Pál Koós habil.
university professor, BA programme lead, Rector, supervisor
Product Design BA
BA programme lead
Product Design BA
university professor
Design MA in English
university professor
Rector's Cabinet Office
Rector
Doctoral School
supervisor

Pál Koós is a Ferenczy Noémi award-winning designer, university professor, and the Rector of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.

Fields of education
product design

Biography

He has been an active product designer since 1997. He has been lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design since 2002. In 2007 he became the Deputy Head of the Product Design Department, then department head in 2010. In 2014 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Design Institute, and in 2015 he was made Director. He has been the Vice Rector of the university since 2019. He has been a key member of the university's Doctoral School since 2019. From 2020 onwards he has been the Design MA programme lead. He has been an Art Committee member of the Hungarian Accreditation Committee since 2012. In 2015 he became a member of the Hungarian Design Council, then between 2015 and 2019 he was Vice President. Since 2018 he has been a panel member for the Hungarian Design Awards. In 2023 he became a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. Prior to that, he was a corresponding member.

Awards, recognition

Noémi Ferenczy Award 2010

Hungarian Design Award 2007

Second Step Into the Future Competition 1998

1st prize

Member of the European
Network of
Innovative
Higher Education Institutions
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