BUDAPEST DESIGN WEEK x MOME
# Slowly Opening Spaces – a joint exhibition by MOME and the Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta – presents the university’s long-term social design projects, exploring community-based creative processes where design serves as a tool for connection and care. The exhibition’s spatial structure is divided into “fields,” inviting visitors to not only observe but to take part – to step in, look closer, and listen. It reflects on how creative practice can generate genuine social value, strengthen communities, and open up new opportunities for disadvantaged groups. The opening will feature reflections by actor Eszter Balla and a concert by young performers from Zalakomár, followed by a roundtable discussion on participation and social responsibility. The exhibition is organised in collaboration between the MOME Social and Action Lab, the Textile Design programme, and the Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta.
☞Opening: Friday 10 October 2025, 2:00 p.m.
☞ Open: Tuesday, 21 October 2025, daily 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
☞ Venue: Kollab
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# How do theory and practice, artificial and natural, abstract and tangible interact – and where do their most inspiring synergies emerge? The exhibition Passages, featuring works by students from the Product Design BA and Design MA programmes, explores these questions through a diverse selection of projects presented as part of the Budapest Design Week. It ranges from furniture, toy and vehicle concepts to designs developed to improve the hospital experience, with works from both coursework and master’s projects. The installation at Bäse Budapest is created by the exhibiting students together with a group of alumni, supported by lecturer Dániel Lakos. The opening will include a roundtable discussion and a guided tour.
☞ Opening: Saturday, 11 October 2025, 4:00 p.m.
☞ Open: Tuesday, 17 October 2025, daily 1:00–7:00 p.m.
☞ Venue: Bäse Budapest
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# A highlight of the Budapest Design Week, this year’s 360 Design exhibition explores the theme ‘Design Aligns – Creating Together, Living Connected’, focusing on collaborative thinking and the power of interconnected stories. Alongside individual works by several of our students and alumni, visitors can also discover design history exhibitions linked to MOME. One of these is the show first presented in Brussels last year, unveiling the life’s work of Sándor Borz Kováts with contributions from numerous MOME students. A companion exhibition curated by co-curator of the 360 Design show Dr Judit Horváth features selected pieces from the Central Collection of the Hungarian National Museum and the Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts collection by former and current lecturers of the former College of Applied Arts (today MOME) – including interior designers Sándor Mikó and László Juhász, as well as product designers Dániel Lakos and András Kerékgyártó.
☞Date and time: Between 16 and 30 October 2025
☞ Venue: Castle Hill
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# The Museum of Applied Arts invites visitors to several events featuring MOME lecturers during this year’s Budapest Design Week. Glass artist and master instructor Gergely Pattantyús will give a talk titled Craft Tradition in Contemporary Glass Art on Saturday, 11 October from 5:00 p.m., presenting the outcomes of the Social-Glass Design Symposium organised by him to explore the traditional craft of glassblowing and its contemporary reinterpretations. On 10 and 19 October, ceramic artists and lecturers Péter Kemény DLA and Edit Kondor DLA will lead guided tours of the permanent exhibition at the Ráth György Villa. Their personal tours are inspired by the recent addition of their own works to the museum’s collection.
☞ Venue: Ráth György Villa
#MOME product design graduates Blanka Timári and Balázs Kisgyörgy (MAIII collective, whatsit_studio) will hold a workshop titled Modernism Reimagined as part of the Budapest Design Week, hosted by the Hungarian Museum of Architecture. Inspired by the Breuer Collection, the hands-on session invites participants to create modernist bird feeders inspired by Marcel Breuer’s Cape Cod house. The workshop seeks to evoke the atmosphere of the Wellfleet residence, reinterpreting the clean, nature-focused aesthetic of modernist architecture through object design.
☞ Date and time: Sunday, 12 October 2025, 2:00–6:00 p.m.
☞ Venue: Rózsi Walter villa
# HIGHLIGHTS showcases a selection of MOME’s Graphic Design BA student works from the past five years. Opening as part of Budapest Design Week, the exhibition presents bold, boundary-pushing pieces reflecting the students’ progressive creative approach. This pop-up exhibition captures a snapshot of a constantly evolving creative process that crosses into adjacent disciplines, offering insight into how emerging designers and illustrators combine traditional graphic design, typography, and illustration with sound, moving image, micro-animation, and dynamic, programmed interfaces.
