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What place do folklore, climate protection, or isolation have on the runway? What does fashion and fashion design mean to Gen Z? How are the centres and peripheries of the fashion industry shifting in the 21st century? These are just some of the questions explored at this year’s MOME Fashion Show through collections reflecting the latest design thinking and a series of special accompanying events.

Six participants in the ‘Tomorrow Belongs to You – For the creative talents of the future’ 2025 scholarship programme are about to begin their BA studies at MOME, while three others have been admitted to the University of Szeged, Óbuda University, and the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. The numbers speak for themselves: the second cohort of the scholarship, launched in 2023, has truly helped its students take their first steps towards a creative career, transforming them from high schoolers into university students.

For the fourth time, the MOME Photography programme and TOBE Gallery are putting on a joint exhibition. Exhibition VITAMIN D marks a new chapter in the collaboration between the university and the gallery – an opportunity for young artists to step beyond the walls of the university and present their work in a professional setting.

How does a monumental community initiative like the MOME forest planting reshape student networks? What defines the university’s cycling community? How can we grasp the diversity of the vegetation on the Zugligeti Road Campus? These are the questions answered by the data physicalisation projects created by second-year Designer Maker BA students. The works were developed during the spring 2025 course ‘Data in Space’, run in collaboration with MOME Zero/the Office for Ecological Sustainability and the Designer Maker programme.

At this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Mihály Schwechtje’s upcoming feature Hairpin Turn Driving School was presented in the Eastern Promises section. The programme, which spotlights Central European co-productions, awarded the Marché du Film Producers Network Special Prize to the project’s producer, MOME Art and Design Management alumna Genovéva Petrovits. The award comes with an invitation to attend next year’s Cannes Film Festival as an official guest.

This summer, MOME returns to the Valley of Arts Festival with its very own venue – the Harcsa Veronika × MOME Courtyard, where visitors can join workshops and interactive sessions, and discover how sustainability, learning, and design come together.

From Berlin to Oberhausen to Sarajevo – Wish You Were Ear, a diploma film by Mirjana Balogh about the imprints of romantic relationships, continues its journey through the international festival circuit. Following its triumph at the 71st Berlinale, where it received the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film, the animation has now been selected for the international student film competition at the prestigious Sarajevo Film Festival.

Eighteen gifted secondary school students from disadvantaged backgrounds successfully completed the spring semester of ‘Tomorrow Belongs to You – For the Creative Talents of the Future’, MOME’s scholarship programme for 2025. The initiative gave them the chance to explore the worlds of design, architecture, visual communication, art, and innovation up close, while helping them prepare for further studies in the creative industries. The semester wrapped up with a celebration in July.

Q&Alumni sorozatunk következő részében Tóth Ádámmal beszélgettünk, aki 2018-ban végzett a MOME-n formatervezőként. Ádám az aktív egyetemi évek után megalapította a Malom Projekt elnevezésű designstúdiót, amely termékfejlesztéssel, belsőépítészettel foglalkozik, műanyag és természetes anyagok újrahasznosításával kísérletezik, emellett kreatív foglalkozásokat is tart. Több projekten is együtt dolgozott a MOME-val is, például a tavaly elkészült Művészetek Völgye Pavilonon, amely idén is várja a látogatókat Kapolcson a MOME × Harcsa Veronika udvarban! Erről a projektről és még sok másról mesélt nekünk Ádám.

Water still feels like a given in our everyday lives – but for how much longer? This pressing issue was tackled by secondary school students in the 2025 edition of the ‘Jump into the Future!’ creative competition. Working in teams, pupils from Years 7 to 10 developed bold, imaginative ideas for the future of one of life’s most essential resources. In the second round, selected teams refined their concepts in close collaboration with MOME mentors. At the final on 25 June, ten teams presented their forward-thinking visions, with four of them awarded by a jury of MOME faculty. First place went to Ísbíltúr, second to Bacsaók, third to Code Noir, while Newwave received a special prize. All four stood out not only for their creativity, but also for their systems-level approach, serving as a powerful reminder that water scarcity is no distant threat but an issue we must act on now.

How can we make better use of public transport infrastructure? What would a truly fast and effective life-saving device look like? And how can we save agriculture in a world without bees? These are just a few of the questions addressed by our design students, and their imaginative, forward-thinking answers have earned international recognition in the Design Concept category of one of the world’s most prestigious design competitions, the Red Dot Award. Seven projects mentored through the MOME Red Dot submission programme stood out from the global competition this year, including diploma projects and semester-long university projects.

This year’s graduation ceremony celebrated the present and future of the university, the true MOME identity and the power of dreams. 320 students received their diplomas, and the day also saw the launch of new traditions that added depth to MOME’s most cherished event. Held at the RaM-ArT Theatre, the ceremony honoured recipients of the Rector’s Special Awards, alumni with milestone anniversaries, and the winners of the Wartha Award and the Award for Ethical Behaviour in Architecture.