2023 Budapest Exhibition
Agency, empowerment, impact: these characteristics distinguish the work featured in the Design for the Common Good International Exhibition. In its first international venue outside of the United States, the Design for the Common Good Network, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Budapest Metropolitan University Faculty of Art and Creative Industries are pleased to present this curated collection of thirty-two projects from six continents and twenty-three countries. Established by the Design for the Common Good Network in Denver, Colorado (2022) as the parent exhibition, today the exhibition travels with added peer-reviewed or curator-invited projects that build the collection.
Please see the exhibition catalog presented below for project narratives and related texts translated into Hungarian.
HOST: Budapest Metropolitan University Faculty of Art and Creative Industries
DATE: October 4–19, 2023
LOCATION: Artus Contemporary Art Studio, Budapest, Hungary
Video Credit: David Kovacs & Budapest Metropolitan University Faculty of Art and Creative Industries
curated works
Collaborations in Design + Architecture Education
Curator Invited Regional Project Selection: Emerging Voices in Education
George Hawkins Memorial Treatment Center Mural
Curator Invited Regional Project Selection
Thank You
Organizers: Design for the Common Good Network, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and the Budapest Metropolitan University Faculty of Art and Creative Industries
Traveling Exhibition Sponsors: Budapest Metropolitan University Faculty of Art and Creative Industries; Center for Public Interest Design, Portland State University; Community Development Partners; Design for the Common Good Network; Metropolitan State University of Denver; National Endowment for the Arts
Exhibition Logo Design: Emily Douglas and Allie Fabrizio
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Budapest Exhibition Catalog
The traveling expression of the Design for the Common Good International Exhibition presented in Budapest, Hungary significantly includes three Hungarian projects new to the collection. This work exemplifies the ways communities, organizations, and design teams are creating positive change from the ground up. Often localized and scale-appropriate, these efforts are transformative in the places where they matter most.
First edition, Denver 2022, exhibition catalog designed by MSU Denver Communication Design students; Second edition, Budapest 2023, exhibition catalog editing and revision by Veronika Kovács; cover design by Erzsébet Bachmann.
Special thanks to Zsuzsanna Pörczi and Budapest Metropolitan University for making this catalog and its Hungarian translation possible.
Executive Committee
Curator
Lisa M. Abendroth
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Lisa M. Abendroth is the curator and organizer of the Design for the Common Good International Exhibition (Denver 2022, Budapest 2023). Her research focuses on public interest design and the social, economic, and environmental impacts created with, and within, the contexts of underserved people, places, and problems. Lisa is a Professor in Communication Design at Metropolitan State University of Denver where her pedagogy is committed to community-led design practices that embolden access and equity. She is a SEED Network co-founder, a Design for the Common Good Network executive committee member, and a co-editor/co-author of two books in Routledge’s Public Interest Design Guidebook series. She holds degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University and Rhode Island School of Design and is an AIGA Fellow. Lisa lectures, exhibits, and publishes her work nationally and internationally.
Committee Representatives
While each network has a unique focus, we acknowledge our mutuality in supporting the growth of design for the common good. In this we seek to scale our effectiveness through our existing network affiliations, the inclusion of new networks, and the promotion of relationships that share new knowledge and critical PID approaches to working, teaching, and learning.
Nina Pawlicki
DesignBuildXchange
Jane Anderson
Live Projects Network
Jeff Hou
Pacific Rim Community
LOCATION INFO
Budapest Metropolitan University
Budapest Metropolitan University (METU) is the largest private university in Hungary, offering programs in two faculties in the areas of communication, business, tourism, visual arts, and creative industries. Our prospective students can choose from a constantly growing selection of Hungarian and English language bachelor’s and master’s programs, postgraduate specialist training, adult education, and higher-level vocational training courses. We devote particular attention to practical training adjusted to current labour market needs, the personalized support of our students’ individual learning paths, and the development of social competencies. We treat our students as clients and work with them as partners in education.
International University
About 1,000 of our almost 7,000 students are international students coming from over 100 different countries. Our institution is an important and dynamically developing player in Hungarian higher education and even in the Central Eastern European region. We have active partnerships with over 200 international institutions across five continents.
University of Creativeness
METU focuses on learning through creativity and applies an operational approach open to the outside world, embedding the university in the economic, social, innovation, and cultural ecosystem. This international, cooperative environment supports our students in discovering their strengths and achieving their best in all areas of life. We help students gain actual practical knowledge built on real-life challenges, which will give them a true competitive advantage at the start of their careers. After all, the university is all about laying the foundations of students’ future.
Faculty of Art and Creative Industries
Our institution has the widest arts education portfolio in Hungary, and a uniquely diverse range of programs. Besides teaching creative thinking and practical and technical skills, the arts programs of METU focus on providing an environment that supports creativity, where our creative students can learn from outstanding professionals recognized in their fields. This gives our university’s artists great motivation, allowing them not only to gain relevant, applicable knowledge and important skills but to feel that they have a calling in their chosen field. Students studying media and motion picture or applied arts can learn about each other’s fields through shared projects. Our top students have the opportunity to conduct visual experiments in our scientific art studio, which are also useful in the creative industries, and to prove themselves at national and international competitions and festivals.
