Zsófia Szonja Illés:  Designing Sustainable Future
Channel: Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg (iASK) - Felsőbbfokú Tanulmányok Intézete
Date: 2023-04-12

In her thought-provoking lecture at the 5th UNESCO MOST Winter School, Zsófia Szonja Illés offered a solution on how to design future that is going towards sustainability. She introduced her sensory methods in place-making design and explained how design-based methods can contribute to resolving global problems such as climate change and other environmental issues. She emphasised the difference between hostile architecture and place-making design to illustrate how we shape our environment and how the environment, in turn, shapes our behaviour. Zsófia is a researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies Koszeg (iASK) and Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) with a Collaborative Doctoral Scholarship (KDP). She is a multidisciplinary artist and designer with an environmentally and socially engaged practice.