Attila Bujdosó
Born in 1981, Budapest. Exported as a researcher. Currently Head of Research at Future School, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest.
Manifesto ↓
I’m happy to design anything. Be it a house, a book, software, a city, a work of art, a community, a process or a system – as long as it has an impact on the world. Psychologist Abraham Maslow wrote in 1966 that if the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything as if it were a nail. A surgeon always recommends surgery. An architect wants to design and build: that’s what he knows and likes to do. But architecture or building is not the answer to every problem. If we already know the form of the solution to a problem – for example, that it will be a house –, then it’s design as usual from then on.
As architecture students, in most universities you will receive powerful education about the duality of architecture, namely that good designs combine technical and artistic, engineering-technological and human (ux, ergonomic, aesthetic) aspects. Coupled with the need to integrate these hard and soft aspects into your work in an appropriate, proportionate and creative way, this knowledge empowers you with a strong foundation. And you can apply this approach not only in architecture, but also in many other fields, to solve much bigger problems. This is what I encourage all students to do: use your university years to experiment, to be active in different social, cultural, professional and academic circles, to try out, learn and understand different fields. Disciplines are at once necessary and outdated.
Career path ↓
Attila Bujdosó started his studies in 1999 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He moved around comfortably across multiple departments of the Faculty of Architecture, but the field of extracurricular cooperations and organising student life was his home turf. In order to promote community life, he and his peers founded a folk dance group, a website and created a file-sharing system. Spending night after night in the student council office, which had a stable internet connection, Attila saw the community-building potential of the new technology. Based on knowledge sharing and online interaction, Wikipedia, Creative Commons or iWiW, the Hungarian social media site, had a great impact on the young designer. It was during his studies abroad that he met Ádám Somlai-Fischer, who attached similar importance to digital culture. In 2006, Attila worked with him as part of the project team for the Hungarian exhibition at the 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture, and it was owing to him that he realised that architects can do more than just shape physical space, as “we exist in built, natural, digital, community, cultural, economic and political space all at once”. As the winner of the 2008 Junior Prima Prize, Attila presented a tableau summarising his work under the heading “I'll design anything for you”, thereby stating that it is not the medium of the project that is important to him, but its impact on the widest possible scale. As an architect, he worked on the Bálna (Whale) building in Budapest, a project that attracted the attention of both the professional and lay public, where he experienced the impact of the divergent interests of designers, investors and politicians on the outcome of a project. Following this, he joined the transdisciplinary creative community of Kitchen Budapest, where – among other things – he studied internationally recognised community projects in the frame of The Format Project. He recognised that certain formats, such as Pecha Kucha Night, Long Night of Museums or Critical Mass, were going viral around the world and popping up in Budapest as well. In Attila’s words, they are like cultural softwares that run on people instead of computers. The only difference is that these formats describe the structure of a social event, not a dataset. The results of this research were eventually published in a crowdfunded book, Social Design Cookbook, in which the Social Design Canvas tool was used to map out a successful model for collaboration.
Attila Bujdosó
Born in 1981, Budapest. Exported as a researcher. Currently Head of Research at Future School, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest.
Manifesto ↓
I’m happy to design anything. Be it a house, a book, software, a city, a work of art, a community, a process or a system – as long as it has an impact on the world. Psychologist Abraham Maslow wrote in 1966 that if the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything as if it were a nail. A surgeon always recommends surgery. An architect wants to design and build: that’s what he knows and likes to do. But architecture or building is not the answer to every problem. If we already know the form of the solution to a problem – for example, that it will be a house –, then it’s design as usual from then on.
As architecture students, in most universities you will receive powerful education about the duality of architecture, namely that good designs combine technical and artistic, engineering-technological and human (ux, ergonomic, aesthetic) aspects. Coupled with the need to integrate these hard and soft aspects into your work in an appropriate, proportionate and creative way, this knowledge empowers you with a strong foundation. And you can apply this approach not only in architecture, but also in many other fields, to solve much bigger problems. This is what I encourage all students to do: use your university years to experiment, to be active in different social, cultural, professional and academic circles, to try out, learn and understand different fields. Disciplines are at once necessary and outdated.
