Ms. Eszter Bircsák & Mr. Barnabás Málnay, Directors, Kitchen Budapest, Hungary

Interdisciplinary diving board -

The Kitchen Budapest model; Beyond the weekdays: new routes of collecting knowledge and sharing

(Abstract) The talk will introduce Kitchen Budapest, a media lab located in downtown Budapest, founded in 2007 by Magyar Telekom. In the past four years, Kitchen Budapest has managed over a 100 successful projects of varying complexity in the broadly conceived fields of art&technology and new media, has deeply integrated into the rich international scene made up of other media labs and related institutions, and has provided its young researchers with plentiful opportunities to show their work at exhibitions, art fairs, and conferences. KIBU’s basic aim is to serve as a platform where ideas are materializing, so that some end up as installations in a cultural context, others as products in the market. What is the role of such an institution in the contemporary Hungarian innovation landscape? How can the pursuit of unbridled creativity, interdisciplinarity, and radical collaboration contribute to the expansion of this landscape? These are some of the questions that will be discussed in the presentation.