Sustainablity Research Group
The World, as we are currently living in it, is not sustainable.
We would like to change that.
We redesign the World: Creatively, Energetically and Optimistically.
To make it sustainable.
WHAT WE DO? MOME EcoLab is the sustainability research group of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, Hungary. It’s an open, creative and intellectually engaging design lab. Our aim is to create positive value where it is most needed. We achieve big impact with small interventions to make our World more sustainable.
Socially Responsible Design Creative Redesign
Knowledge and Information Center
Education /Workshop /Presentation Design for Sustainability Eco Innovation
Raise waves!
WHO WE ARE? Our method is to work in a multidisciplinary environment with university students and young designers. To achieve success, we involve professionals during our work process from a high range of different disciplines.
Daniel Barcza DLA
founder of EcoLab, director of MOME Design Institute
Katalin Holányi industrial designer
Zsolt Gunther DLA architect
Eszter Kollár
furniture design student
Design NGO-s
architecture
Universities
media
Partner firms
theoretical studies
Júlia Oravecz
Bori Fehér
Sára Berzicza
Évi Tornyánszki
design management student
architect, design manager, program leader
Because of love, only!
Bori Kovács
industrial design student, project manager
Independent professionals
Specialists from outside
Inside Specialists
industrial designer
geographer, design management student
Edit Nagy
enviromental manager
Panni Pais
industrial design student, sociologist
HOW WE WORK? We sit, we stand up, we ask, we draw, we write our ideas on post-its, we create systems, we crumple them, rethink them. Then we design, re-design, debate, and also often agree. We turn the World upside down, and afterwards, we take a big look at it: Does it work like that?
Turn it!
Creative Redesign
Design for Sustainability
Socially Responsible Design
Eco Innovation
Knowledge and Information Center
Education /Workshop /Presentation
projects realised in approach
Tower Project 2010-2011
The Tower is a residential building in Veszprem, Hungary. It is in a truly bad physical conditition, where highly impoverished families and people having fallen to the periphery of society live without enjoying the basics of social welfare. MOME EcoLab joined the
Partner:
Hungarian Maltese Charity Service 3H Architecture Studio
SITE:
development project of the Maltese Charity Service whose aim was to assist the development process of the building and of it’s community. Our task was to think through the entire strucure and operational system of the building in a sustainable manner.
Veszprém, Hungary
We rethought the functioning of the 17m2 appartments and the
DESIGNER:
community spaces. The conceptional proposals bear in mind
Dániel Barcza,Sára Berzicza, Bori Fehér, Rita Fodor, Zsolt Gunther, Katalin Holányi, Eszter Kollár, Bori Kovács, András Lőrinczi, Zsuzska Mészáros, Edit Nagy
the aspects of economic, ecological, and social sustainability. In accordance with these goals, the design team created proposals for the efficient use of the different floor levels of the building, (social housing appartments, community workshops, educational center, business development office, community spaces, plant
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cultivation terrasses and self sustaining ecosystems), and for the development of the building’s interior (energy efficient appartments, low budget furniture system, community kitchen).
workshop
communal zone
» start-up micro ventures » local employment and income generation » expandable box
» merging two opposite flats in each level » multifunctional media walls in each unit » communicating facade » same structure, different purpose
herb dryer
living unit no°1
» local employment » fair trade products
communal space, learning centre
» knowledge and skill share » flexible, multifunctional open space
canteen
» expandable box » local employment » creates community » event space
canteen workshop
learning centre
» a box is placed in the middle of the flat which separates the space into 5 » it gives the feeling living in a flat rather in a room » the design leaves the walls empty thus giving the opportunity on developing to inhabitant
living unit no°2
» minimizes design focusing on basic need » sleeping, bathing in a box » self-relization dominates the rest of the territory » stackable
communal zone living unit no2 living unit no1
'Humanitarian Design' Workshop on the Intensive Course Week of MOME 2010
The workshop focused on a settlement’s community living in poverty, stricken by a natural disaster as a cause of the global climate change. The aims of the workshop were to look for opportunities in order to improve their living conditions, the quality of living, to generate know-hows, and to adapt to the changing climate condition of the world. Instead of conventional methods, the goal was to analyze systemic patterns that are able
SITE:
Indonesia
DESIGNER:
Sára Berzicza, Dóra Chován, Róbert Császár, Bori Fehér, Judit Klein, Dóra Mózes, Veronika Szalai, Noémi Varga
to handle the social and cultural interrelatedness of humanitarian crises. Students participated from every departments of the university, together they worked on framing conceptual designs in multidisciplinary groups. During the work the focus fell on teamworking and on stimulating the students‘ ability of thinking within different principles simultaneously.
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» Floating house
» emergency helmet
'MOME Eco Campus' Workshop on the Intensive Course Week of MOME 2011
The MOME Eco-Campus project was an intensive workshop that focused on practical methods with an aim of finding solutions that would reform the operation of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design to a more sustainable structure both ecologically and socially. Students, again, came from different departments of the University in order to join this three days long course and had worked in multidisciplinary teams to design a more sustainable
SITE:
Budapest, Hungary
system for the MOME campus. Their proposals looked for creative and innovative answers supporting a 21st century sustainable urban lifestyle. As a result of the intensive course, many concepts were formulated and even a Facebook page was opened where the exchange of seemingly useless, however still usable objects was made possible. The page has been active ever since the workshop.
