Our minds craft the screenplay of our dreams by drawing on experiences gathered during the day. The PORTAL project offers an opportunity for immersion in a dreamlike, alternative reality while awake. In the spring of 2024, Adam Barcsai won the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design's Best Designer Maker Award with his immersive piece.
“I first tried felting when I was six years old; I still remember the orange checkered side bag and the little figures I made”, Csenge recalls her early experiences.
"You've stolen our culture!"; "Give back our cultural space!"; "This was a cultural hub for the Roma, I grew up here!" These are just some of the impassioned messages scrawled on the locked gates of 6 Tavaszmező Street. The building has been standing empty since the 2016 eviction of its former resident the Roma Parlament. In her project, Rebeka Winkler re-imagined this symbol of the appropriation of Roma culture.
Given the ongoing scepticism surrounding the disorder, Dorottya set out to use conceptual designs to convey the various emotional processes, eating difficulties, and characteristic behaviours of those with anorexia.
We carry offensive words from childhood into our adult lives, where they grow, fester, and distort our self-image like malignant tumours. They lurk within us all, but not everyone’s are fed by judgemental, identity-paralysing stereotypes. Anita Horváth undertakes the formidable task of challenging the external gaze that seeks to define her.