Johanna Dezső

Johanna Dezső began her studies in the jewelry design department at the Pécs High School and Secondary School of Arts. After obtaining her qualification, she continued her design-focused education at the Corvin Drawing School in Budapest. Since September 2022, she has been a student in the industrial design program at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.

During her time at the university, she has had the opportunity to participate in numerous exciting projects, competitions and events. As a first-year student, she and her peers won a special prize at the Social Impact Hackathon with their PlantSaiI project, and they were also selected for the START Start-up Program. In her second year at university, she participated in the Erasmus exchange program during the spring/summer semester of 2024 at the Free University of Bolzano in Italy. This gave her the opportunity to gain insight into the world of Italian design and thinking, and she also took part in the GOG exhibition organized by the university.

About the products

Body-creation

A homologous furniture collection

The body creation furnitures were created as part of „The skin of things” project on Erasmus. The collection is based on homologous properties. The concept focuses on adaptation regarding skin. lt can be a reaction to external environmental factors, for example in the case of evolutionary development. In the case of homology, organs that originate from a common ancestor and have the same morphological structure develop different functions with different skins. Modification and adaptation can be found everywhere, they show where we come from and help us determine our identity. By creating a skeleton and modifying it for different functions, we can create our own species. The concept is an open play based on this principle, giving the freedom of inventing new functions – e.g. new species – with new skins.