Doing Good | Bezalel-led Emergency Initiatives
עושים/ות משהו טוב | יוזמות בשעת חירום
أعمال خيرية | مبادرات طلابية من بتسلئيل للمساعدة في وضع الطوارئ
2020
The Department of Visual & Material Culture is established offering a new theoretical bachelor degree. Prof. Adi Stern’s term as President is renewed.
Screen-Based Arts (B.F.A)
Department of Screen-Based Arts
המחלקה לאמנויות המסך
قسم فنون الشاشة
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Students in the Department of Screen-Based Arts have a unique and marvelous opportunity to create new worlds, breath life into them through motion and choreography and fill them with substance through a storyline. Animation and video artists can break loose from narrative and convert the camera into a distinctive tool that can become a flexible and clever writing and drawing implement to express passions, thoughts and ideas or just document and tell a story. They can do all this by simply using a pencil and paper, by moving objects in space or by utilizing the newest, state-of-the-art digital technologies and 3D software.
The Department teaches classical 2D, stop motion, 3D animation, video art, documentary and experimental film making – as well as new and interactive media programs, such as augmented and virtual reality. It offers students the rare opportunity to choose from a wide variety of traditional techniques, cutting-edge tools and future technologies – and any combination of them.
In the Department, students learn to become independent, professional and multidisciplinary creators who possess the skills and desire to enhance and innovate in their artistic field. The comprehensive curriculum helps students develop a critical outlook and individual vocabulary. As they hone their craft, they begin to transcend language to generate bold statements, touching upon social, political, personal and cultural subjects that are pertinent to the world – many times breaking through the barriers between art, movie-making, animation and new medias to develop a sharp and personal message.
As Israel’s most comprehensive animation and experimental cinematography degree program, the Department is considered “the start-up nation of animation.” Bezalel’s visual artists are known and recognized worldwide for their ability to convey their thoughts, beliefs and inspirations and communicate their message with a powerful impact – garnering them many international awards and prizes, some of them the most prestigious in the field.
Jewelry and Fashion (B.F.A)
Department of Jewelry and Fashion
המחלקה לצורפות ואופנה
قسم تصميم الأزياء والمجوهرات
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The Department of Jewelry and Fashion combines a holistic approach to all creative activities relating to the body and its environment with in-depth instruction and research in techniques, materials and conceptual perspectives. The program marries formal instruction in traditional craft techniques with the study of advanced technological and ecological methods to explore research and produce articles for the human body.
The interdisciplinary curriculum offers specialized tracks in jewelry, accessories and fashion. While stressing the necessity of maintaining harmony among them, it encourages the exploration of the boundaries between the specialties and the establishment of new channels of thought. Fruitful dialogues and a collective conversation among these different fields of study provide fertile ground for imaginative and innovative design while maintaining the creative space of each.
The program provides a comprehensive learning experience that trains the next generation of designers to create original work inspired by the world around them. It guides them to draw upon local artisanship and time-honored crafts such as Judaica and embroidery, while simultaneously exposing them to the latest global expressions and styles. With the digital production revolution in full swing, the Department aims to be at the forefront of new technologies – to chart the path that incorporates cutting-edge tools and methodologies into traditional practices and techniques to create a totally new and inspiring vision.
The Department’s historic continuum of setting the standard and leading the way has garnered its students, graduates and faculty some of the most prestigious awards in Israel and around the world, in the fields of jewelry, shoes and clothing.
Industrial Design (M.Des)
Master's Program in Industrial Design (M.Des.)
התכנית לתואר שני בעיצוב תעשייתי
برنامج اللقب الثاني في التصميم الصناعي
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The Master's Degree program in Industrial Design at Bezalel is a bi-annual program which prepares exceptional designers and creators for leadership roles in the changing world. There are three tracks in the program: Design and innovation, about design and design and technology, in which students are provided with tools, knowledge and a creative educational framework.
