Presentations

The 100 year old Wilkhahn, manufacturer of ergonomic high class products is proud of its past, but its new products are for the world of the future. An outstanding example for this is the ON chair that is unbelievably comfortable thanks to the so-called Trimesion technology – you can move forwards, backwards and sideways without leaving the chair. The perfect proof is the badminton competition organised with the ON chair in the leading role aiming at underlining the relationship between design, ergonomy and sport. Get healthy during working hours!

Computer games, let them be software or hardware tools, have a great effect on our everyday lives. The related industry has become the “New Hollywood” of our time and – thanks to the work of street artists – some of the most famous figures reappear as icons of popular culture on the public spaces of cities. The presentations, complete with creative workshops, discuss the interactions between computer games and different art forms.

LOFFICE co-working launches a film club during Design Week led by Attila Varró film critic, lecturer at the Film Studies department of Eötvös Lóránd University Budapest, editor of the leading film monthly Filmvilág, acclaimed publicist and translator. The screening takes place in the loft space of LOFFICE co-working created by young designers and fine artists that has been functioning as a co-working space and cultural venue since 2009. The aim of the event is to inspire young film fans also open for design for discussion and to activate social relations by the foundation of a value creating community.
Title of the screened film: Cube2: Hypercube (colour, dubbed sound, Canadian horror, 95 min, 2002, director: Andrzej Sekula)

On the first day starting from 3:00 p.m. Switch Lab gives a lecture about the development of touch-based and no-touch interfaces, then from 4:00 p.m. the experts of Igen Design present their most recent research results from the field of alternative representation of space and from 6:00 p.m. the Robotics Student Workshop of Gábor Dénes College, Budapest present their ideas about interactive robot programming.

With the exhibition of its art teachers the institution would like to emphasize the variegation of contemporary art and the high level of high school art education. The selection also aims at motivating students planning to apply for studying at the school and influencing the future plans of art majors. Exhibiting artists: Zoltán Bánföldi painter, Sarolta Deli textile designer, Etelka Jakab fashion designer, Katalin Kappanyos textile designer, Réka Kontur leather designer, Zsuzsanna Laposa textile designer, István Lőrinczi packaging designer, Melinda Molnár-Madarász fashion designer, Zsuzsa Rátkai textile designer, Csilla Szarka painter. A series of lectures is also organised as a satellite event.

Do you want to know what we work on and think about in our creative workshop? We offer you a taste of our June Tokyo theatre cooperation, as well as the results of the July 'Internet of Things' workshop. We also present the interactive animation, with which we participated as the Budapest venue together with six other European cities at the Media Facades Festival. But you can also try 'Cross connect' that was invited to the Linz based Ars Electronica and the 'BYMM – Beat Your Mouse Movement' project. We will also have a guest in the person of Dutch graphic designer Annelys de Vet with whom we drop the flag on making Hungary's Subjective Atlas.
12:00 – 19:00 a taste of KIBU
19:00 – 20:00 presentation of Annelys de Vet (in English)

Ceramic tile novelties and trends – a report of the Cersaie Exhibition
The afternoon event gives a report of the annual Bologna Exhibition and Fair is interesting for the profession, as well as for the wide public.
18.00 Ecodesign today, in Hungary and abroad
József Zalavári, Noémi Ferenczy Award winner product designer, senior lecturer shared his experience, knowledge gained in the field of environment-conscious design in the book Design of the form – Designecology. In the framework of his lecture he talks about the present Hungarian and international situation of eco-design. Key topics: A new approach to our environment and objects. The philosophy and esthetics of eco-design. Definitions and processes. Methods and practice, objects and designers. How can we be eco-designers and successful at the same time?

De gustibus non est disputandum – There is no accounting for taste. Or is there? On the world wide web virtual taste communities hurrah certain artifacts, objects, while stigmatising anything that is different. Taste creates a group, creates identity. This time we look for groups of taste with the help of a special test. Will they find each other offline, too? Depends on them.