Bálint Veres, aesthetician, habilitated tenured associate professor, head of the DLA / PhD-in-practice at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest (MOME). He is the head of the Hungarian Forum for Somaesthetics, a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Aesthetics, and a member of the International Society of Intermedia Studies. Balint founded the equal opportunities workshop at MOME (TransferLab, 2012-2019), a work group dealing with disability and design (Atelier: Disability Design, 2023-), a research group of atmospheric architecture (MOME Aetmostudio, 2024-), a sound culture research platform (MOME Sound Workshop, 2024-) and the university's rock climbing club (MOME Climb 2024-). In addition to his studies in philosophy, he also studied music and then combined the two fields to earn a doctorate in music aesthetics (2008). Over the past decade, he has expanded his research into the fields of somaesthetics, everyday aesthetics, architecture, intermedia, film art, textile art, design theory, and media philosophy. In 2015, he habilitated in design culture studies. In addition to his scientific and teaching work, he considers it important to participate actively in the cultural sphere in many different ways: he has been an active music critic for many years, program editor of the Pannonhalma Arcus Temporum Arts Festival (2005-2014), research fellow at music institutions, art consultant to architectural firms, translator of art theory works, curator, and organizer of round tables and conferences. He was a Zoltán Kodály scholarship holder from 2004 to 2006, and in 2021 he received the Apáczai Csere János Award in recognition of his outstanding work as a university lecturer.
