Creativity gains new possibilities: from the technical point of view, these possibilities appear in design (the mode and aims of creation). These days not only real but virtual spaces need to be designed by experts. Expert fields and branches of art keep fusing and diverging, and our environment is swarming with examples of the great changes that manifested themselves in the form and content of the instruments of culture.

MOKK is the workplace of researchers who joined hands to conduct problem-oriented, multidisciplinary research relating to technical, social, and philosophical questions arising from the emergence of the global archive. As a research and study centre at the university of technology, we are focusing on the recognition and utilisation of the role of new media in education and society.

MOKK was founded in 2002 as a joint effort of the Department of Sociology and Communication at the Budapest University of Technologyand Economy and the leading Hungarian telco, MATÁV Rt with the aim of furthering multi-disciplinary research and education in the field of new media in Hungary. MOKK's teaching and research staff comes from very different academic backgrounds - such as economics, urban sociology, media studies, cultural studies, computer science, cognitive sciences and linguistics - but share an interest in new media technologies.

MOKK is built around the conviction that it is impossible to understand the sociocultural effects of new technologies without taking into account their technical foundations and attributes; and conversely, in order to develop succesful new media applications one needs to understand the sociocultural context of their use.

MOKK is involved in several on-going R&D projects such as the National Digital Archive; Szószablya (Wordchopper), an open source morphological analysis application for the Hungarian language; Hunglish, an open source mechanical statistical translator application (Hungarian-English; English-Hungarian); and Agyfarm (Brainfarm), an integrated on-line group-work, publication and communication platfrorm for Hungarian academic researchers.