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Damla Çay – Uncomfortable Dining with Data Tableware

18 June 2026

Damla Çay from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest visited DIVERSE-CDT this week.

On 16 June, Damla presented her intriguing ‘Balaton Borders‘ work that translates ecological data into ceramic tableware, representing human impact on the landscape. The pieces are used in performative dining contexts to turn shared meals into multisensory encounters where food and data ceramics spark collective reflection on ecological disruption.

Damla Çay from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest speaking in the Diverse CDT data vis lab and showing a photograph of a meal laid out with data ceramics, specially designed to represent ecological disruption in areas round Lake Balaton in Hungary.

She also ran a workshop on the Urban Data Visualization card deck that she has developed for creating, critiquing, calibrating, and curating urban data visualizations.

Photograph of six cards from the urban data visualization card deck developed by Damla Çay from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest

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