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Tuesday, 2011-10-04
STUDIO BAESTARTS
October 4, 6.
1036 Budapest, Perc street 6
Tuesday, Thursday 13:00-17:00
Studio Baestarts was founded seven years ago with the aim of producing high quality animation films and non-violent films for children for international distribution. In addition to several international feature films the studio awarded at many festivals has produced its own projects like the image of Minimax children's TVstation, the outstandingly successful Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs series, or the BAFTA nominated Log Jam. The studio works closely with the Animation Department of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design; many recently graduated students work at Baestarts led by András Erkel producer. Presently they work on the preparation of a feature film based on Dániel Varró's fairy tale novel titled Beyond the Splodge hill and on the production of a new series of Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs, in the work process of which visitors can look into.
www.studiobaestarts.com
POLITICAL DESIGN STUDIES
PRACTICE AND IDEOLOGY IN THE SOCIALIST AUTOMATIVE INDUSTRY
October 4.
10:00
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
1121 Budapest, Zugligeti street 9-25.
In the framework of the interactive presentation spiced up with period factory promos, advertisement spots and documentaries the audience is introduced into the secrets of the socialist automative industry. During the program an old-timer show complete with technical presentations takes place in front of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, at the end of which visitors can take a 50-year old Ikarus 55 bus to the Erzsébet Square building of Design Terminal.
Presentations
Car-body under the political press
Presenter: Jenő Boros, Népszabadság, journalist
Urban legend and reality – Skoda and Zsiguli
Presenter: Zsolt Csikós, Totalcar, journalist
The genius and the wrong track of the Soviet automotive industry
Presenter: Péter Varga, expert of the soviet automotive industry
The rise and fall of Hungarian mini cars
Presenter: Pál Négyesi, magyarjarmu.hu, editor
The Hungarian world-wide fame – Csepel, Rába, Tünde, Panni
Presenter: János Hidvégi, Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport, museologist
Moderator: Attila Hidegföldi, Volga-Csajka Automative Club, chairman
Organised by the Volga-Csajka Automative Club and the Traburg Club
DESIGN FROM THE WESTERN LANDS
October 4. 17:00
MUSEION No.1 Gallery
1091 Budapest, Üllői street 3.
Open: September 27. - October 7.
Tue-Fri 12:00-18:00
The exhibition introduces the design, architecture and graphic design BA projects and five-year course diploma works of Sopron-based AMI (Institute of Applied Arts at the University of West Hungary). Glass and ceramic pieces made as a result of the cooperation between the Institute and the Kecskemét-based International Ceramics Studio represent a significant part of this year's exhibition.
Organised by AMI and Museion No. 1 Gallery
SOCIO-DEKO – METALICA
October 4. 17:00
Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism
1036 Budapest, Dugovics T. square 13-16.
Open: October 5. - November 6.
Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00
The next program of the socio-deko exhibition series organised for this year's Budapest Design Week introduces visitors into the world of the metal-based object culture of the 1960's, 70's and '80's. The aim is not a comprehensive presentation of the era's metal culture, but to call the attention to the objects effecting the visual culture of not too distant times and to start a discussion between the generations of elder days and the present.
Back then an angel made of metal wire descended in Budapest camouflaged as a candle-holder and a period celebrity...
DESIGN TAKEAWAY
October 4. 18:00
FISE Gallery
1054 Budapest, Kálmán Imre street 16.
Open: October 4-22.
Tue-Fri 13:00-18:00, Sat 11:00-14:00
Commercially available objects of high quality that have been introduced at the Gallery of the Studio of Young Artists Association in the past five years are showcased at the exhibition, yet this time the installations are not based on functions, but on style: superfunctions, upcycling, top design, souvenir. The unusual exhibition aims at introducing visitors into present day Hungarian design through successful small serial products that can even be taken home a few hours after seeing them.
Organised by FISE
FORMA 6
ENERGY/DESIGN/MOBILITY
October 4.
18:00
MMKM Elektrotechnikai Museum
1075 Budapest, Kazinczy street 21.
Open: October 4-8.
Tue-Fri 10:00-17:00, Sat 9:00-16:00
The exhibition first organised seven years ago presents the best assignment works and plans from the students of the industrial product and design engineering faculty of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. This year the focus is on the use of alternative energies and ecodesign.
