EDUCATION

2016–2022  Doctor of Liberal Arts (DLA), Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME), Doctoral School. Dissertation: co-Ability | Aligned Arguments for the Dissolution of a Human ‘Centre’

1998–2003  Masters in Industrial Design, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME), Department of Design.

 

POSITIONS HELD

• 2023– Senior Research Fellow, MOME
• 2023 Research Fellow, MOME
• 2022– Lead, MOME Robotics Studio,   EN link!
• 2022–2023 Program Lead, ABRAx Erasmus+ Erasmus Mundus Design Measures, MOME
• 2020–2022 Head, Object Design BA Program, MOME
• 2020–2021 Head, Jewellery and Metal Design MA Program, MOME
• 2017–2020 Assistant Lecturer, MOME
• 2016 Invited Lecturer, MOME
• 2016–2019 Educator & Researcher, MOME Digital Craft Lab
• 2016–2018 Educator & Researcher, MOME Transfer Lab
• 2013–2017 Industrial Designer & 3D Printing Specialist, Freedee Printing Solutions
• 2014 Exhibition Space Project Designer, Acetánia – Vinegar Museum
• 2011–2012 Art Communication, Sterling Contemporary Jewelry Gallery
• 2010–2011 Designer, Defo Lab Budapest
• 2008–2010 Art Director, Daniele Bogiatto Company (Italy)
• 2006–2007 Naval Design & CAD Specialist, IF Design (Italy)
• 2005–2007 Illustrator, Riforma Weekly Newspaper (Italy)

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

• 2025, Don Norman Design Award in the Education category for the MOME course Non-Bionormative Prosthesis Design
• 2022 Gillo Dorfles Award, Trieste Contemporanea BASICS International Design Contest
• 2021 Grant, National Cultural Fund of Hungary – Glass Collection Development
• 2020 EDF and Oracle Award for a Scholarship to a Researcher with Disability
• 2019–2020 New National Excellence Program Scholarship (ÚNKP)
• 2019–2020 Die Aktion Österreich-Ungarn Knowledge Sharing Program (co-Ability Research)
• 2019 Emerging Scholar Award, Common Ground Research Network, International Conference on Technology, Knowledge & Society
• 2018–2019 New National Excellence Program Scholarship (ÚNKP)
• 2017–2018 Grant, NKA at MOME, Managing Organizer (MOME + University of Applied Arts Vienna)
• 2018 Grant, NKA for 3D printing
• 2018–2019 Grant, NKA for MOME–KU Leuven international exchange (Anthropology of Disability)
• 2016–2020 Doctoral Government Fellowship
• 2002 Erasmus Scholarship, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

 

PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• 2025 Dezso, Renata; Thamó, Emese; Szabados, Luca. Exploring non-bionormative prosthesis design: Challenging norms and fostering situative learning ecology. Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 171–193. doi:10.1386/adch_00120_1.
• 2025 Dezso, Renata; Tarr, Kalman. Reflective Robotics: Human-Robot Interaction as a Creative and Performative Practice. Politics of the Machines (POM) 2025, Perth, Australia.
• 2024 Dezso, Renata. Co-Ability and Embodied Data: Blurring the Lines Between Human and Nonhuman Entities in an Interconnected World. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Digital Impacts, Vol. 6. doi:10.3389/fhumd.2024.1406943.
• 2024 Speaker, Design Research Symposium, University of Edinburgh, School of Design.
• 2024 Speaker (HU), Museum of Applied Arts Scientific Forum, Budapest — 3D Digitalization in Contemporary Applied Art Object Creation and Higher Education in Applied Arts.
• 2023 Dezso, Renata. Prototypes as a Structured Information Source in Theory Nexus. In S. Ferraris, V. Rognoli & N. Nimkulrat (eds.), From Abstractness to Concreteness – Experiential Knowledge and the Role of Prototypes in Design Research, DRS EKSIG Conference 2023, Politecnico di Milano, pp. 470–489.
• 2023 Speaker, Data-Centric Design Symposium, TU Delft.
• 2023 Speaker, STS Italia Conference, University of Bologna.
• 2023 Speaker, NERD Take Five – New Experimental Research in Design, Berlin Open Lab.
• 2020 Dezso, Renata. Co-designing for Inclusion in International/Interdisciplinary Teams. International Journal of Education Through Art, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 177–196.
• 2019 Dezso, Renata. Co-Ability Practices. In Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Design Research Conference (Nordes 2019), Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, 3–6 June. Design Research Society. Link
• 2019 Dezso, Renata. A gondoskodó tervezés és gyakorlati reflexiók (HU). In Szabálytalan Kontúrok, ELTE Bárczi Gusztáv Gyógypedagógiai Kar, pp. 154–166. ISBN 9789637155888.
• 2019 Dezso, Renata. Co-design – Oktatási programsorozat a gondoskodó tervezés jegyében (HU). In Együtt Oktatunk és Kutatunk! Inkluzív Megközelítés a Felsőoktatásban, ELTE Bárczi Gusztáv Gyógypedagógiai Kar, pp. 195–205.
• 2019 Speaker, Design Culture & Somaesthetics Conference, Budapest.
• 2019 Speaker, 15th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge & Society, Barcelona.
• 2019 Speaker, 13th International Conference on Design Principles & Practices, St. Petersburg.
• 2018 Invited Moderator, 6th Disability Studies Conference, ELTE, Budapest.
• 2018 Speaker, D’Art: Teaching Artistic Research Conference, Vienna.
• 2018 Speaker, Somaesthetics: Between the Human Body and Beyond, International Conference, Szeged.
• 2017 Speaker, 5th Disability Studies Conference, ELTE, Budapest (Festival of Hungarian Science).