☞ Open: 8–19 October (closed on 16–17–18 October)
☞ Venue: Kristály Színtér, Margaret Island
# The Healthperiment exhibition highlights the importance of interpreting our data thoughtfully. While countless apps and striking visual dashboards help us track our physical and mental wellbeing, the real question is what stories these numbers and charts can tell, what meaningful connections they reveal, and how they might help us look after our health. Through creative data visualisations and personal data-gathering projects, the exhibition offers new perspectives on the narratives behind smart devices and statistical reports, transforming them into engaging visual reflections. Developed with professional support from MOME, and contributions from researcher Mihály Minkó and senior project manager Andrea Kovács, the exhibition is part of Magyar Telekom’s “Data Experiment” programme and is featured in the official programme of Budapest Design Week.
☞ Open: 3–9 October 2025
☞ Venue: Telekom HQ, Budapest, 1087 Budapest, Könyves Kálmán körút 36.
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# Szaniter (Bathroom Fixture), an exhibition by the Pompa Copia collective explores the reality of hygiene poverty in Hungary. The collective is made up of students from the Art and Design Management programme, supported by Balka, a management team composed of alumni from the programme.
Created for the Budapest Design Week, the exhibition features installations inspired by spaces of washing and personal care, presented in associative, poetic forms that evoke deeply personal stories. The installations are accompanied by a photographic series shot in real locations, bridging artistic interpretation and documentary truth.
☞Opening: Thursday, 2 October 2025, 7:00 p.m.
☞ On view: 25 October 2025
☞ Venue: KULT7 Gallery
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#From Heritage to Future – The New Life of the Tungsram Factory District – Discover the Tungsram Quarter through guided tours, pop-up exhibitions, immersive spatial installations, and a mini conference, and learn about its heritage and the development opportunities it holds. Although the factory’s 125-year history in Budapest has come to an end, the site remains one of the city’s most significant industrial heritage landmarks. This is now a transitional period – the plant is no longer active, but its transformation has yet to begin. Organised with the involvement of several universities, including MOME, the professional event explores how the industrial built environment, accumulated materials, and knowledge can be harnessed to create a sustainable, socially inclusive, circular, and economically viable urban district.
☞ Date and time: Friday 17 October 2025, 2:30 – 10:00 p.m.
☞ Venue: 1044 Budapest, Váci út 77., main entrance
# At the Design Without Borders exhibition, the Studio B team from MOME – Mátyás Angyal, Levente Balaskó, Eszter Balogh, Alíz Bárczy, Júlia Csuka, Simon Győri, Tamás Kocsis, Boglárka Králik, Orsolya Kroneraff, Luca Lengyel, Dávid Márkus, Domonkos Sinay, Anna Soóki-Tóth, and Borbála Vizi – will present the documentation of the 2025 Architecture MA1 summer building camp. Created for the Fellegajtó Foundation, the project focused on the construction of a pavilion on the foundation’s premises. Alongside the architecture students’ work, the exhibition will also feature projects by numerous designers with ties to MOME, including the MAIII Collective, Itthon Design, Amália Gerstenkorn, Emese Horváth, Flóra Kalivoda, Míra Majoros, Sára Fruzsina Nagy, Dalma Eszter Somogyi, Rita Madarász, Zsófia Zala, Roberta Wende, and many others. Their contributions all offer new interpretations of the boundaries and social roles of design.
☞ Date and time: 18 October – 16 November 2025
☞ Venue: Kiscelli Museum – Church Space
☞ Opening: Friday 17 October 2025, 2:00 p.m.
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# This year’s edition of the Future Materials conference turns the spotlight on the challenges of circular material use, and once again brings together leading voices from industry and academia. The programme focuses on materials for the circular economy, the social responsibility of material innovation, and the role of material science in shaping the future. Built on a holistic, systems-based approach, it features case studies, pilot projects, and international examples, along with a series of hands-on workshops.
☞ Detailed programme coming soon, in the meantime, you can find a little teaser on Mome.hu.
☞ Date and time: Wednesday to Friday, 15–17 October 2025
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