Doing Good | Bezalel-led Emergency Initiatives
עושים/ות משהו טוב | יוזמות בשעת חירום
أعمال خيرية | مبادرات طلابية من بتسلئيل للمساعدة في وضع الطوارئ
Fine Arts (B.F.A.)
Department of Fine Arts
המחלקה לאמנות
قسم الفنون
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The formation of a creative artist is a complex process – its sources cannot be deciphered nor can its results be anticipated. Art constantly expands and breaks through boundaries – never resting on its laurels. It embraces new media and produces infinite connections and combinations; occasionally it abandons traditional tools only to revive them at unexpected times.
In a world of social media, reality TV and selfies, artists must navigate changing frontiers of self-expression. Functioning in complex environments, they must continuously determine what it means for art to reflect the world as it is or as it could be.
The Department of Fine Arts presents students with all the tools to explore this new reality and its earlier iterations. Along with a sound technical, historic and theoretical foundation, the program seeks to help students hone their intuition and access their individual identity by examining the shifting geographic, political, cultural and technological world around them so they can truly capture unique moments in time.
The Department is a space for creativity and experimentation, a stage for self-expression and artistic impulses, for questions that evolve into producing and promoting new ideas. Encouraging interdisciplinary conversations and intensive dialogues with other diverse professional disciplines, it is a site for the discussions and debates on social, communal, intellectual and geopolitical issues that formulate and advance the country’s discourse and artistic activity.
The Department of Fine Arts was the inspiration for the founding of Bezalel – the first art school in Israel. It has been the heart of the Academy since the early 20th century, educating generations of artists, painters, sculptors, video artists and performers of national and international renown, shaping local creative culture and visual thinking and establishing glorious traditions associated with the name of Jerusalem, the people of Israel and the Middle East.
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Industrial Design (B.Des)
Department of Industrial Design
המחלקה לעיצוב תעשייתי
قسم التصميم الصناعي
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Bezalel’s Department of Industrial Design provides its students with the tools, processes and skill-set needed to develop thoughtful, responsible, human-centered design solutions and responses to an extensive variety of problems and the constant changes and global challenges that affect all aspects of our lives. Since its establishment over 35 years ago, the Department, the first of its kind in Israel, has guided generations of young designers in this multifaceted process, stressing the important role they play in making our lives and the world a better place.
Throughout their studies students are taught the design process and are trained to design with intention, considering purpose and function, the individual and the community. They learn to incorporate economic, cultural and social values into their designs and strive to marry them harmoniously in both urban and natural surroundings - whether they are designing everyday products, services, systems and processes or developing comprehensive strategies, targeted responses or pioneering innovations.
In our ever-changing complex world, the abilities students gain at the Academy are crucial to the time and global space in which we live. They learn to be both strategic and holistic in their approach, to be flexible yet able to develop well-conceived and executed designs, to think creatively and critically and recognize what is important. They study how to use technological advancements to peoples’ benefit and to lead, understand and interact with teams from different fields. They are taught to produce significant new value.
The interdisciplinary curriculum is all encompassing – it delves into the semiotics of form and function, color and esthetics, traditional crafts and digital technologies, deals with issues of commerce, accessibility, inclusivity, sustainability, environmental considerations, and trains students to become adept in the language of science, logic, artificial intelligence and data. All these help and complement students in acquiring the main tool of the industrial designer “design thinking” – a sharpened skillset capable of being adapted to any topic in any field.
By the time they graduate, students have become proficient in anthropological qualitative research, identifying a problem and defining human needs and motivations. They know how to experiment, formulate conclusions and responses and an orderly plan of action – to push boundaries impelled by a burning desire to act and create.
Bezalel’s Department of Industrial Design is home to a community that continues to grow, adapt and develop extensive knowledge in the ever-changing requirements of the field. This community designs for good – responding, improving, innovating, advancing and helping find new ways to thrive in the world we live in.
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Urban Design (M.Urb.Des)
Master's Program in Urban Design (M.Urb.Des.)
התכנית לתואר שני בעיצוב אורבני
برنامج اللقب الثاني في التصميم الحضري
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Urban Design encompasses far more than the layout of houses, roads and public buildings; it examines cities’ social fabric and their relation to the urban landscape. Along with understanding the architecture and infrastructure of the city, urban designers learn to recognize the cultural, social, historical and economic factors at play.
The program’s curriculum gives students the ability to integrate theoretical and analytical discourse into their planning and design thinking. Its courses address contemporary issues of public concern through multidisciplinary research and practice with faculty from a wide range of disciplines. The program also examines political, social and economic issues that stem from adding new urban layers onto existing cities alongside conditions of urbanization in peripheral areas. Students learn how to challenge conventional social and political thinking involving land use resources and the preservation of those resources from the perspective of sustainable development.
The program asserts that any creative activity in the context of one area of study serves as a source of inspiration for another. Often in collaboration with relevant stakeholders and communities, students in the ‘urban lab’ analyze and address case studies of complex urban environments, which then become relevant to other similar environments.
