Doing Good | Bezalel-led Emergency Initiatives
עושים/ות משהו טוב | יוזמות בשעת חירום
أعمال خيرية | مبادرات طلابية من بتسلئيل للمساعدة في وضع الطوارئ
Sustainable Development Hub
Bezalel’s Sustainable Development Hub
המרחב לפיתוח מקיים
مركز التنمية المستدامة
Sustainable development stands today at the forefront of the national and global agenda with the United Nations, the European Union, governments, universities, civil societies and business organizations leading the efforts.
This agenda prescribes that sustainability requires simultaneously integrating the need for continuous human and economic development with the need to preserve the opportunity for future generations to continue to develop. Since Bezalel trains the designers, artists and architects who will map out culture and be responsible for the products and structures which will characterize Israeli society, a great deal of responsibility rests on the shoulders of the Academy in respect of the next generations.
Bezalel’s Sustainable Development Hub systematically acts to instill the understanding of this responsibility and helps develop the professional tools and capabilities required to meet this responsibility and affect sustainable change. In its activities, the Sustainable Development Hub encourages students to take on a leadership role by identifying complex universal challenges, asking questions, taking on critical standpoints and implementing solutions that take into consideration social, communal and environmental perspectives.
The essence of Bezalel is comprised from a unique professional identity, a distinctive vocabulary, and singular creative processes. Bezalel’s Sustainable Development Hub leads the efforts for the integration of sustainability at the Academy through the development of an academic infrastructure for teaching and research of sustainable development. The Hub adds to the professional basket of tools available, abilities and capabilities to better cope with the complexities and scale of sustainable development challenges. Among these special capabilities are systemic thinking, strategic thinking and the interpersonal skills required for research and creation in a multidisciplinary team all the while taking into account ecologic points of view as well as instilling into the creative process the needs of future generations and society as a whole.
The activities of the Hub give centrality and importance to sustainable development at Bezalel through individual and group research studies, academic publications, conferences and seminars. It also spearheads collaborations with academic, civilian and business entities, on a municipal, national, regional and global level.
Head of Bezalel’s Sustainable Development Hub – Dr. Elad Persov.
elad.persov@post.bezalel.ac.il
אדריכלות נוף - תואר ראשון
The Undergraduate Program in Landscape Architecture
תואר ראשון באדריכלות נוף
برنامج اللقب الأول في هندسة المناظر الطبيعية
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With the current climate crisis, growing population density and the rising threat to our natural resources, the profession of landscape architecture is becoming ever more important in Israel and the world.
Landscape architecture deals with the planning and design of natural systems as lived environments; it integrates cultural, social, and ecological perspectives at varying scales, from public and open space systems to urban and regional design, infrastructure planning, the design of neighborhoods, and public institutions. Issues such as global warming, landscape restoration, urban forestry, storm water management, flood prevention and preservation of biological diversity have become central to the work of landscape architects and are redefining the profession.
The profession is recognized by the Registrar of Engineers and Architects in Israel.
The Undergraduate Degree Program in Landscape Architecture* is a joint program of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and the Hebrew University. It is the only program of its kind in Israel, combining landscape. Architecture, taught at the Bezalel School of Architecture, with an in-depth study of plant sciences, ecology and environment at the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment of the Hebrew University.
Through this unique collaboration, our goal is to train the next generation of designers with expertise in the fields of ecology and the environment. The joint program of Bezalel and the Hebrew University will provide students with a toolkit of design and planning skills based on ecology and natural systems. This comprehensive curriculum will prepare our graduates to deal with the increasing complexity of open space planning in the Israeli and global environment.
* The degree will be awarded conditional upon the approval of the Council for Higher Education (as is standard in new programs in the certification process).
** The opening of the program is conditional upon a minimum number of registrants.
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Architecture (B.Arch)
The Undergraduate Program in Architecture
תואר ראשון בארכיטקטורה
برنامج اللقب الأول في الهندسة المعمارية
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Bezalel’s Undergraduate Program in Architecture embraces an integrated, multi-layered and multidisciplinary approach that serves as a platform for innovation and creativity in both research and practice. It aims to prepare its students to become architects who can function as highly skilled designers, planners, researchers, curators, choreographers and leaders at home and abroad.
Most of all, it strives to provide its graduates with a broad humanistic education and a strong sense of social sensitivity, so they will become the designers of the future, acting to redefine the architect's role and responsibilities through political and social engagement.
The broad-based curriculum emphasizes design research, originality, critical deliberation and active involvement in a wide range of related fields. The undergraduate program integrates theory and practice, research and design in different contexts and dimensions. It combines a variety of courses such as the history and theory of ideas and materials, with practical tools such as art and design, drawing, construction skills, technology studies and above all the comprehensive design studio.
Alongside with acquiring this requisite knowledge, students explore issues that have a profound impact on people’s lives – urban design, environmental and landscape design, new building technologies, housing and social equality, climate change and artificial intelligence. The Department serves as a forum for open and critical discussion that seeks to challenge and influence professional norms and public debate regarding the discipline's role in designing the built and open space in Israel and around the world.
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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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2020
The Department of Visual & Material Culture is established offering a new theoretical bachelor degree. Prof. Adi Stern’s term as President is renewed.
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