Lena Dubinsky

Lena Dubinsky is a designer, a researcher, and a lecturer at the Ceramics and Glass Design Department. In her work, she explores the issues related to the renewed recognition of the designer's social and environmental responsibility and the ethical aspects of doing and self-production. Dubinsky looks after opportunities to realize local material language and manufacturing values in the age of globalization. Her work is included in international exhibitions and collections, and she received several prizes and grants. Additionally, she curates' exhibitions and writes articles concerning craft in the contemporary world.

As an educator in Bezalel, she focused on design-oriented problem solving for sociological and ecological issues. She was the Head of Product Design Specialization in Ceramic and Glass Design Department between 2008-2014. Since 2014 she is holding a position as Senior researcher and the head of Research Cluster Group "Material Design" in Bezalel Research and Innovation Authority. She worked as a guest lecturer in numerous institutions in Israel and Europe.

Lena earned a bachelor's degree with honors at Bezalel Academy. She finished her master's degree with honors at Tel Aviv University. Her thesis discussed the aesthetic and political implications of city plans developed by the Jerusalem Committee formed to modernize architecture and municipal design in Jerusalem after 1967.  At present, she is a doctoral candidate at the Computational Archaeology Laboratory and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The Hebrew University. Her dissertation focuses on developing a method for analyzing archeological engraving techniques, using the "Chariots" engraving at the Timna site as her study case.

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