Erzsébet Hosszu
Researcher, doctoral student
Doctoral School
doctoral student
Innovation Center
Researcher

Bözse Hosszu graduated as an architect from MOME in 2015. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Doctoral School and a researcher at the Innovation Centre's Social Design Hub. She also teaches courses in R&D and design methodology at the Institute of Architecture.

Fields of education
participative design
human centered design
design research
Fields of research
attachment to places
attachment to objects
loss of place
environmental psychology
inter-culturality
vulnerable groups
community building
trauma therapy
placemaking

Biography

Doctoral candidate and architect Bözse Hosszú has been a researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg (iASK) since 2021, and the MOME Innovation Centre since 2023. Outside academia, Bözse has been working with young refugees and disadvantaged Hungarian youth since 2013 as co-founder of Open Doors, where she facilitates creative workshops and design projects to support the development of creative competencies and community building among vulnerable groups. She is combining her academic career at the Doctoral School of MOME with her civil activities in her research "Home away from home - The role of participatory design processes in dealing with the trauma of forced migration and loss of place", where she presents design processes as a complementary tool for trauma therapy. In 2021, her research was awarded a 30-month Doctoral Student Fellowship from the National Research, Development and Innovation Office's Cooperative Doctoral Programme, and she has presented the methodology she is currently developing at international conferences in Belgium, the UK, France and Austria.
Bözse currently works as a researcher at the Social Design Hub on socially sensitive research projects such as the Urban Placemaking for Safe School Zones, the Social Design Field Lab and Change Agents. She also teaches R&D and design methodology courses at the Institute of Architecture, where her main motivation is to add participatory and human-centred design methods to students' professional toolboxes.

Awards, recognition

Cooperative Doctoral Programme Doctoral Student Scholarship

National Research, Development and Innovation Office

UNHCR Innovation Award

MiraDoor Intercultural Community Space

Publications

Publication title
Erzsébet Hosszu: Everyday Objectsin Trauma Therapy

Achievements

co-founder

Member of the European
Network of
Innovative
Higher Education Institutions
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