Apol TEMESI

1986, Budapest

textile design artist, raw material scientist

www.apoltemesi.com

www.rawfictiondesign.co

She graduated from the Pázmány Péter Catholic University as an art historian, then in 2014 as a textile designer from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. She is currently a DLA candidate at the Doctoral School of MOME, where her research focuses on restorative raw material focused design. As a designer, she focuses on natural, renewable raw materials and on topical challenges caused by the textile industry. In  2018, her innovative material development of wool acoustic panels was selected for the Climate-KIC Accelerator programme, where she won an award and a special prize. In 2019, she was awarded the László Moholy-Nagy Scholarship, and in 2020 she won a prize at the Climate-KIC Retrofit international climate innovation competition.