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'Smart EcoDesign: 3UP' Workshop on the Intensive Course Week of MOME 2011
Our ‘Smart EcoDesign’ course was an intensive practical workshop, and it was the first step within a long term project. Students led by tutors developed products that can foster families living in deep poverty to achieve the possibility of a more eco conscious, more economical, more practical and healthier lifestyle. Working in multidisciplinary teams, they gave innovative and creative answers to the new challanges and newly appeared needs of
SITE:
Györ-Moson-Sopron county, Fejér county, Magyarország
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people living at the bottom of the pyramid. We invited experts, such as architects and sociologists to give lectures in the topic of sustainability during the practical course.
'Tomorrow Afternoon' a MOMe-n 2012. SPRING
Our series of events, entitled 'Tomorrow Afternoon' was launched in the spring of 2012. By showing different strategies to our audiences, we inspired them to plan our future more consciously. Our aim was to stimulate thoughts and ideas about a sustainable future by organizing open movie screenings, presentations, talks and free discussions. On the spring term events we took a thorough look at the individual’s and at the communities’ opportunities by sparkling debates with the help of our invited presenters and selected movies.
World changing ideas stimulated by fair trade tea and coffee
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Members‘ projects: Kitchen in 17m2 2010. Fall
The kitchen system designed for The Tower provides such a flexible space, where the users are able to easily install their own handmade furniture as well as standard pre-manufactured kitchen equipments and cabinets. The installation of three metal rails on the wall at specific heights provides a framework that coordinates the efficient use of an extremely small space. The DIY furniture sets are designed in a way that they can all be easily made by
Partner
Hungarian Maltese Charity Service
SITE:
Veszprém, Hungary
DESIGNER:
Bori Kovács
www.borikovacs.allyou.net
hand at a regular wood and metal workshop – planned to have one in The Tower. A manual would be provided. These hand-made furniture could be taken by the user as own property after expiry of the 1 to 3 years housing period.
Members‘ projects: 'Doss' 2010. Diploma project
'Doss' is a makeshift bed that can be carried as a backpack. It is made of cheap and simple materials, it’s insulating capacity can be enhanced with materials lying at hand on the streets: newspaper, cardboard or folie. Personal belongings can be placed safely in its inner pockets. The project’s aim was to make the nights spent at public places easier with respect to the needs of homeless people.
SITE:
Budapest, Hungary
DESIGNER:
Katalin Holányi
Members‘ projects: 'Little Garden Storage' 2010.DIPLOMA PROJECT
The garden is a space where crop cultivation, active leisure and the reuse of substances and materials can be practiced simultaneously if we use it in a more conscious way. The goal of the storage that can be installed in individual small gardens is to enable and teach people the methods of a more environmentally conscious gardening. The storage is basically a consise package that consists of the most useful gardening equipments only. It invites people to
SITE:
Budapest, Hungary
DESIGNER:
SĂĄra Berzicza
try using the basic tools, while it is also designed to enable the collection of rain water as well as compostable materials. Adjusted to the seasonality of the garden, the storage can be left outdoors from spring to autumn, while during the winter it can be packed together and stored outside in a protected form.
www.saricza.hu
Members‘ projects: 'our light'LAMP 2009. Fall
'Our light' is a portable lamp that was designed to be used at those areas of the World where there is no electricity. The design pays attention to those traditonal cultural customs, motifs, and conditions which characterize a rural household. The lamp makes use of solar power, its shape can be adjusted depending on whether the user needs scattered light or concentrated light; to hang the lamp, place it on an uneven surface or hold it in hand. Considering
DESIGNER:
Bori KovĂĄcs
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its use, it is much similar to those oil and petroleum lamps, which are widespread in poor, rural areas.
Research Papers 2010 - 2012
'Sustainability and Enviroment Protection Plan of MOME'
'Sustainable Development at Art Univerities'
Bori Kovács, thesis,Budapest, 2012
Bori Fehér, thesis, MOME, Budapest, 2011
Dániel Barcza,Budapest, 2010, 2011
'Climate Catastrophes, Architectural Responses'
'Climate Protection and Sustainability Program at MOME'
Dániel Barcza, Bori Fehér, learning material, Chamber of Hungarian Architects Further Education Public Service Company, Budapest, 2012
Dániel Barcza, preparatory study, Budapest, 2009
'Socially Responsible Design' www.momeecolab.blogspot.com
'FORM FOLLOWS IMPACT'
Dániel Barcza, Culture and Community - Sustainability, 2nd year 2011/III.
'human centered design' Bori Kovács, theoretical final paper,Budapest, 2011
'Design for Emergency' Dániel Barcza, CUMULUS, Paris, 2011
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editors: Dániel Barcza, Bori Fehér project executive: Bori Fehér First Readers: Dániel Barcza, Bori Fehér Translation: Bori Feher, Bori Kovacs Graphic design: Sára Berzicza MOME EcoLab Logo: Katalin Holányi Sponsored by: National Chief Architect's Office Printed at: Folprint Zöldnyomda Kft. Number of Copies: 100 Y ear of Publication: 2012
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