The programme focuses on living with water, community-based design, and collective ways of thinking. While it is primarily aimed at students with an interest in architecture, it is open to all MOME students. Participants will work in interdisciplinary teams to develop practical, well-designed, and innovative solutions to the challenges of living together in the 21st century, with prizes for the winning teams.

The symposium focuses on a single question: How do we live together as a community?, and provides a forum for students, researchers, and practitioners from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, the Liverpool School of Architecture, and other academic institutions to discuss the many layers and aspects of communal living in urban contexts. Plenary lectures, research and project presentations, and open discussions link theory and practice, situating contemporary student projects within the past, present, and future of community housing. 

PROGRAMME 

9:00–9:10 a.m. 

Welcome and opening remarks 

9:10–10:50 a.m. 

Track 1: GLOBAL HISTORIES OF CO-OPERATIVES 

Johanna Muszbek - Land, Equity and Communal Living Types: Co-operative Housing Histories in Britain 

Juliana Yat Shun Kei - CAN WE BE MODERN? Examining Hong Kong housing through the co-operatives 

Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler - Modes of Collectivity: Contemporary Housing Concepts in Israel and their Origins, 1910-2010 

Ádám Pirity - Collective House: A Community Residential Building from the Decades of State Socialism in Hungary 

11:10 – 12:45 

Track 2: CO-OPERATIVES ON THE FIELD 

Elisa Raciti - Salt Pans, Wetlands, and Shared Futures 

András Kerékgyártó DLA - Around one Table: Designing a Table for the Community – by the Community 

Ágnes Jekli DLA - Visual Communication as an Intercultural Bridge 

Lucy Tarry, Oliver Langdown, Charlotte Brooks, Ryan Headley - Defending Co-operatives: Co-operatives as Defence 

Emese Bukovinszky - False Cooperation - Design Approaches to Hidden Domestic Exploitation 

Janka Csernák DLA - Waterside communities in the city - an exploration of waterfront accessibility and cultural connectivity 

14:00 – 15:50 

DESIGN SPRINT presentations 

Jury: 

Orsolya Sudár PhD (chair) 

Zoltán Erő 

Boglárka Jakabfi-Kovács 

Georgina Szilágyi 

Elisa Raciti 

Márton Péterffy 

16:10 – 17:00 

CLOSING DISCUSSION 

The event was developed by Erzsébet Hosszu, Johanna Muszbek, Zsuzsanna Gál, and Balázs Marián, with project management by Kinga Dér. 

Date and time:  13 February 2026 

Venue:  MOME Auditorium