Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
Future Potentials Observatory (FPO)
Organization
Legal Form
Nonprofit limited liability company
Founder and Owner
MOME Foundation
Supporters
Ministry of Culture and Innovation
National Research, Development and Innovation Office
National Research, Development and Innovation Office
Our Foundation has established the Future Potentials Observatory Nonprofit LLC in January 2023. Its misson is to investigate, analyse and present the future potentials of social entities (such as family, organization, country), geopolitical frontiers, innovation horizons, design futures and digital futures – all in an EAST-WEST context.
The holistic concept of future potential expresses the readiness of social entities (e.g. family, organization, country) in terms of their ability to preserve a good life for their members in a unity of order through the strategic management of future changes.
The foundations for good life is provided by peace and order, attachment and community, care and generativity, balance and health, while changes appear and require strategic management in the fields of ecology-geopolitics, technology, socio-economy and culture.
Future Potential Index
Antecedent research project
Management
Zoltán Oszkár Szántó
Scientific and Executive Director, Chair of the Executive Committee
Professor of economic sociology and social theory
Marica Sárközi-Kerezsi
Chief Operating Officer, Member of the Executive Committee
Lawyer, specialist in higher education and data protection
Petra Aczél
Member of the Executive Committee
Professor of communication and media studies
Péter Szabadhegy
Manager of International Relations
Businessman, former Hungarian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Roland Jakab
Manager of Corporate Relations
President of the Artificial Intelligence Coalition
Advisory Board
Ongoing research projects
Introducing the Digital Futures Project, a project which seeks to analyse and evaluate global measurement systems with special regards to aspects of future potentials.
Introducing the Design Futures Project, an initiative that aims to dispel misconceptions related to design, map intersections between digital culture and design, analyse micro- and macrotrends in visual culture, and investigate the future of material wellbeing.
Introducing the Geopolitical Frontiers Project - a comprehensive initiative that explores the historical, cultural, and political frontiers in an East-West context.
Introducing the Innovation Horizons Project – a comprehensive initiative that explores innovation horizons in an East-West context.
Introducing the Future Potentials Project - a project dedicated to investigating, analysing and presenting the future potentials of social entities.
Events
The Future Potentials Observatory cordially invites you to the first session of the FPO TALKS lecture series held by security policy expert on the Asia-Pacific region and FPO researcher Dr. Takashi Hosoda from the Social Sciences Department of the Charles University in Prague.
The Future Potentials Observatory’s third international hybrid workshop conference will take place on Thursday, 22 February.
The Future Potentials Observatory (FPO) is pleased to invite you to its 2nd International (hybrid) Workshop dedicated to obtain an overview of its research directions in the fields of Future Potentials, Geopolitical Frontiers, Innovation and Design Horizons and Digital Futures in an East-West context.
The Future Potentials Observatory invites you to a Speaker Series event titled “FPO TALKS” presented by Dr Panka Bencsik, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society and of Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA.
The Future Potentials Observatory invites you to a Speaker Series event titled “FPO TALKS” presented by Dr Rowan Lubbock, Lecturer in International Political Economy of Development at Queen Mary University, London.
The Future Potentials Observatory invites you to a Speaker Series event titled “FPO TALKS” presented by Dr Joanne Yao, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London.
The Future Potentials Observatory (FPO) is pleased to invite you to its 1st International (hybrid) Workshop dedicated to obtain an overview of its initial research plans and directions
in the fields of geopolitical frontiers, as well as innovation and design horizons in an East-West context.
Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University Dr. Fritz Bartel will give a lecture entitled The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Global Origins of Hungary’s 1989. Bartel’s research interests lie in US foreign relations, the global Cold War, grand strategy, and the history of capitalism.