Kitchen Budapest (KiBu) is an innovation lab based in

Budapest, Hungary Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population of ...

. It was founded in 2007 by a group of media artists, theoreticians and coders. It was sponsored by Magyar Telekom. Founding members include

Adam Somlai-Fischer Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as " ...

, Peter Halacsy, Robin Nagy, Attila Nemes, and Eszter Bircsák to instigate digital literacy and DIY techniques. KiBu incorporates three functions including research and development ( prototyping, testing, service design, UX/ UI design), education (next generation programs a
Talent and Lift
and industry collaboration. KiBu connects corporate demands with creative supplies, theoretic bias of academic education with tools of the

maker culture The maker culture is a contemporary subculture representing a technology-based extension of DIY culture that intersects with hardware-oriented parts of hacker culture and revels in the creation of new devices as well as tinkering with existing on ...

, talented young people with professional support, global innovation with situated, everyday use. KiBu worked within a network of media labs and bears established contacts with the local universities. KiBu is a place where ideas come alive. Material instantiations of great ideas are the first steps in the making: via 24 hour

hackathon A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest, datathon or codefest; a portmanteau of hacking and marathon) is an event where people engage in rapid and collaborative engineering over a relatively short period of time such as 24 or 48 hours. Th ...

s, pressure cooking sessions they try and test methodologies, concepts, objects, services. KiBu has a well-equipped workshop area to enable wide-ranging projects to be manufactured, programmed or constructed from

3D printers 3D printing or additive manufacturing is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model. It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is deposited, joined or solidified under computer co ...

to strong server parks to run high fidelity renders. The prototypes are publicized at Demo Day, the biannual showcase event.

Associated people

Alumni

, co-founder of

Prezi Prezi is a Hungarian video and visual communications software company founded in 2009 in Hungary, with offices in San Francisco, Budapest and Riga as of 2020. According to Prezi, in 2021, the software company has more than 100 million users world ...

* Peter Halacsy, CTO of

* David Lakatos, co-founder of Sold. * György Péter, media theorist * Nemes Attila, art historian, curator
Bujdosó Attila
architect * Bircsák Eszter * Sipos Melinda

Sources

* SubMap × UrbanCyclr, in: '
Visual Simplexity
'', Entwickler.Press, 2013, , p. 195. * ''A Touch of Code'

in: A Touch of Code, Gestalten, 2011, , p. 60-61, p. 224-225. * mcd musiques & cultures digitales #6

March–April–May 2011, , p. 76-77.
Science Parks vs. Boutique Labs
/ Businessweek, June 1, 2009
About Kitchen Budapest

External links

Kitchen Budapest's website

Érezni tanulnak a mikrochipek

Végül csak megjött az a mesterséges intelligencia, ami már az állásunkat kéri

The anthropomorphic AI – A Scaffold

Már a gimiben keresik az IT-sokat

Egy géppel társalogni az emberlétről

Minden városnak kell egy hős – végre Budapesten is beindulnak a szupererők

Egy app a pasidhoz/csajodhoz

Belga díjat kapott Magyarország szubjektív atlasza

“what if you are very kind robbers?..”
- Council
Sound, Lights, Robots Invade London’s Kinetica Art Fair
- Wired, February 6, 2010
Something’s cooking at Kitchen Budapest
- nowEurope, December 8, 2009
Kitchen Budapest (Lift09 experience artists presentation)
- Lift Conference, January 23, 2009
LABtoLAB project
{{authority control Research institutes in Hungary Research institutes established in 2007 2007 establishments in Hungary Hackerspaces