, Sound Wool, MOME
Péter Hámori architect, GUBAHAMORI, MOME doctoral student
Gergely Tasnádi designer
11:45–12:00
12:00–12:15
12:15–12:30
12:30-12:45
11:45–12:00
Sándor Őze: Production System and System Design – Cybernetic Design in Post-Fordist Transformation
Venue: Auditorium
Attila Bujdosó: Designing Organisations – Lessons from the Design and Evaluation of the Social Design Canvas
Venue: Gondűző
12:00–12:15
Ádám Tóth: Forms of Forgetting – Design, Modernity, and Lost Timelessness
Venue: Auditorium
Ádám Molnár: Mobility, Society, and Sustainability – Integrated Design Strategies
Venue: Gondűző
12:15–12:30
Borbála Véghelyi: Furniture Rescue
Venue: Auditorium
Borbála Marosán & Boglárka Varga: Placemaking in the Cracks of Capitalism – A Case Study of Participatory Urban Planning
Venue: Gondűző
12:30-12:45
Questions
Szilvia Gyurkó: Don’t Design Without Us! – Child Participation, Power, and Resistance in Design
Participants:
Abus (15) and Eszter (17), underage colleagues of Hintalovon Foundation
Anna Glatz, child participation expert
Katinka Hajas , artist
14:30–14:45
14:45–15:00
15:00–15:15
15:15–15:30
14:30–15:30
14:30–14:45
Attila Dinnyés: Co-Created Cultural Representation – Dynamic Visual Identity in the Cultural Economy
14:45–15:00
Brigitta Iványi-Bitter: Permeable Spaces – Translating Between Professional Cultures at the Intersection of Design and Technology
15:00–15:15
Dóra Horváth, Attila Cosovan, Máté Bollók: Entry or Exit – Creative Engagement with the Everyday Garden
15:15–15:30
Questions
14:30–15:30
Eszter Zwickl: How to Make a Mistake – workshop
Venue: Gondűző
16:00–16:15
16:15–16:30
16:30–16:45
16:45–17:00
16:00–16:15
Bálint Veres: Being-at-Home in the Age of IKEA
16:15–16:30
Henriett Fiáth: Flat-Pack Democracy
16:30–16:45
Ádám Miklósi: IKEA-Hacking
16:45–17:00
Questions
The Designer's Responsibility - Between Livelihood and the Criticism of Capitalism
Participants: Attila Bujdosó, Bálint Ferenczi, Tamás Fogarasy, Ágnes Muszka, Ákos Schneider
Moderator: Anna Keszeg
Organisers
habilitated associate professor, MA programme lead, supervisor
habilitated associate professor, Tudásközpontvezető, supervisor
Key presenters
Eszter Babarczy
Eszter Babarczy, a philosopher and writer, has been teaching at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design since 2005. She has published essays and columns in the Hungarian and international media, and her fiction was awarded the Déry Prize as well as other awards. Her main interests are philosophy of art, philosophy of modernism, embodied philosophy, and theory of history.
Matthew Wizinksy
Matthew Wizinsky is an award-winning designer, researcher, educator, and author. He is an Associate Professor of Urban Technology at the University of Michigan, where he is developing new approaches to design education for city changemakers. Wizinsky’s recent research and creative work explore pathways for design to transition social practices toward localized and commons-based approaches to need satisfaction. This includes developing new tools and methods for UX and service design workflows as well as public engagements to make commons-based peer production accessible and motivating — maybe even cool! His book Design after Capitalism (MIT Press, 2022) offers various strategies for design practices to transition everyday politics, social relations, and economies. Wizinsky received a PhD in Transition Design from Carnegie Mellon University; an MDes in Design from the University of Illinois at Chicago; BS in Graphic Design from the University of Cincinnati.
Márton Szentpéteri
Márton Szentpéteri is an intellectual historian and full professor of design culture studies at MOME. He studied literary studies and linguistics at ELTE, Budapest; history at CEU, Budapest; and the history of philosophy at IUO, Naples. He has received several postgraduate and postdoctoral grants and scholarships, among which the Rolf und Ursula Schneider Stipendium (HAB, Wolfenbüttel), Mellon Fellowship (NIAS, Wassenaar), Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (University of Oxford), and Josef Dobrovský Fellowship (CAS, Prague) are the most prestigious. His key interests lie in early modern intellectual and cultural history and contemporary design culture.