Graduates Exhibition | Master’s Program in Industrial Design (M.Des.)

The Master’s Program in Industrial Design (M.Des.) invites you to the 2024 Graduate Exhibition.

Ever since October 7, we have been experiencing an ongoing internal conflict, a life divided, full of contradictions. Since that day we have been carried away uncontrollably to those moments of horror, moments that many have experienced directly, and some still do. Our thoughts wander constantly to the moments of terror in the communities bordering on Gaza, to the scenes of the Nova music festival, to the fields of the Western Negev. We perform our daily tasks, at home, at work and in school, but at the same time the hostages, the suffering families whose lives have been torn apart and those who no longer have a home are always in our thoughts.

We try to maintain a normal routine, but we also live the ongoing war with all its pain, misery and sadness. On the one hand, we hold on to moments of sanity, but on the other we are driven mad with fear and anxiety . We are torn between the desire to live and the identification with the ongoing destruction and death. These forces of life and death, of emergency and routine, have affected us all over the past eleven months, in which we have been trying to find the right way to go on living, to go on studying and creating out of this crisis.

The Graduates Exhibition of the M.Des Program presents a series of design projects created in this period, affected by the zeitgeist and its inherent dissonance. The final projects of the students in the three tracks of this program – Design & Technology, About Design, and Design Management & Innovation – are dedicated to offering an alternative and to strive for a better life in the present and future, some of which bear directly on the post-October 7 reality and the need to cope with current challenges. The topics engaged by these projects include memory and healing, identity and faith, love, relationships and community, and matter and technology.

These projects invite the audience to linger for a moment, to observe, to find anchors to cling to in days when the ground is shifting under our feet, and regain control of attention, which we need so desperately in order to choose hope and life.

Curator: Itay Ohaly
Assistant Curator: Shira Silverston
Visual Language: Noa Ehrmann
Head of the Master's Program: Dr. Romi Mikulinsky
Program Coordinator: Taryn Gilot
Final Projects Coordinators: Aya Bentur, Ira Goldman, Shlomi Eiger, Dr. Elad Persov

20-27.9.24

Opening:
Friday | September 20, 2024 | 11:00
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Campus, 1 Zmora St., Jerusalem

Opening hours:
Sunday-Thursday 10:00-21:00
Friday 10:00-14:00