Career path ↓
Attila Bujdosó started his studies in 1999 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He moved around comfortably across multiple departments of the Faculty of Architecture, but the field of extracurricular cooperations and organising student life was his home turf. In order to promote community life, he and his peers founded a folk dance group, a website and created a file-sharing system. Spending night after night in the student council office, which had a stable internet connection, Attila saw the community-building potential of the new technology. Based on knowledge sharing and online interaction, Wikipedia, Creative Commons or iWiW, the Hungarian social media site, had a great impact on the young designer. It was during his studies abroad that he met Ádám Somlai-Fischer, who attached similar importance to digital culture. In 2006, Attila worked with him as part of the project team for the Hungarian exhibition at the 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture, and it was owing to him that he realised that architects can do more than just shape physical space, as “we exist in built, natural, digital, community, cultural, economic and political space all at once”. As the winner of the 2008 Junior Prima Prize, Attila presented a tableau summarising his work under the heading “I'll design anything for you”, thereby stating that it is not the medium of the project that is important to him, but its impact on the widest possible scale. As an architect, he worked on the Bálna (Whale) building in Budapest, a project that attracted the attention of both the professional and lay public, where he experienced the impact of the divergent interests of designers, investors and politicians on the outcome of a project. Following this, he joined the transdisciplinary creative community of Kitchen Budapest, where – among other things – he studied internationally recognised community projects in the frame of The Format Project. He recognised that certain formats, such as Pecha Kucha Night, Long Night of Museums or Critical Mass, were going viral around the world and popping up in Budapest as well. In Attila’s words, they are like cultural softwares that run on people instead of computers. The only difference is that these formats describe the structure of a social event, not a dataset. The results of this research were eventually published in a crowdfunded book, Social Design Cookbook, in which the Social Design Canvas tool was used to map out a successful model for collaboration.
Attila Bujdosó
Born in 1981, Budapest. Exported as a researcher. Currently Head of Research at Future School, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest.
Manifesto ↓
I’m happy to design anything. Be it a house, a book, software, a city, a work of art, a community, a process or a system – as long as it has an impact on the world. Psychologist Abraham Maslow wrote in 1966 that if the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything as if it were a nail. A surgeon always recommends surgery. An architect wants to design and build: that’s what he knows and likes to do. But architecture or building is not the answer to every problem. If we already know the form of the solution to a problem – for example, that it will be a house –, then it’s design as usual from then on.
As architecture students, in most universities you will receive powerful education about the duality of architecture, namely that good designs combine technical and artistic, engineering-technological and human (ux, ergonomic, aesthetic) aspects. Coupled with the need to integrate these hard and soft aspects into your work in an appropriate, proportionate and creative way, this knowledge empowers you with a strong foundation. And you can apply this approach not only in architecture, but also in many other fields, to solve much bigger problems. This is what I encourage all students to do: use your university years to experiment, to be active in different social, cultural, professional and academic circles, to try out, learn and understand different fields. Disciplines are at once necessary and outdated.
Career path ↓
Attila Bujdosó started his studies in 1999 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He moved around comfortably across multiple departments of the Faculty of Architecture, but the field of extracurricular cooperations and organising student life was his home turf. In order to promote community life, he and his peers founded a folk dance group, a website and created a file-sharing system. Spending night after night in the student council office, which had a stable internet connection, Attila saw the community-building potential of the new technology. Based on knowledge sharing and online interaction, Wikipedia, Creative Commons or iWiW, the Hungarian social media site, had a great impact on the young designer. It was during his studies abroad that he met Ádám Somlai-Fischer, who attached similar importance to digital culture. In 2006, Attila worked with him as part of the project team for the Hungarian exhibition at the 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture, and it was owing to him that he realised that architects can do more than just shape physical space, as “we exist in built, natural, digital, community, cultural, economic and political space all at once”. As the winner of the 2008 Junior Prima Prize, Attila presented a tableau summarising his work under the heading “I'll design anything for you”, thereby stating that it is not the medium of the project that is important to him, but its impact on the widest possible scale. As an architect, he worked on the Bálna (Whale) building in Budapest, a project that attracted the attention of both the professional and lay public, where he experienced the impact of the divergent interests of designers, investors and politicians on the outcome of a project. Following this, he joined the transdisciplinary creative community of Kitchen Budapest, where – among other things – he studied internationally recognised community projects in the frame of The Format Project. He recognised that certain formats, such as Pecha Kucha Night, Long Night of Museums or Critical Mass, were going viral around the world and popping up in Budapest as well. In Attila’s words, they are like cultural softwares that run on people instead of computers. The only difference is that these formats describe the structure of a social event, not a dataset. The results of this research were eventually published in a crowdfunded book, Social Design Cookbook, in which the Social Design Canvas tool was used to map out a successful model for collaboration.
Attila Bujdosó
Born in 1981, Budapest. Exported as a researcher. Currently Head of Research at Future School, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest.
Manifesto ↓
I’m happy to design anything. Be it a house, a book, software, a city, a work of art, a community, a process or a system – as long as it has an impact on the world. Psychologist Abraham Maslow wrote in 1966 that if the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything as if it were a nail. A surgeon always recommends surgery. An architect wants to design and build: that’s what he knows and likes to do. But architecture or building is not the answer to every problem. If we already know the form of the solution to a problem – for example, that it will be a house –, then it’s design as usual from then on.
As architecture students, in most universities you will receive powerful education about the duality of architecture, namely that good designs combine technical and artistic, engineering-technological and human (ux, ergonomic, aesthetic) aspects. Coupled with the need to integrate these hard and soft aspects into your work in an appropriate, proportionate and creative way, this knowledge empowers you with a strong foundation. And you can apply this approach not only in architecture, but also in many other fields, to solve much bigger problems. This is what I encourage all students to do: use your university years to experiment, to be active in different social, cultural, professional and academic circles, to try out, learn and understand different fields. Disciplines are at once necessary and outdated.
