Dezeen School Shows: a lamp collection, designed with moveable parts for customisation, is among the projects from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.
Also featured is an electric bike design with interchangeable components to suit user needs, and an interactive installation that forms a landscape around the viewer.
Institution: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
School: Master of Arts
Courses: Animation, Design, Designer-Maker, Interaction Design, Art and Design Management and Photography
Tutors: Tibor Bánóczki, András Kerékgyártó, Flóra Vági, Tamás Fogarasy, Gábor Élbi and Krisztina Erdei
School statement:
“Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) is an internationally oriented university in the heart of Europe, one of the continent’s most vibrant creative regions. Here, art, design and architecture are seen as powerful drivers of societal transformation.
“Rooted in the legacy of László Moholy-Nagy – one of the Bauhaus’s most influential innovators – MOME brings together experimental practice, critical thinking and responsible creativity to shape a more sustainable, liveable and just future.
“MOME educates designers, creators, researchers and thinkers who respond to complex challenges with innovative, value-driven approaches. The university offers a truly interdisciplinary environment where education, research and innovation intersect, connecting local relevance to global discourse.
“Rather than promoting a single methodology or ideology, MOME embraces dialogue and creative tension between diverse perspectives, from which emerge new knowledge, experimental practices and future visions.
“International students can pursue six English-language master’s programmes: Animation, Design, Designer-Maker, Interaction Design, Art and Design Management and Photography.”
Terrasona by Ivett Vivien Nagy
“Terrasona is an audiovisual, interactive installation that invites the visitor to create a natural landscape around themselves through sound and visual elements.
“In doing so, they generate a personal imprint, manifested as both a sonic and visual terrain, that may reflect complete harmony or chaos.”
Student: Ivett Vivien Nagy
Course: Animation
Tutor: Viktória Szabó
Email: anim[at]mome.hu
Chymera by Sebestyén Ócsai and Uros Gavriolic
“Chymera is a high-tech e-bike system with modular driver-profile capabilities. Its three interchangeable components allow for dynamic customisation to suit the user’s needs, providing easy maintenance and flexible space for multiple riders.
“The bike has electronically adjustable seating, pedals and handlebars. The provider’s app stores preferences and settings under the driver profile, so the bike automatically adjusts itself on every unlock.
“Its rear module offers a primary rider’s seat with a passenger seat behind, while two front modules are available: a streamlined city setup with adjustable handlebars and a “nose” area for everyday bags; and a cargo front with a large space for bulky items and seating for two children or one adult.
“All parts are designed from accessible, serviceable sub-parts for maintenance and fast circulation.”
Students: Sebestyén Ócsai and Uros Gavriolic
Course: Design MA – Smart mobility
Tutor: András Húnfalvi
Email: designma[at]mome.hu
The Stone and the Man by Fülöp Bechtold
“This work focuses on observing the unique behaviour of glass and the simultaneous presence of its states of matter. The cast pieces are not sculptures in the traditional sense, but masses and situations brought into context through intentional placement of elements.
“These relationships open up subtle fields of meaning: suspension, balance, absence, and the shifting role of artistic intention.
“The compositions are not closed or final, but rather defined states whose meanings unfold through the viewer’s attention – through a gaze that seeks connection and intentionality, echoing questions of hierarchy, authorship and the relationship between creator and work.”
Student: Fülöp Bechtold
Course: Designer-Maker
Tutor: Gergely Pattantyús
Email: designermaker[at]mome.hu
Possible Side Effects – Disorder by Luca Boncz
“Possible Side Effects – Disorder is a material-based artistic project rooted in the artist’s personal experience of panic disorder.
“Following her first panic attack and diagnosis, she began researching how anxiety, shame, treatment and healing can be translated into objects.
“The work consists of a patchwork blanket made from medical documents, diaries, textiles, and personal materials and an eye mask composed of 1,350 handmade pill imitations, the exact number prescribed during treatment.
“Together, these objects form an intimate installation that reflects neurodivergent reality, the blurring effects of medication and the non-linear process of recovery, balancing vulnerability, care and self-acceptance.”
Student: Luca Boncz
Course: Designer-Maker
Tutor: Flóra Vági
Email: designermaker[at]mome.hu
Attentive Tangible Interface by Viki Pere and Brigitta Burkus
“Recent technological advancements have led to the popularity of touchscreens in car user interfaces. Instead of navigating the cars using physical buttons, users now interact through a single interface.
