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At the Best of MOME ‘23, this year’s top MA diploma projects from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design made their debut on 14 October at the Kastner Kommunity. The event highlighted the questions and issues that occupy the minds of the youngest generation of designers and the various design responses to them.

This year’s Fashion Show, debuting the latest generation of fashion and textile designers of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) concluded with resounding success, drawing a full house twice in a row. In keeping with its traditions of and in sync with international fashion week calendars, MOME organised its unusual fashion event and exhibition in the first week of November, once again attracting a great deal of interest. The creations of the young designers this year were inspired by the circularity of life and materials, with a focus on recycled and biodegradable materials.

This year’s Xarkis Festival, focused around colonisation and intersectionality, will take place in Agros, Cyprus between 15 and 17 July.

Fresh graduates from MOME’s Jewellery Design and Metalwork MA along with their works were featured in the pages of Octogon Magazine. 

The MOME Alumni Jewellery exhibition was organised in collaboration between the Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Centre Bucharest and the MOME Design Institute at the exhibition spaces of the Institute and formed part of the Design Go section of the Romanian Design Week.

Items by two MOME alumni were selected for inclusion in the collection of Schmuckmuseum (Jewellery Museum) in Pforzheim in March: A brooch from Szilvia Rémiás’ BODY LIGHT jewellery collection won the 'Art Jewellery by Young Talents at the Museum' competition, while Nóra Tengely’s ‘TWO’ brooch was purchased by the museum directly.

What does a material tell us? Professor from HAWK Hochschule Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen was in Budapest. As part of an international cooperation, Professor Melanie Isverding, winner of the Herbert-Hofman Prize in 2020, visited our university and gave a lecture and workshop on materials and the related opportunities for narratives for the MA students of Jewellery Design and Metalwork.