bio
Viktória is a jurist, independent researcher, consultant with a background in law, conceptual and critical design.
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background
Viktória (b. 1992) was raised in Budapest (Hungary).
Having been interested in social coexistence she acquired a Master’s degree in Law at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary (summa cum laude, 2017). During legal studies, she was focused on constitutional law. In her legal education and subsequent work experiences she researched, witnessed and embodied the contemporary qualities of the legal infrastructure space.
While the gap between the law as her ideal and the law as reality widened, she started to familiarize herself with the field of design, being engaged in questioning contemporary social structural phenomena, engaged in the imagination of alternative futures, creating dialogue on what could be and giving space to think alternatively through creative, embodied means.
In 2019 she enrolled at the Critical Inquiry Lab (MA) at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. The academy offered a space to be engaged with certain parts of the law otherwise, while she developed a profound understanding of critical and creative research. In her final year, she explored the philosophical implications of restorative justice, an alternative to punitive justice.
Having been interested in social coexistence she acquired a Master’s degree in Law at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary (summa cum laude, 2017). During legal studies, she was focused on constitutional law. In her legal education and subsequent work experiences she researched, witnessed and embodied the contemporary qualities of the legal infrastructure space.
While the gap between the law as her ideal and the law as reality widened, she started to familiarize herself with the field of design, being engaged in questioning contemporary social structural phenomena, engaged in the imagination of alternative futures, creating dialogue on what could be and giving space to think alternatively through creative, embodied means.
In 2019 she enrolled at the Critical Inquiry Lab (MA) at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. The academy offered a space to be engaged with certain parts of the law otherwise, while she developed a profound understanding of critical and creative research. In her final year, she explored the philosophical implications of restorative justice, an alternative to punitive justice.
education
MA in Fine Arts and Design
The Critical Inquiry Lab
Design Academy Eindhoven
Netherlands
cum laude + Gijs Bakker Design Award Nomination for design research excellence
2021.
MA in Law
Faculty of Law
Eötvös Lorand University
Hungary
summa cum laude
2017.
The Critical Inquiry Lab
Design Academy Eindhoven
Netherlands
cum laude + Gijs Bakker Design Award Nomination for design research excellence
2021.
MA in Law
Faculty of Law
Eötvös Lorand University
Hungary
summa cum laude
2017.
participated at
Legal reparation, exhibition and workshop, Bratislava Design Week (SK), 19 Oct 2024
Legal Reparation, lecture and workshop, Budapest (HU), Terre des Hommes, 27 Sept 2024
Soft and Practile Guide for Twinning Arrangements on Restortive Justice for children, presentation as consultant for Terre des Hommes, i-RESTORE 2.0 Closing Conference, Brussels, 02 Sept 2024
Terra Nullius, artist in residence, Laznia Contemporary Art, Gdansk (PL), June/July 2024 Horizontal social histology, cosmologing night with Gyula Kaslik, at KK32 (HU), 08 Apr 2024
Apparato Radicale, text in collaboration with Gabó Bartha, Puja Journal
panelist, Je verrai toujours vos visages directed by Jeanne Herry, Utrecht (NL), 30 November 2023
Legal reparation, lecturer, Performativity in Law, Brno (CZ), 20-21 October 2023 Legal reparation, lecturer, Critical Legal Conference 2023 / Stream Global Feminist Constitutionalism, Durham University Law School (UK), 11-13 September 2023
Terra Nullius, research residency, Laznia Contemporary Art (PL), Visegrad Fund, 05/06. 2023
Design as discernment, text, Bring it home - publication edited by Juliette Mirabito, Dopo? (IT), 04.2023
Unseen, lecture, Living Project (HU), 13.01.2023
Design and restorative justice, lecturer, Kazerne (NL), 21.04.2022
Dutch Design Week, exhibitor, Beursgebouw (NL) 16.10.2021 - 24.10.2021
The body matrix, panellist, Arena, Beursgebouw (NL) 17.10.2021
Systems of inheritance, speaker, Elevator Radio (NL) 21.10.2021.
The Unlearning Festival, Ponderosa Stolzenhagen (DE) 30.08.2021 - 12.09.2021
Corpus juris, text, CARE WHERE? Zine (DE) 07. 2021
Legal Reparation, lecture and workshop, Budapest (HU), Terre des Hommes, 27 Sept 2024
Soft and Practile Guide for Twinning Arrangements on Restortive Justice for children, presentation as consultant for Terre des Hommes, i-RESTORE 2.0 Closing Conference, Brussels, 02 Sept 2024
Terra Nullius, artist in residence, Laznia Contemporary Art, Gdansk (PL), June/July 2024 Horizontal social histology, cosmologing night with Gyula Kaslik, at KK32 (HU), 08 Apr 2024
Apparato Radicale, text in collaboration with Gabó Bartha, Puja Journal
panelist, Je verrai toujours vos visages directed by Jeanne Herry, Utrecht (NL), 30 November 2023
Legal reparation, lecturer, Performativity in Law, Brno (CZ), 20-21 October 2023 Legal reparation, lecturer, Critical Legal Conference 2023 / Stream Global Feminist Constitutionalism, Durham University Law School (UK), 11-13 September 2023
Terra Nullius, research residency, Laznia Contemporary Art (PL), Visegrad Fund, 05/06. 2023
Design as discernment, text, Bring it home - publication edited by Juliette Mirabito, Dopo? (IT), 04.2023
Unseen, lecture, Living Project (HU), 13.01.2023
Design and restorative justice, lecturer, Kazerne (NL), 21.04.2022
Dutch Design Week, exhibitor, Beursgebouw (NL) 16.10.2021 - 24.10.2021
The body matrix, panellist, Arena, Beursgebouw (NL) 17.10.2021
Systems of inheritance, speaker, Elevator Radio (NL) 21.10.2021.
The Unlearning Festival, Ponderosa Stolzenhagen (DE) 30.08.2021 - 12.09.2021
Corpus juris, text, CARE WHERE? Zine (DE) 07. 2021