Ákos Schneider is a design researcher and an assistant professor at the Moholy–Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME). His research focuses on contemporary design culture, new forms of human–technology relations, posthumanism, and speculative design. At MOME, he leads the Theoretical Studies BA module and founded the Research Unit of New Materialities (R.U.M.). He earned his PhD at MOME’s Doctoral School in 2022. In 2024 he chaired the “Speculative Perspectives” track at the Cumulus conference; between 2023 and 2025 he worked as research lead and later as senior researcher at the Future Potentials Observatory. He was a visiting researcher at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. In 2025 he received the Aurum Futuri Research Excellence Award. He is a member of the Hungarian Somaesthetics Forum. For ten years, he worked as editor-in-chief and journalist at Designisso magazine. He studied design and art management at MOME, and earned degrees in aesthetics and law at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). Recent publications: “The Shape of Things to Come: Design and Speculation” (The Design Journal, 2025); “Entangled Futures: A More-Than-Human Approach to Speculative Design” (in Reclaiming Hope, Centre for Creativity/MAO, 2025); “Towards Distributed Creativity:
Understanding Generative AI in the Context of Design Philosophy and the Material Turn” (Design Research Society, 2025, with Dávid Csűrös); and “Az emberközpontú tervezés határai: Spekulatív design és poszthumán állapot” (Typotex, 2022).