Located in Jerusalem – a city that is at the same time unified, divided, fragmented, contested, mixed and both post- and neo-colonial – the program provides a platform to explore the intersections of various urban processes in time and space, and through their study, equips students with a sound basis in critical urban theory, geography and urban design strategies and tactics.
Graduates of Bezalel’s urban design program are dedicated to enriching peoples’ quality of life through innovative, knowledge-based design – inspiring, illustrating and investigating how a place can best serve its inhabitants and passers-by. Equipped with skills and training, education and experience, they work to promote new approaches and influence the discipline both locally and globally.
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Visual and Material Culture (B.A.)
Department of Visual and Material Culture
המחלקה לתרבות חזותית וחומרית
قسم الثقافة المرئية والمادية
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We live in a world where networks and new forms of communication capture our gaze, algorithms calculate awareness and the user experience. Is this reality or an illusion? These boundaries are becoming more and more blurred, and even love has become an app.
The Department of Visual and Material Culture is the only program in Israel that offers a theoretical degree in a creative environment. The program of study is three years long and deals with the theoretical and research dimensions of the fields of visual and material culture. As part of their studies, students will develop the ability to observe, examine, and think about everyday questions in a new, creative, and boundary-breaking way, will actually experience working with ideas, and will study theoretical as well as practical courses in the various Bezalel departments, with a unique connection between theory and practice.
As part of their studies, students will meet researchers, as well as creators and artists, will be part of a creative community, and will experience academic learning different from that found anywhere else: personal, touching, empowering, and mind-expanding - workshops, reading groups and personal guidance in projects, student exchanges abroad and connections with leading cultural and research institutions in Israel and around the world.
The faculty and lecturers in the department come from the fields of history, critical theory and philosophy of art as well as from the practical fields of art, architecture, and design. At the new Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Bezalel campus in the center of Jerusalem, diverse learning spaces are open to students, where they will be active partners in thought and creative action from the very beginning.
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בצלאל X - אודות
New Technologies at Bezalel
טכנולוגיות חדשות בבצלאל
تكنولوجيا جديدة في بتسلئيل
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Bezalel X - Art, Design and Technology
Transforming the Future
In the past, art and design were considered simply the finishing touch for a tech product; today they are the mindset that inspires technological progress. Rapidly becoming the driving force for new ideas and new products, their critical role has propelled them to the forefront of the development process. This is true throughout the world and particularly in Israel, renowned for its high-tech sector and entrepreneurial spirit.
Conversely, these advanced technologies and sophisticated tools are being used to further art and design, building on traditional techniques and exploring new paths of self-expression, new concepts of esthetics and new forms of communication.
Bezalel empowers its students and faculty to become involved in this pioneering convergence of art and technology, design and innovation, science and creativity, by introducing them to the requisite terminology and skill sets and mentoring them as they find their place in this expanding ecosystem. In parallel, the Academy provides them with the critical ability to analyze and evaluate the social and ethical impact of these emerging technologies that can and will dramatically affect our lives.
As this dynamic intensifies, Bezalel is expanding its alliances and affiliations in Israel and abroad, building partnerships, collaborative projects and entrepreneurial relationships with a vast network of universities and R&D centers, private companies, established businesses, fledgling startups and even non-profits.
To develop effective ways of dealing with major global challenges, using numerous methodologies, Bezalel students and faculty are encouraged to work closely with scientists, engineers, cognitive researchers, AI experts, clinicians and social thinkers in domains such as healthcare, assistive technologies, the implication of climate change, human augmentation and the nature of artistic creation.
These collaborative efforts focus on channeling design processes into entrepreneurial enterprises, creating solutions that will enhance everyday life, leading the way in this exciting era of advances and innovation.
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The School of Architecture
The School of Architecture
בית הספר לארכיטקטורה
مدرسة الهندسة المعمارية
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The School of Architecture includes study programs for a bachelor's degree in architecture (B.ARCH.) and a master's degree in urban design (M.URB.DES.) as well as future programs such as the bachelor's degree in landscape architecture (B.L.A.) in collaboration with the Hebrew University, which is expected to open in the coming academic year. The school is home to a community of lecturers and students who wish to operate, study, and research the fields of architecture, urbanism, and landscape architecture, while trying to expand the field of discourse and deepen practical and theoretical knowledge. The school offers an open learning space that allows overlaps and connections between these fields, based on a broad, flexible, and dynamic academic structure that allows students to move between programs and study tracks and build for each and every one the path best suiting him or her.
Studies are based on an open model that encourages the deepening and strengthening of the various disciplines, while at the same time opening up the boundaries between them, and enabling connections and transitions between the fields in order to offer students a rich and diverse learning experience. The school offers a wide range of possibilities to deepen within the discipline, field, or topic, with a practical or research/theoretical approach, and to move within an academic space that supports building a unique and personalized path. The school space offers a platform for different profiles of students and grows graduates with a wide range of skills and specializations.
The school is located at the historic Bezalel campus in the center of Jerusalem. This unique location is an excellent basis for architectural studies that examine the relationship between the built space and social and community life, and between the historical and contemporary layers of the space.
