Ákos Schneider PhD
assistant professor, head of Theoretical Studies, supervisor
Institute for Theoretical Studies
head of Theoretical Studies
Institute for Theoretical Studies
assistant professor
Doctoral School
supervisor

Ákos Schneider is a design culture researcher and a philosopher specializing in aesthetics. He is an assistant professor and head of the Theoretical Studies module at MOME.

Fields of education
design and art theory
philosophy
design culture studies
writing practice
Fields of research
design philosophy
digital culture
philosophy of design
contemporary design
speculative and more-than-human design

Biography

He earned his PhD from the Doctoral School of MOME in 2022 and published his first book, "The Limits of Human-centered Design: Speculative Design and Posthuman Condition" (in Hungarian) the same year. He organized and co-chaired the Speculative Perspectives track at the Cumulus Budapest 2024 conference. In 2023, he served as co-leader of the Innovation and Design Horizons research project at the Future Potentials Observatory and is currently a research fellow there, focusing on the interplay between digital culture and contemporary design. In 2022, he was the conference secretary of the The Promise of Pragmatist Aesthetics Conference and is a member of the Hungarian Forum of Somaesthetics. Schneider has authored numerous articles and interviews in contemporary art and design and was editor-in-chief of Designisso magazine from 2015 to 2023. As a recipient of the Hungarian National Excellence scholarship, he focused on design and artistic research. Additionally, he has been a visiting researcher at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. He regularly participates as a consultant and editor in higher education development projects. He studied design and art management at MOME and earned degrees in aesthetics and law from ELTE.

Awards, recognition

Campus Mundi visiting researcher scholarship, 2018

New National Excellence Programme (ÚNKP) researcher scholarship, 2017-2018

Publications

Publication title
The Limits of Human-centered Design: Speculative Design and the Posthuman Condition. Budapest: Typotex, 2022. (Hungarian)
Shrinking beyond scale: Technology, speculative design, human-centricity. Helikon 2020/3: 396–407. (Hungarian)
Children of the Assembly Line: The problem of the cyborg in the light of human-centred design. Disegno IV/1-2: 58-71. (Hungarian)
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