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A MOME a bolognai képzés indulása óta szervez velencei tanulmányutakat a tervezőhallgatók, valamint az elméleti és a menedzserképzés számára. A részvétel a képzőművészeti és az építészeti biennálén az egyetemi oktatás meghatározó eleme: a közös kiállításlátogatások, szakmai beszélgetések segítik az eligazodást a kortárs művészet nemzetközi intézményrendszerében, formálják a hallgatók világképét, az inspiráció pedig jóval túlmutat a közvetlen élményen.

The recipients of the Stefan Lengyel Scholarship of Excellence for the spring semester of 2026 have been announced. The sixteen winning projects include an animated series exploring children’s rights, a contemporary cemetery and memorial site, an inclusive tableware set for children, a documentary on collective trauma, and a project exploring the legacy of Tungsram.

This year, the MOME community celebrated the graduates of twelve MA and nine BA courses in a festive ceremony. Speeches were given by interior designer Mrs. Bánki née Laura Szerdahelyi, one of our jubilee graduates, who turns 91 this year and designed the interiors of Déli Railway Station; Curator and László Moholy-Nagy’s grandson Daniel Hug; and designer Stefan Lengyel, who is celebrating a milestone anniversary this year. In addition to conferring the degrees, this year’s Rector’s Special Awards and several professional awards were announced, and the Gold, Diamond and Iron jubilee graduates also received their certificates.

Two projects linked to MOME took first place in the Hungarian round of the International Union of Architects (UIA) Architecture and Children Work Programme’s UIA Golden Cubes Awards, organised in Hungary by the Association of Hungarian Architects.

In 2025, the Hegyvidék Local Council launched a student ideas competition for students of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, inviting proposals for the revitalisation of the disused urban block bordered by Szoboszlai Street – Böszörményi Road – Beethoven Street and its surrounding area. The brief called for a renewed urban vision, and first year MA students from the MOME Architecture Institute spent the semester developing complex design responses for the site. The Árkay Prize was awarded to the most compelling designs, with first prize going to Eszter Hegedűs and Boglárka Számuel, and the shared second prize to duos Bence Huszár and Renáta Tribel as well as to Hanga Izabella Reppert and Emese Szakál; the proposal by László Juhász and Áron Náray received a commendation. An exhibition of the competition entries is on view at Barabás Villa until 25 February 2026.

What water-related housing challenges does the 21st century face? How can water become a force for community building, and how might collective design and shared action form part of the solution? These questions are explored by the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) through a new international collaboration. The design sprint Co-operatives: Living with Water Collectively is an intensive Course Week course that brings together international and Hungarian students to develop community concepts around water as a shared resource and to rethink adaptive housing models in terms of fair and creative access to water. The programme is delivered with the support of the British Council, in collaboration with the Liverpool School of Architecture’s Global Housing Design Programme, the Architecture MA at MOME’s Centre for Architecture, and the MOME Society & Action Lab.

How can the former Tungsram factory district, once home to 12,000 workers, be brought back to life? What does collaboration between the university and the Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta look like? And how can data visualisation help interpret health data collected from smart devices? These are just a few of the questions explored through MOME’s events at this year’s Budapest Design Week. Alongside the fields most closely linked to classical product design, the university’s students and researchers will present a wide range of projects, from socially engaged design to urban-scale interventions and contemporary challenges in visual culture and material innovation, offering a comprehensive picture of MOME’s complex professional activities.

A Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetemre jelentkezni nem csupán egy képzési forma melletti döntést jelent, sokak számára hosszú ideje dédelgetett álom, szakmai és alkotói célkitűzés. Éppen ezért a felvételi eredmény elmaradása csalódás lehet, különösen akkor, ha csak néhány pont választotta el a jelentkezőt a bekerüléstől... A folytatásra több lehetőség is van, nem muszáj feladni. A MOME oktatási ökoszisztémájában számos olyan alternatív útvonal létezik, amely segít újratervezni, továbblépni, akár frissen érettségizettként, akár már diplomásként.

Organised with professional support from MOME for the 3rd year in a row, the CheckINN Revitaliser idea competition invited university students from across Hungary to submit plans for the revitalisation of approximately 12,000 hectares of unused rust zone and brownfield sites in the country for potentially touristic purposes. The winning team, whose members include several MOME students, focused on rejuvenating the barren Pilis-tető by repurposing its abandoned buildings and restoring the surrounding natural environment.

A team of MOME students have won first place at the CheckINN Revitalisator competition. First launched by the CheckINN Turisztikai Innovációmenedzsment Kft and MOME last year, the competition invites university and college talents to seek solutions for the reuse of rust zone sites in teamwork. From the nearly 30 teams, INDOOHÁZ received the first prize for giving new life to abandoned railway water reservoirs as bivouacs for backpackers.

Summer came to an end with a truly unique event held in the buildings of the Inota Thermal Power Plant in Várpalota. The INOTA - Audiovisual Festival at the power plant event series had several MOME affiliations, as collected below.

The latest season of the Architectural Matters public event series launched by the MOME Architecture Institute and moderated by Zoltán Neville was concluded by a presentation by architect and urban planner Jens Richter from the estudio Herreros architect firm. Following the talk, he was interviewed by MOME alumna Lilla Gollob for Octogon Magazine.