Turning great ideas to great events
Special projects
We do walks for a living and we cannot wait to hear your unusual ideas as well! Turning crazy ideas into reality is our mission at hosszúlépés.
Do you want a unique, customized city walk? Are you looking for special locations? Are you interested in long-forgotten Budapest stories?
You feel like you've seen it all? We are happy to organize and execute any event, be it a book launch, commemoration, extreme team building or product launch campaign.
Let us show you the collaborations we are really proud of.
A Király - mini series on RTL+
RTL+ created a mini series based on the life of Jimmy Zámbó, a controversial 80's Hungarian pop legend. We have placed twelve QR codes throughout the city, which, when scanned, bring to life the defining locations of his life and the era of which he became a symbol of. Growing up in the thick of Erzsébetváros and then finding a home in Csepel, the artist who never let go of his dreams reached the top but he didn't find peace there either. He was a hero of the regime change, a period when most Hungarians, freed from oppression, encountered uncertainty instead of the desired secure future. We evoked this world in our interactive program entitled "King's Pilgrimage", where the people of Budapest could use their mobile phones to visit Budapest locations connected to the life of Jimmy Zámbó.
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Swiss Embassy - Carl Lutz commemorative year
The three main pillars of our cooperation were the unique content development, organizing of press event and the complementary city walks for the public. The Embassy wanted to present an important part of Hungarian-Swiss history to a wide Hungarian audience. In connection with the jubilee event in memory of the Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz, we organized themed city walks and visited the most important monuments, places and houses that remind us of Carl Lutz. The commemoration also offered an opportunity to present Switzerland's humanitarian traditions. As an opening event, we organized a picnic for the press in Szent István Park, in the vicinity of one of the former protected houses. After the press picnic, we went for a walk with the media representatives led by historian Laura Csonka. Thanks to the Embassy, hundreds of Hungarians learnt about Carl Lutz on free walks during the commemorative year.
Bonitás Asset Management Fund - The Colorful Akadémia Wall
It only takes a great idea to turn a gray wall into one of your favorite spots in the neighborhood. The ugly fence that disfigured the Pasarét villa district was renewed in 2022 with creativity and a little paint. The initiative came from the 2nd District Local Government and the owner of the area, Bonitás Asset Management Fund LLC. We teamed up with Színesváros to create both concepts: for Children's Day, we decorated the wall’s Fenyves Street playground section with our favorite childhood cartoon characters. The section of the wall that opens onto Erzsébet Szilágyi fasor honours the local heroes who lost their life during the 1956 revolution.
Municipality of 2nd District Budapest - Broken Lives
In the winter of 2021, we created the concept of an outdoor exhibition to commemorate the victims of the World War II siege of Buda. The open-air exhibition offered a cultural experience to the residents of the district with a creative solution amid the limited possibilities of the coronavirus pandemic. Therefore the local community had a chance to remember the victims of the siege of Buda together.
During World War II, the local population was decreased by a quarter. The siege of Buda lasted for more than 100 days, not sparing the army nor the civilian population and the buildings of the once peaceful city quarter. The exhibition, working with strong visual elements, provided faces to numbers, showing the lives broken by the war through the history of each family.
Telenor X Artificial Group - Chatbot
Our urban walk team may not be at hand at all times, what shall you do when in need of an instant walk? In 2020, the Telenor Hipernet Chatbot helped with such difficult life situations. We researched the most exciting stories of Budapest, Szeged, Debrecen and Pécs, and then an enthusiastic team of photographers, illustrators and copywriters transformed them into entertaining and informative audiovisual content. The tour guide was a chatbot: users found their way between the points of interest by maps, photos and gifs and upon arriving at the checkpoints, the explorer could choose whether they wanted to listen or read a short story about the particular attraction.
Big Bang Media - Immersive Urban Games for the Budapest Noir Movie Premiere
For one Saturday evening we brought to life the exciting, adventurous and lush world of the Budapest of the 1930s. The participants of the urban game were immersed in the atmosphere of the movie Budapest Noir, and experienced the story of criminal reporter Gordon Zsigmond. The brave participants used a map to find hidden locations in the city center, where they solved puzzles and met the unsavory characters of the 1930s. The luckiest ones won a pair of tickets to the screening of the film before its premiere.
Budapest Date Map X POKET
Where should you go on a date when you are broke but keen on turning up the romance to the max? We teamed up with POKET Book Project to write and draw Budapest's lesser-known but charming places. What's more, we also gave tips on what to do on a decent date. Since 2018, our little publication has helped a lot of young and not-so-young couples to escape from the "let's go to the movies" pit.
Wonder Women - Our mission
Have you ever noticed how few female statues there are in Budapest? We realized this in 2019 and since then we have been doing everything we can to change this sad situation. There are nearly 1200 statues in Budapest and only 35 of them depict women who have names and not just naked bodies or allegorical figures. In March 2019 on International Women's Day we erected cardboard statues all over the city, depicting heroines who deserve to be remembered. Although the paper sculptures were out on the streets for only one day, the success was clear. Thousands of passers-by stopped and were happy that at least for a few hours, some women could be remembered in our public spaces. After the unanimous positive feedback, we launched our movement: Wonder Women Budapest. In the fall of 2020, within the framework of an online campaign, the citizens of Budapest could vote for ten heroines in five categories. Our first tangible result is related to the Hungarian-Israeli heroine, the martyred Hanna Szenes. In March 2020, on International Women's Day, a mini-sculpture by Mihály Kolodko was inaugurated in Szenes Hanna park in Erzsébetváros. During the rehabilitation of Széna tér in Buda, we erected a bust of Hanna Szenes by the artist Zsófia Fáskerti located opposite the prison where the poetess was executed.
