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Janka Csernák

Category Service Design

Janka Csernák DLA is a social designer and design researcher currently leading the Society & Action Lab at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. Her background of product design, concept design, and curatorship for diverse audiences has informed her work in social design since 2015. Her research focuses on the relationship between gender and social design, speculative design, and social innovation. In addition to teaching multidisciplinary social design courses in Zagreb (ALU), Gent (KASK), Tallinn (EKA), and conducting workshops during hackathons and summer universities, she is also a co-founder of the Social Design Network. She received the Fondation Jacques Rougerie Award in 2013, and the Hungarian Design Award for several projects in 2014 and 2015.