“We suggest a concept instead, where several other options are available, such as holding objects or showing 3D maps.
“Further development of the project was carried out in collaboration with Mátyás Lelkes.”
Students: Viki Pere and Brigitta Burkus
Course: Interaction Design
Tutors: Péter Molnár and Viktor Horváth
Email: ixd[at]mome.hu
Don’t Look Up! by Zsófia Kérdy and László Majsai
“This installation shows how climate change discussions are often taken over by noise and misinformation.
“At the top, you see quiet, tweet-like messages from people who accept that humans cause climate change – they are easy to miss.
“Below, a fast, bright stream of denial tweets takes over the space, showing how false claims get more attention in the media.
“The title, Don’t Look Up, refers to the film where people ignore a coming disaster — just like many ignore the reality of climate crisis.”
Students: Zsófia Kérdy and László Majsai
Course: Interaction Design
Tutor: Ágoston Nagy
Email: ixd[at]mome.hu
Mome Fair by Viola Csanády, Viktória Hacskó, Panni Horányi, Janka Huszák, Lilla Ocskay, Julianna Lili Urbán and Luca Wéber
“Mome Fair is a design market organised by students of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, offering students the opportunity to present and sell their designer products to a wider audience.
“Visitors can purchase unique, handcrafted objects while directly supporting emerging Hungarian designers.
“In 2025, four MOME Fairs were organised by Art and Design Management students, both on campus and at external venues.
“Continuing a long-standing tradition, the fair has evolved beyond a student project into an established brand with its own identity, message and dedicated audience.”
Students: Viola Csanády, Viktória Hacskó, Panni Horányi, Janka Huszák, Lilla Ocskay, Julianna Lili Urbán and Luca Wéber
Course: Art and Design Management
Tutors: Gábor Ébli and Fruzsina Tunner
Email: adm[at]mome.hu
Intermezzo festival by Viola Csanády, Máté Eros, Anna Fekete, Bálint Márk Kalmár and Laura Kovács
“The Intermezzo Festival is a collaborative initiative between Mome and the Hungarian House of Music, organised by students in close cooperation with professionals.
“The one-day festival explores new dimensions of the relationship between music and visuality through experimental audiovisual experiences.
“Featuring concerts, exhibitions, workshops and multimedia installations, Intermezzo aims to foster a more conscious engagement with art.
“Set in the award-winning building of the Hungarian House of Music, the festival creates a vibrant community around music and design, where sound, image and space merge into a unique, immersive experience.”
Students: Viola Csanády, Máté Eros, Anna Fekete, Bálint Márk Kalmár and Laura Kovács
Course: Art and Design Management
Tutor: Ádám Krasz
Email: adm[at]mome.hu
Hellish Eden by Franciska Legát
“Hellish Eden explores the tension between paradise and destruction. The work presents an Eden-like world that is simultaneously seductive and disturbing, where beauty coexists with decay and threat.
“Through symbolic imagery, it reflects on human responsibility, moral contradiction and the consequences of exploitation.
“The piece invites viewers to question the illusion of harmony and to recognise how easily an idealised paradise can turn into its own hell.”
Student: Franciska Legát
Course: Photography
Tutors: Ábel Szalontai and Anna Fabricius
Email: photography[at]mome.hu
Reflecta lamp collection by Nóra Szilágyi
“Reflecta is a lamp collection inspired by the original Hungarian Szarvasi lamps, featuring easy-to-combine parts.
“The project aims to revive and breathe new life into the legacy of the locally well-known, but by now mostly defunct lamp manufacturer, Szarvasi with a modern approach.
“The design takes into account the existing technologies used by Szarvasi Lámpa Manufaktúra to ensure sustainable manufacturing.
“Aimed at young, design-conscious individuals with smaller apartments, the lamps offer flexible lighting, direct and indirect illumination and a nostalgic touch through movable parts that create playful light effects, blending tradition with contemporary design.”
Student: Nóra Szilágyi
Course: Design MA – Strategic product innovation
Tutor: András Húnfalvi
Email: designma[at]mome.hu
Partnership content
This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.