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Photography (B.F.A)
Department of Photography
המחלקה לצילום
قسم التصوير
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The Department offers its students full academic freedom to explore possible directions for activity, thought and creation – to refine their ability to think critically and observe analytically. The rich spectrum of courses encourages them to develop knowledge of work methods that help them gain technical skills and the opportunity to study both theoretical and practical concepts.
To help understand photography’s global rebirth and the unusual magnitude of its growth and development, the curriculum integrates theoretical, historical and conceptual studies with hands-on technological practice covering a broad range of visual practices. Since photography is also defined by its cultural framework, the program also includes courses on the complex social and political environment of the Middle East.
In the last five decades, Bezalel’s Department of Photography has become recognized as the most prominent and prestigious photography department in the region. Its outstanding academic and professional training, combined with its geopolitical location in Jerusalem and the fact it is an integral part of Israel’s leading arts and design institute, have positioned it as a significant and influential component of the local and international photography world.
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Ceramics and Glass Design (B.F.A)
Department of Ceramics and Glass Design
המחלקה לעיצוב קרמי וזכוכית
قسم تصميم الخزف والزجاج
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The Department of Ceramics and Glass Design is the only academic degree program of its kind in Israel and the Academy’s only program that focuses on the essential understanding the primary materials involved – ceramics and glass. Combining craft and art, students are taught the secrets of ancient materials and given the resources to find ground-breaking new directions for their chosen mediums. Using their acquired knowledge and skills, students can expand their craft to embrace new media, tools and contemporary viewpoints – infusing the visual legacies of Israel’s diverse communities into the future of artistic culture. With this approach, the Department empowers and energizes the students to explore, discover and think out-of-the-box, giving them the freedom and space to realize and pursue what speaks to them personally.
In the world of art and design, professionals need to be recognized as unique – so the Department of Ceramics and Glass Design provides a unique curriculum for each student. Together they learn to marry multiple disciplines, technologies, values and visual culture; individually, they learn to express their singular conclusions through the language of their craft, graduating with superior skills, self-awareness and the ability to present their work to the world.
The Department deals with all design aspects related to today’s most topical and timely issues: from the connection between material activity and digital media through questions about sustainability and ecology to discussions about social and ethical values.
We believe our students come to Bezalel to acquire more than an outstanding professional education but rather to become active partners in developing an ethos of quality, accuracy, commitment and enthusiasm that will change the face of Israeli society. It is precisely the craft tradition (art) that offers a critical starting point and an alternative and value-laden response to the adversities and despair of 21st century society.
The Department is home to those who dream that change can take place and they can help make that happen.
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Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Master's Program in Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
התכנית לתואר שני באמנויות
برنامج اللقب الثاني في الفنون
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Bezalel’s Master’s Program in Fine Arts (M.F.A.) is the Academy’s oldest and most sought-after master’s degree. As the only studio-based program in the region, acceptance is highly competitive. The program acts as an incubator, offering promising emerging artists a unique opportunity to refine their talents as they strive to create an original, focused and experimental body of work.
Bezalel’s M.F.A. stresses that artists do not operate in a vacuum – rather that art is forever informed by the intellectual, moral and cultural climate of the time and place where it is created. This is compounded by the distinctive location in which the program operates reinforces this important viewpoint and the program’s identity. Theory studies and workshops take place on Bezalel’s main campus in Jerusalem, while the individual studio spaces are located in a former textile factory in southern Tel Aviv. This area is a melting pot of immigrants and locals, culturally and economically varied; a semi-industrial neighborhood set amidst centuries-old Jewish, Muslim and Christian sites.
Alongside the local context, the program highlights the global reality and framework in which the young artists operate, offering them a wide spectrum of international collaborations with peer programs, lecturers and leading artists. Throughout their time at the Academy, students are mentored by the program’s multicultural faculty along with local and international artists, while sharing their distinct perspectives within the diverse student body. These meaningful and fruitful encounters often result in innovative and insightful professional cooperation and partnerships – partnerships that continue well past graduation.
The program offers students full academic freedom along with exposure to a wide range of conceptual and artistic perspectives, to help them sharpen their critical point of view and comparative analytic skills. At the same time, the MFA presents its students with the practical skills they will need to pave their way in the art world and beyond it, as dynamic and relevant artists and as socially, politically engaged and active citizens of the world.
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מנהל אקדמי en
Academic Administration
מנהל אקדמי
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המזכירות האקדמית היא הזרוע המבצעת בתחום המנהל האקדמי בבצלאל.
היא משמשת כגוף המתאם את הפעילות המנהלית-אקדמית החל משלב הגשת המועמדות לבצלאל ועד לסיום הלימודים האקדמיים, לרבות טיפול במערך חילופי הסטודנטים בחו"ל ותכניות מיוחדות.
במזכירות האקדמית פועל 'המרכז לפניות הסטודנט' המטפל בפניות בתחום שכר הלימוד, אישורי לימודים, כיתות לימוד ועוד.
עמוד המזכירות האקדמית מתעדכן באופן שוטף לגבי מידע לסטודנטים בנושאים כלל בצלאלים חוצי מחלקות כגון: תקנוני ונהלי האקדמיה, שכר לימוד, נהלי חילופי סטודנטים, לוחות שנה, שנתון אקדמי ועוד.
Pagination