MOME line – design works

The first Hungarian Wood Festival starts on August 24, with four teams composed of young and creative students designing and making complex installations or sculptures that can be folded or disassembled, made of a kilometer of wood planks. Although the Danish event, which was the inspiration for the organizers, and for which first year students of MOME were invited, has been canceled due to lack of funds, the Hungarian Wood Festival will be still held at the arts colony in Csongrád.

The week-long creative student workshop’s theme is using wood in a versatile and creative way, and the infinite form variations of installations and sculptures created under specific conditions. In addition, another goal of the Wood Festival is to be an integral part in the cooperation and communication of participating institutions (BME, MOME, NYME-AMI), as in projects such as this the collaboration of various fields is indispensable.

During the week-long creative workshop 20 students, led by 4 team leaders will participate from various fields of the architecture and product design area. Similar to the rules of the Danish Woodfestival held last year, each team will design and create its own sculpture or installation using 1 kilometer of 4×4 cm pinewood planks. The planks will be provided by JAF Holz Ungarn Ltd., Central Europe’s market-leader wood company, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary of establishment in Hungary with the Wood Festival. The stay of participants in Csongrád is supported by NKA and the Csongrád Chamber of Architects.

Apart from the design approach represented by the architect team leaders, András Huszár, Áron Losonczi and Péter Pozsár, art is also a major inspiration for the participants, therefore one team will be led by fresh graduate of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, artist Gábor Miklós Szőke. To make it a bit more difficult, a new challenge was added to the conditions by the organizers: the resulting works must be able to be folded and/or disassembled by the juncions. Besides being a test for the design, it is also important that the installations be transportable to be exhibited at the Budapest event of the Design Week 2010.

The curator of the Wood Festival is Péter Pozsár, member of Újirány Group and a MOME DLA student. Please read an interview with Péter at www.ilovewood.hu.

The website of Gabor Miklos Szoke: www.tikito.com

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