KEYNOTES

VLADAN JOLER

Vladan Joler is an academic, researcher, and artist whose work blends data investigations, counter-cartography, investigative journalism, writing, data visualisation, critical design, and numerous other disciplines. He is a professor at the New Media Department of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and co-founder of SHARE Lab.

Vladan’s work explores and visualises different technical and social aspects of algorithmic transparency, digital labour exploitation, invisible infrastructures, and many other contemporary phenomena in the intersection between technology and society. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Design Museum in London, as well as in the permanent exhibition of the Ars Electronica Center.

Keynote: New Extractivism

16 MAY 2024, THU · 9.00 CEST

Master Building, Auditorium (M_114)

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Hedvig Harmati

Hedvig

Harmati

Hedvig Harmati textile artist, university professor, head of the MOME Doctoral School. She obtained her DLA in Textile Design, in 2009. She served as head of the Textile Department for 14 years and she has set up and led the Future Traditions international design research and curriculum development. Her professional focus is textile and structure design, and she is responsible for the quality assurance of the Textile and Fashion Design MA program. As part of her position at the Doctoral School she actively supervises doctoral research with different focuses on textile design. In 2017 she received the Ferenczy Noémi Prize, one of the most important art awards in Hungary.

Plenary Talk: Future Traditions – Design Research and Curriculum Development

17 MAY 2024, FRI · 9.45 CEST

Master Building, Auditorium (M_114)

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

PETRA ACZEL

PETRA

ACZEL

Dr. Petra Aczél is a full professor of communication and rhetoric at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME). Born in Budapest, she studied at Eötvös Loránd University where she earned the PhD degree of linguistics and rhetoric. She has in-depth expertise in leading, guiding and teaching in university programs in Hungary and abroad. Her re­search interests focus on the theory and practice of rhetoric, new media communication and more recently, future skills. She has published 8 books and over 220 academic papers. Her latest works include Visual Hybrids (article), Poetics Today, 2023; Screening the Future Faces of Rhetoric (article), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2022; and Future Shock or Future Chic? Future human skills in the context of technological proliferation(chapter), Palgrave, 2021. She is member of the national Research Excellence Council, the Hungarian Accreditation Committee and the Committee of Communication and Media Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Plenary Talk: Pour in or Surround? – Education Design in the Age of AI

16 MAY 2024, THU · 9.45 CEST

Master Building, Auditorium (M_114)

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

LASMA IVASKA

LASMA

IVASKA

Lāsma Ivaska is the Director of the Innovation Center at Moholy Nagy University of Art & Design, where she currently oversees the university’s design research activities, student business incubation, and lifelong learning offerings. Prior to moving to Budapest, Lāsma co-created the first innovation district and smart city testbed for startups in Riga, Latvia. Her career also includes managing open innovation at Accenture Baltics and leading market research at Gateway & Partners, where she focused on international sales consulting.Lāsma holds an MA in English Literature & Politics from the University of Glasgow and an MSSc in Urban Economics from Riga Technical University. She is also a co-founder of the non-profit Repair Cafe Riga, promoting sustainable community practices by teaching young people to repair electronics, bikes, and clothing.

Plenary Talk: Design for Life in an Era of Climate Crisis

17 MAY 2024, FRI · 16.00 CEST

Master Building, Auditorium (M_114)

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE