The Design of Ideas Salon will host daily lectures and discussions introducing ideas that shape our reality in the face of postmodernism, contemporary theology, politics, society, and technology, asking: where do we go next?

Friday, 24.6, 14:30-16:00 in the courtyard, Sun-Thu, 26-30.6, 17:00-18:30 in the pen compound.

*The sessions will be held in Hebrew

29.6 Wednesday

19:00 In the Blink of an Eye

Youth, aging, memory, and time as creative material

Moderated by Galit Gaon, the conversation will be held in Hebrew

Featuring animator Ben Valina, curator Daniel Nachmias and the Matchmaker

20:00 Tour of the exhibition Matchmaker

Gaon’s Salon returns to Jerusalem Design Week 2022 as a daily section inviting the audience to join an intimate and enriching conversation with creative individuals, intellectuals and experts on design, science and technology. Together with design curator Galit Gaon, they expand the discussion centered around the themes presented in Design Week, anchoring its content. The Salon is a cross-disciplinary curatorial platform that moves through time and space, and between the digital and physical realms, offering a real-time encounter between the transient and what is yet to come. Situated in the courtyard against the backdrop of the Time Tunnel, Galit Gaon will host detectors of the past and designers of the future local visual culture. Throughout the week, varying exhibitors will meet with a diverse range of researchers and embark on a joint journey through different time zones. This year, the Salon is pleased to introduce a special section dedicated to Animation Union Israel. Each evening, a series of short films will be screened in the Salon, and uploaded in real time to a digital platform for eternal life.

As part of Bezalel Academy’s masters program in Industrial Design events – you’re invited to an experiential workshop with Mela studio (Michal Evyatar and Carmel Bar) . The workshop connects food, movement and design and it draws on the ” Ekphrasis” technique where one artistic language is translated to another, specifically translating painting into food.

The participants will be divided into couples, choose a canonical painting of a famous artist and inspired by this painting will invent a multi-sensual eating technique by designing both food and serving dishes.

At the end of the workshop the participants will taste the courses and will guess the source of inspiration.

The workshop will make the normative eating experience look pale and possibly other daily rituals.

Audience

12-26 participants.

Culinary knowledge is not needed

Workshop’s length – up to two hours

Wednesday, June 29th, 7pm at Hansen House Garden

The term ‘reaction time’ refers to the interval between stimulation and response. Our absorption, processing, and sensory systems decipher the stimulus, as the information gathered by our senses undergoes cognitive processing, and is encoded in our memory. While we tend to attribute this term to instinctive systems, our body’s communication with the abstract, digital space –  which occupies a central part of our time – produces a disruption in notions of time and space as we know them, challenging our reaction time in these new territories. Reaction Time  is a playful arena within which the exhibiting artists challenge their viewers’ perception of reality and how they process information, producing an elastic experience of time that flows on parallel planes.

An evening with the Master of Design (M.Des) Program’s Alumni

What is important now? How can we influence and change the agenda? How might we make our surroundings more suitable for the variety of needs and approaches toward identity, living, and movement? How can existing technologies be used, and how can future technologies be created, in order to sustain memory and communication in new and meaningful ways?

The program’s graduates will present the works they developed during their studies, and discuss their work process, as well as their plans for further development.

Designers: Avigail Rubini, Udi Nachum, Ilanit Aharoni, Alon Halamit, Noa Ilan, Keren Zehavi, Shir Senior and Shiri Mahler

Moderator: Dr. Romi Mikulinsky

Head of the Master of Design (M.Des) Program in Industrial Design

Hansen House patio, Wednesday, 29.6, 20:30-22:00