 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION AND SERVICE

• 2025 Organizer, EKSIG 2025: Experiential Knowledge, Data in Health, DRS SIG on Experiential Knowledge, hosted by MOME, Budapest.
• 2022–2023 Program Lead, Design Measures proposal for ABRAx Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters in Complex and Adaptive Systems across Robotics, Biology, Art, and Design. ABRAx Consortium: University of Trento, Aalborg University, Aalto University, Institute of Advanced Design Studies, and MOME. https://abrax.cibio.unitn.it/people/
• 2017–2018 Managing Organizer, International Exchange Program MOME–University of Applied Arts Vienna, supported by NKA.

 

TEACHING AND MENTORING

• 2025 Co-lecturer, Human Biology as a Design Framework – Circadian Rhythm and Lighting (with Dr Krisztina Ella, Balazs Puspok and Kalman Tarr)
• 2025 Thesis supervision for BA students: Boglarka Csia, Emese Thamo, Marton Hunyadi, Balint Ligeti.
• 2024-2025 Co-lecturer, Nonbionormative prosthetic design with Luca Szabados
• 2024 Co-lecturer, Reflective Robotics and Connectivity with Elizabeth Jochum and Kalman Tarr
• 2022 Guest Lecture,  Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
• 2020 Thesis supervision MA student, James Carcass, project FutureFace2020
• 2020 Co-lecturer, Design Fiction Workshop, MOME Design Institute & Institute of Theoretical Studies.
• 2019 Guest Lecture, dieAngewandte University, Critical Theory through Design, Art+Science, and Disability Studies.
• 2019 Co-lecturer and course coordinator for interdisciplinary MOME–dieAngewandte cooperation.
• 2019 Lecturer – Data Physicalisation, MOME Digital Lab.
• 2018 Lecturer – Microworld Structures, MOME.
• 2018 Thesis supervision MA student, Annabori Lanyi, project PlayBALL.
• 2017 Co-lecturer, Design For Care, MOME.
• 2016–2022 Taught and coordinated courses in 3D modelling, 2D modelling, and laser cutting at MOME.

 

MOBILITY, WORKSHOPS, SUMMER SCHOOLS, RESIDENCIES

• 2023 Participant, ABRAx Erasmus+ Consortium Meeting on Complex and Adaptive Systems across Robotics, Biology, Art, and Design, University of Trento, School of Innovation.
• 2023 Attendee, ABRA Symposium – What Transdisciplinary Knowledge Looks Like, Aalto University, Finland.
• 2022 Participant, ABRA Workshop Series on Artificial Biology, Robotics, and Art (ABRA), organized by Aalborg University (Denmark), Aalto University (Finland), University of Trento (Italy), and the Institute of Advanced Design Studies (ADES, Hungary).
• 2022 Invited Artist, Umwelt Art & Science International Summer Academy, Mount Saint George (Szent György-hegy), Balaton, Hungary.
• 2022 Participant, Erasmus+ Staff Mobility – Multiplier Event of the INNO-TEC-LAB Project, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland.
• 2021 Resident, EU Craft Hub: Maker Exchange Residencies (virtual) – a European platform for craft and innovation exchange.
• 2021 Participant, Erasmus+ Mobility – Glass Symposium Annín, Czech Republic.
• 2020 Participant, NORDES Summer School – Collectives: Designing Beyond the Individual, organized by the Nordic Design Research Society.
• 2020 Participant, Research through Design (RtD) in Situ Workshop, part of DIS 2020: Designing Interactive Systems Conference.
• 2020 Participant, Designing for the End of Life of IoT Objects Workshop, hosted by the University of Edinburgh during DIS 2020.
• 2019 Participant, Erasmus+ Mobility for Proposal Preparation, ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, Spain (Proposal reference: OC-2019-1-23717).
• 2019 Participant, Erasmus+ Mobility – Consortium Meeting for Innovative Training Networks (ITN) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, KU Leuven, Belgium.
• 2017 Participant, Becoming Disabled: A Performative Workshop and Installation, Research Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy.
• 2003–2009 Professional work experience in Torino, Italy.

 

EXHIBITIONS

• 2023 Alchemy of Knowledge: Transdisciplinary Entanglements of Artificial Biology, Robotics, and Art, aqb Project Space, Budapest.
• 2023 Art Market Budapest, Kiskép Galéria, glass vases The Chiaroscuro Chew.
• 2023 5th GlasSpring, Budapest.
• 2022 ABRA: Radical Speculations – Artificial Biology and Robotics Meet Art and Architecture, Dipoli Gallery, Aalto University, Helsinki.
• 2022 Monuments to Impermanence, Umwelt Art&Science Summer Academy, Mount Saint George, Hungary.
• 2022 Shaping – Year of Glass (Hungary, Romania).
• 2022 HOMAGE À GLASS, De la Motte–Beér Palota, Budapest.
• 2022 4th GlasSpring, Klebelsberg Kultúrkúria, Budapest.
• 2022 International Art Education Achievement Exhibition, Gengdan Institute of Beijing University of Technology.
• 2020 co-Ability Design Practices: Matter and Mind in Disability, Austrian Cultural Forum, Budapest.
• 2018 Digital Crafting with MOME Transfer Lab, Tallinn Design Week.
• 2012 Schmuck DE., Munich (What is in Frame? with Gisbert Sach and Réka Lőrincz).
• 2012 10 Contemporary Jewelry Artists + 10 Visual Artists = 10 Objects, Filter Gallery, Budapest.
• 2011 Independence Day Video Mapping, Yerevan, Armenia (with Bordos Artworks).
• 2011 Video Mapping Trophy, Paris, Heavent Centrum (finalist).
• 2011 Art Museum of Timisoara, Romania (video mapping).