About the foundation
The Hungarian Design Cultural Foundation is a non-profit organisation organising common professional programs for designers and designer students. That helps them to keep in touch and to improve their skills. Moreover, the social union and international potentiality of the profession could develop.The founding members of the Summer Design Workshop regard the International Design Workshop of Zsennye as its intellectual predecessor and its predecessor of title.
Our Goals
- arousing people’s interest in design
- broadening the range of professional experiences through the contact made between designers and their organizations
- strengthening the interdisciplinary role of design by joining the different fields
- helping the young designers on their carrier to participate in professional programmes
- encourage the ’designer society’ to have a responsible critical kind of approach and to help the establishment of a new relationship between designers and the society on the basis of maintaining social responsivness
- ensuring many possibilities for publication through the media
Data
Mailing address:Hungarian Design Cultural Foundation, Lelkes Péter
H-2051 Biatorbágy, Szabadság út 85.
Bank account from EU (IBAN)
HU044 07100-44000006
Swift code: GIBA HU HB
Bank account from Hungary:
11644006-04407100-44000006
Curators of the foundation
Péter Lelkes
Head of the foundation curatorysee below
József Zalavári
Designer, associate professorsee below
Dr. h.c. József Cserny
Kossuth prize awarded designer
Tibor Szentpéteri
Designer, associate professor
György Czapp
Ferenczy Noémi prize awarded designer
József Scherer
Ferenczy Noémi-awarded designer, professorJózsef Gollób
associate professorViktor Pósa
architect, interior designer
Bálint Pallag
industrial designerOrganizers
József Zalavári
Workshop headDesigner. One of the internationally known Hungarian designers. Head of the Trakter International Design Workshop.
Associate professor of Budapest University of Technology and Economics; was awarded the Hungarian Design Award several times.
Fields of research and publication:
- Eco design
- Design sociology
- Graphic design
- Household equipments
- Bus, vehicles
- Street furniture
DLA habil Péter Lelkes
Head of the foundation curatoryDesigner. Awarded Munkácsy Prize and Dózsa-Farkas András Prize; founding member of the International Design Workshop of Zsennye.
Professor of Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE); was awarded several times the Hungarian Design Award.
Fields of research:
- design history
- design sociology
- objective environment of architecture
- global and local design
- sound techniques – conference systems
- interactive applications, electronic devices
- graphic design
Gabriella Esze
Industrial design studentBudapest University of Technology and Economics
Bálint Ferenczi
Front-end designer
Vanda Kovács
Industrial design studentBudapest University of Technology and Economics
Dániel Lőrincz
Industrial design studentBudapest University of Technology and Economics
L Péter Molnár
Industrial designer