Career path ↓
Attila Bujdosó started his studies in 1999 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He moved around comfortably across multiple departments of the Faculty of Architecture, but the field of extracurricular cooperations and organising student life was his home turf. In order to promote community life, he and his peers founded a folk dance group, a website and created a file-sharing system. Spending night after night in the student council office, which had a stable internet connection, Attila saw the community-building potential of the new technology. Based on knowledge sharing and online interaction, Wikipedia, Creative Commons or iWiW, the Hungarian social media site, had a great impact on the young designer. It was during his studies abroad that he met Ádám Somlai-Fischer, who attached similar importance to digital culture. In 2006, Attila worked with him as part of the project team for the Hungarian exhibition at the 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture, and it was owing to him that he realised that architects can do more than just shape physical space, as “we exist in built, natural, digital, community, cultural, economic and political space all at once”. As the winner of the 2008 Junior Prima Prize, Attila presented a tableau summarising his work under the heading “I'll design anything for you”, thereby stating that it is not the medium of the project that is important to him, but its impact on the widest possible scale. As an architect, he worked on the Bálna (Whale) building in Budapest, a project that attracted the attention of both the professional and lay public, where he experienced the impact of the divergent interests of designers, investors and politicians on the outcome of a project. Following this, he joined the transdisciplinary creative community of Kitchen Budapest, where – among other things – he studied internationally recognised community projects in the frame of The Format Project. He recognised that certain formats, such as Pecha Kucha Night, Long Night of Museums or Critical Mass, were going viral around the world and popping up in Budapest as well. In Attila’s words, they are like cultural softwares that run on people instead of computers. The only difference is that these formats describe the structure of a social event, not a dataset. The results of this research were eventually published in a crowdfunded book, Social Design Cookbook, in which the Social Design Canvas tool was used to map out a successful model for collaboration.
Attila Bujdosó
Born in 1981, Budapest. Exported as a researcher. Currently Head of Research at Future School, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest.
Manifesto ↓
I’m happy to design anything. Be it a house, a book, software, a city, a work of art, a community, a process or a system – as long as it has an impact on the world. Psychologist Abraham Maslow wrote in 1966 that if the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything as if it were a nail. A surgeon always recommends surgery. An architect wants to design and build: that’s what he knows and likes to do. But architecture or building is not the answer to every problem. If we already know the form of the solution to a problem – for example, that it will be a house –, then it’s design as usual from then on.
As architecture students, in most universities you will receive powerful education about the duality of architecture, namely that good designs combine technical and artistic, engineering-technological and human (ux, ergonomic, aesthetic) aspects. Coupled with the need to integrate these hard and soft aspects into your work in an appropriate, proportionate and creative way, this knowledge empowers you with a strong foundation. And you can apply this approach not only in architecture, but also in many other fields, to solve much bigger problems. This is what I encourage all students to do: use your university years to experiment, to be active in different social, cultural, professional and academic circles, to try out, learn and understand different fields. Disciplines are at once necessary and outdated.
Career path ↓
Attila Bujdosó started his studies in 1999 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He moved around comfortably across multiple departments of the Faculty of Architecture, but the field of extracurricular cooperations and organising student life was his home turf. In order to promote community life, he and his peers founded a folk dance group, a website and created a file-sharing system. Spending night after night in the student council office, which had a stable internet connection, Attila saw the community-building potential of the new technology. Based on knowledge sharing and online interaction, Wikipedia, Creative Commons or iWiW, the Hungarian social media site, had a great impact on the young designer. It was during his studies abroad that he met Ádám Somlai-Fischer, who attached similar importance to digital culture. In 2006, Attila worked with him as part of the project team for the Hungarian exhibition at the 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture, and it was owing to him that he realised that architects can do more than just shape physical space, as “we exist in built, natural, digital, community, cultural, economic and political space all at once”. As the winner of the 2008 Junior Prima Prize, Attila presented a tableau summarising his work under the heading “I'll design anything for you”, thereby stating that it is not the medium of the project that is important to him, but its impact on the widest possible scale. As an architect, he worked on the Bálna (Whale) building in Budapest, a project that attracted the attention of both the professional and lay public, where he experienced the impact of the divergent interests of designers, investors and politicians on the outcome of a project. Following this, he joined the transdisciplinary creative community of Kitchen Budapest, where – among other things – he studied internationally recognised community projects in the frame of The Format Project. He recognised that certain formats, such as Pecha Kucha Night, Long Night of Museums or Critical Mass, were going viral around the world and popping up in Budapest as well. In Attila’s words, they are like cultural softwares that run on people instead of computers. The only difference is that these formats describe the structure of a social event, not a dataset. The results of this research were eventually published in a crowdfunded book, Social Design Cookbook, in which the Social Design Canvas tool was used to map out a successful model for collaboration.