Index – Culture – What product will we buy in 30 years?
The programs of this year’s Budapest Design Week (BDW) focus on virtual and real, personal and social meeting spaces. The festival presents architecture and design as intertwining and complementary fields that together can contribute to a more sustainable, inclusive and livable built environment.
This year, the Hungarian Design Award and the Design Management Award will also be presented on the opening night of the festival, on October 6. The exhibition featuring selected works will be open to the public in the Museum of Ethnography in parallel with the BDW’s central exhibition. As in previous years, the works exhibited in 2022 will be presented by outstanding, innovative results of domestic design and by organizations that apply design management excellently.
Architectural walks
Central exhibition of BDW Meeting spaces – architecture and design will be shown between October 7th and 16th at the central location of the festival, in the new Museum of Ethnography. By placing architecture and design studios next to each other, the exhibition examines the architectural and design aspects of our personal meeting habits and the transformation of our social spaces. The exhibition is guided several times by DLA architect Ferenc Sebestény, the curator of this year’s festival and exhibition.
This time, Nyitott Stúdiók also opens its doors to visitors as part of the program: five architecture offices and five design studios. The Minusplus architecture and design studio, for example, has the buildings and office spaces it designed within walking distance at the three Budapest locations. This year, Bánáti+Hartvig, BORD Építéz Stúdió, Építéz Stúdió and Hetedik Műterem are participating in the program as architectural offices. In addition, visitors can get to know Hannabi, Komok, ONYX Műhely, Plydesign and Neongrey design studios.
On the first Saturday of the festival, the BDW Family Day awaits families and children with children’s workshops and guided tours. During the building tours organized as part of the design week, three architectural firms introduce visitors to the process and workshop secrets of building design. In the Museum of Ethnography, Napur Architect, in the Prezi office building, Minusplus Stúdió will guide you, and in the Creative Sound Room of the House of Hungarian Music, members of the Medence group, András Gross and Tóbiás Terebessy, will give a special tour.
Speculative design
This year, the partner institutions will join the festival with a wide range of programs. Speculative design exhibition of the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts (MOME), Objects of the future examines what development and services we will be buying 30 years from now; organized by the Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency (HFDA), 360 Design Budapest presents domestic and regional design pieces.
THE Unlimited Design this year, the exhibition also focuses on the presentation of artists from the region. This year, the independent design and general art event series will present the works of more than 160 artists from 16 countries in addition to artists from the V4 countries, including a representative regional and Finnish selection at the Kiscelli Museum between October 2 and November 6.
The festival staff has reassembled the Budapest Design Map, which, in addition to the design shops, includes the city’s most exciting design events and venues. The printed version of the map is available from September 15 in many design shops in the city. As part of this year’s BDW, in addition to the capital, visitors can also expect exhibitions, building tours, family and children’s programs in Sopron, Szombathely and Pécs.