Dr. Rachel Gottesman is a historian of the ancient Mediterranean world and has a special interest in environmental history and spatial theory. Her PhD offered a spatial analysis of mythic cycles and a reconstruction of ancient maritime networks. She held a postdoctoral position at Haifa University and was head of the Research Lab at the Liebling Huse Tel Aviv.  Gottesman is a co-curator of the Israeli Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale  (opening May 2021). She publishes fiction and non-fiction in the fields of history, spatiality, architecture and literature.

Ira Goldman, Tel-Aviv based senior Fashion Designer with extensive experience in tailoring and multiproduct design in local, UK and US brands. She is a lecture at the Fashion Department at Shenkar and Jewelry & Fashion Design Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Goldman holds a B.Des in fashion design from Shenkar and is a recent graduate of the M.Des in Industrial Design, design & technology track at Bezalel. In her work, Goldman explore emotional aspects of human interaction with objects, from production stage to the final user experience.