Validated Expert info
Expert can perform the Lead expert role and Ad hoc expertise missions at network and programme level in relation to:
1. The design and delivery of (transnational) exchange and learning activities
2. Thematic expertise:
[Culture, Education, Equality-Diversity-Inclusion, Urban design]
3. Methods and tools for integrated and participatory approaches:
> Integrated and participatory design of strategies
> Sustaining stakeholder engagement and translating strategies into actions
Summary
Urban social designer, impact researcher, design, and art manager. I am passionate about urban community building and applying the tools of social design for placemaking of child friendly cities. My evidence- and practice-based doctoral research was assessing the impact of socially committed design and art interventions. As an educator I run university courses about socially conscious design, supervise thesis and diploma projects and I do mentor new innovative ideas and work as a design thinking trainer. Besides design, urbanism, and sociology my special interest lies in psychology, so I have just started my journey of becoming a behavioural analyst.
My motivation as an UBRACT Expert centers on mutual understanding and knowledge transfer. As a founding member of the Social Design Network, I immerse myself in contexts and communities, experiencing the empowering aspects of knowledge sharing to address local challenges through design-based solutions. My academic focus on qualitative impact assessment complements my professional endeavors as a researcher and educator, where I specialize in social design aka inclusive participative design and collaborative placemaking to tackle social challenges. As an Contemporary Architecture Center NGO member, I foster intersectoral collaborations and explore intangible heritage while studying community behavior through environmental psychology. As a Lead Expert I focus on enhancing social design approaches in international urban projects and to apply insights, experiences in urban interventions, while circulating knowledge and learning from communities towards more community-led equitable cities.
EXPERIENCES AS PROJECT LEADER AND EXPERT
- Good practice expert in transferring Budapest100 in URBACT Come in! Transfer Network
- Leading urban community building processes linked to Budapest100 cultural heritage festival
- Leading local-rural capacity building processes in DANURB+ Interreg project
- Facilitating urban ecosystem mapping in UIA CUP4Creativity project
- Leading international Erasmus+ consortiums and networks like Change Agents - Erasmus+
EXPERIENCES AS A DESIGN RESEARCHER - SOCIAL DESIGNER
- Leading a research and product development process in the Urban design research for children's mobility project
- Co-expert in the good practice research project called Green Cities including (data) visualisation coordination and work
- Researcher and expert in Child Friendly City project working with Budapest Municipality
- Concept development in Engage4Bio H2020 proposal and capacity building of green stakeholders
- Incubating and mentoring future designers' projects (product, service designs) and running courses on design research
- Designing and facilitating workshops with human-centred and species-centered approach for social and service design
- Initiating and implementing design research for urban and rural interventions with various stakeholder groups
- Leading the methodology development project called Builder Method - action oriented educational method
- Curriculum development for the Builder Method Erasmus+ HEI and for design and build summer universities