Common ground
In 2021, with a group of 10 friends from university we bought a community plot in Gyékényes with a small vine cellar, vineyard and lots of pine trees. The aim was to create a place where we can create freely, take collective responsibility, host and curate projects. This is how a wood-fire ceramic kiln was built as a diploma project in spring 2023, and six months later we hosted the MOME 2023 builders' camp. In 2024 we designed and built a bath house and outdoor kitchen that collects and cleans rainwater to supplement the missing water infrastructure. In the building we reused brick collected from the village, leftover timber from previous building camp, and used cement tiles from marketplace. These building camps brought us closer to the local neighbours who helped with their inherited knowledge of building.