Organised by the Hungarian Museum of Electrotechnics and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
MODERN APARTMENT, 1960
THE EXPERIMENTAL ÓBUDA HOUSING ESTATE
October 4.
18:00
Kiscelli Museum
1037 Budapest, Kiscelli street 108.
Open: October 4. - November 30.
Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00
from November 1.: Tue-Fri 10:00-16:00,
Sat-Sun 10:00-18:00
The history of the experimental Óbuda housing estate developed in the beginning of the 1960s presents the essence of one of the possible solutions for the post-war housing shortage. The small apartments featured several novelties in the field of floor-plans and interior design, while the use of built-in furniture opened a new chapter in the history of interior decoration. The aim of Kiscelli Museum's exhibition is the presentation of certain buildings and interiors of the housing estate, as well as its residents with the help of original documents, architectural plans, photos, films and sound recordings.
The exhibition is accompanied with lectures and different museum programs. Further information: www.btm.hu
STORIES FROM CENTRAL EUROPE
EXHIBITION OF RECENT WORKS BY TOM SLOAN, INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER
October 4.
18:00
Blood Mountain Foundation
1025 Budapest, Vérhalom street 27/c
Open: October 4-30., The exhibition is open between 12:00 and 18:00 during Design Week (4th and 9th October) between 10th and 30th October by appointment only.
Stories from Central Europe displays a selection of used functional objects revived with subtle contemporary interventions by Tom Sloan, industrial designer.
Part of the opening event is a public talk by Tom Sloan, Creative Director of Blood Mountain Productions and Jade Niklai, Director of the Blood Mountain Foundation to discuss the broader ambitions of Bthe Blood Mountain collective and why “Stories from Central Europe” is timely and crucial in defining Hungary’s contemporary design culture.
The talks are in English and free!
Blood Mountain (BM) is a creative collective comprising a non-profit arts organisation, Blood Mountain Foundation (BMF) and a design and communications agency, Blood Mountain Productions (BMP). Based in Budapest and working at the intersection of art, architecture and design, BM’s mission is to generate new discourse and to encourage the production of new work through design projects, curatorial and educational programs, artists’ residencies and by participating in external exhibitions and events. BM’s participation in the 2011 Budapest Design Week is the first collaboration between the two partnership organisations, which were founded in 2009 by Hungarian-born curator Jade Niklai and Australian industrial designer, Tom Sloan. For more information about BMP’s practice and BMF’s program visit our website: bloodmountain.org.
FISE DESIGN DUEL
October 4. 19:00
FISE Gallery
1054 Budapest, Kálmán Imre street 16.
The 3-4 member teams of FISE (Studio of Young Artists Association) artists – each member representing a different profession – have to use the materials and tools made available on the spot to prepare creative design objects related to FISE i three hours. Winners are selected on the basis of supporters' votes and can exhibit at the Gallery in the following year. The best objects might even end up being produced as FISE souvenirs. The work of the competing teams can be watched in the Gallery's shop window and the footage can later be seen on the FISE web site.
Organised by FISE
OCTOPOLY – DESIGN WISELY!
October 4. 19:00
MakettLabor
1093 Budapest, Pipa street 4. ground floor 4.
Open: October 4-21.
Mon-Sat 12:00-18:00
University students chosen in the framework of the OCTOPOLY – Design wisely! workshop designed and built the communal spaces of this year's Sziget Festival's Multi-Arts Site. The exhibition presents how students arriving from different faculties (architecture, media design, graphic design, textile design, landscape-architecture, industrial design, design and art management) solved the problems and become a cooperative team thinking, working, designing and building together.
6th October 18:00
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Prominent representatives of the Hungarian design sphere and students participating at the workshop discuss how the workshop managed to underline the role of design in responsible and environment-conscious thinking, whether enough attention was paid to concepts and objects promoting sustainable development during the planning and the building process.
8th October 8. afternoon
CITY WALK
With the help of the Ferencváros Community Foundation the objects were taken to the schools of the 9th district after the Sziget Festival. In the framework of the city walk the creations can be seen in their new environments.
Detailed program: facebook.com/octopoly, medencecsoport.hu
Organised by Medence Csoport, MakettLabor and Kultúrgorilla