The program is based on the assumption that designers are change agents who develop interdisciplinary connections, look at problems in a creative manner and offer original steps to solving them. To that end, the program creates opportunities to experience practical work in a variety of fields: in high-tech and industry, in the world of curatorship and art, in the world of academia and research, in the third sector and local authorities – as well as in the frame of international collaborations.
The program exposes students to deeper meanings of central processes which currently take place in the world, and enables them to translate processes of innovation and design thinking into a distinct personal language, while integrating in new product development and new services – all in a competitive and dynamic world. During studies, the program develops the ability to integrate into multidisciplinary teams and development process, to integrate systemic vision and to solidify a critical approach. In addition, the students acquire tools for acting in a global environment, for establishing connections with stakeholders and to balance between the different needs. These skills constitute central milestones in the ability of these designers to integrate and succeed in the job market and in the Israeli and global discourse.
The graduates of the program integrate in the forefront of industry and the design fields as product managers in high-tech and start-ups, as UI/UX designers in global companies such as Microsoft, Intel and more, as managers of innovation teams in local authorities and the Air Force, as directors of innovation laboratories at the Weizmann Institute and the ORT chain, as lecturers in design academies, as curators and entrepreneurs.
The program's lecturers are leading designers, artists and curators, marketing people and researchers with extensive knowledge in the fields of strategy management, product management and design, service management, interaction and game management, programming, storytelling, critical thinking, curatorship and writing.
The program has three tracks – which constitute three major fields of knowledge in the field of contemporary design:
Design and Innovation Management,
About Design, and Design and Technology.
Research & Innovation Authority - about
Research & Innovation Authority
רשות המחקר והחדשנות
مكتب الأبحاث والابتكار
Research & Innovation
Viewed through the critical lens of artists and designers, research at Bezalel is both humanistic and human-centered. It seeks to meet people where they are but also surprises, provokes, informs and inspires unconventional thinking.
Bezalel is spearheading the exploration and development of this promising field. With a fundamental openness to the unknown and the unexpected, it applies singular strategies to the investigation of a wide range of challenging problems encompassing the scientific, intellectual and social. This enables the Academy to produce innovative, useful and groundbreaking results while remaining both scholarly and imaginative.
Bezalel researchers partner with colleagues from all disciplines of inquiry using pioneering methods and tools, fueling activity that inquires, invents, frames, combines, involves and critiques in novel ways. The research and development is about, for or through art and design. It examines practical problems and theories as well as complex issues confronting humanity to provide greater insight and new approaches. It focuses on investigating significant aspects of life that influence both the individual and society, alongside the latest artistic techniques and disciplines.
Along with other areas, research at Bezalel aims to discover and adopt new materials, new technologies or new uses for them – it emphasizes new cultural ideas, from human rights or the Holocaust to issues related to social aspects of technology like human-robot interactions or new political opportunities enabled by digital diplomacy; it examines challenges presented by medical processes and accessibility as well as the global challenges of climate change. Research at Bezalel is deeply involved in the structure of smart cities and autonomous driving; it investigates and advances designed-based exploration of wide academic domains ranging from distance learning and mass communication to heritage preservation and disaster planning. Research at Bezalel is all encompassing, touching on all facets of our lives.
Bezalel guides its researchers to develop theories that inform practice and employ practices that inform theory, while understanding that in art, design and architecture, a fundamental separation between the two does not necessarily exist; that its inherent outlook is entrepreneurial and future-oriented.
The Academy’s innate strength is its ability to constantly imagine and re-imagine a better world and quickly translate these thoughts and theories into useful and practical applications and enterprises. In an ever-shifting social, technological, material and political environment, Bezalel’s investment in art and design research helps reveal new knowledge; new knowledge that leads to novel and inventive understandings of the world.
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
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.
Fine Arts (B.F.A.)
Department of Fine Arts
המחלקה לאמנות
قسم الفنون
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.
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.
Pagination