Doing Good | Bezalel-led Emergency Initiatives
עושים/ות משהו טוב | יוזמות בשעת חירום
أعمال خيرية | مبادرات طلابية من بتسلئيل للمساعدة في وضع الطوارئ
Teaching Center
The Art & Design Teaching Center
המרכז להוראת אמנות ועיצוב
مركز تدريس الفنون والتصميم
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Bezalel’s Art and Design Teaching Center
Informed by Bezalel’s unique teaching and learning needs and characteristics, the Academy’s Art and Design Teaching Center was planned to create a professional and continuous foundation for the development of teaching at the Academy. Much like art and design, the Center considers teaching to be a creative, dynamic, reflective and knowledge-based practice. The Center encourages the development of teaching and learning processes, while leading innovative initiatives within Bezalel and in collaboration with various Israeli and international academic institutions.
An independent team in the Bezalel ecosystem, the Center works closely with the Academy’s academic and administrative units with the belief that the formulation of sustainable teaching requires a holistic, multidisciplinary, creative and open approach. Through its members – who are themselves lecturers in Bezalel departments – the Center is involved in all aspects of teaching and learning in the Academy, systematically examining the challenges various academic units face and responding to emerging needs.
The Center works in three corresponding and complementary spheres:
- Teaching development – as a framework for the formulation of teaching tools, ideas and skill for lecturers
- Teaching management – as a framework for the professional development of academic directors in academic training, teaching and learning evaluation; curricula construction and evaluation; and academic leadership
- Education research – as a framework for the facilitation and support of teaching and learning research, allowing lecturers to systematically examine various teaching methods with the aim of developing new practices.
Bezalel is a learning community whose different partners – and primarily faculty members and students – engage in an ongoing exploration of pedagogies and in shaping diverse, varied and new learning experiences. The Center wishes to involve as many stakeholders as possible in the research and development of teaching and learning at the Academy and share the knowledge, tools and ideas formulated within it with as wide an audience as possible.
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Dean of Students Office
Dean of Students
דקנאט הסטודנטים והסטודנטיות
مكتب عميد الطلاب
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Dear Students,
We, the staff of the Dean of Students Office, are here personally for each and every student in order to facilitate meaningful learning and a safe environment for academic success.
We are available to you and invite each and every student to approach us at any time.
Shelly Hershko,
Dean of Students and the staff of the Dean’s Office
The Dean of Students Office is the main body in charge of supporting Bezalel’s students academically, personally, financially, socially and culturally. The staff of the Dean’s Office strives to enable every student to fulfill his or her greatest personal and academic potential, and is available and accessible to the variety of needs of the students.
The Dean’s Office works to create supportive, encouraging and diversified frameworks. It aspires to instill an empowering and inclusive academic and social atmosphere for groups from different cultural backgrounds and works to promote and develop interactions between the academia and the community, encouraging students to go beyond the Bezalel walls to work with diverse communities through ongoing projects and courses integrating social action.
The Dean’s Office guides students from pre-admission through graduation, aiding them amongst other things to adjust to Academy life, assuring they will receive equal opportunities, minimizing dropouts, maximizing each student’s ability to fulfill their potential throughout the course of their studies and equipping them with tools to facilitate their future path following graduation.
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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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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.
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Research & Innovation Authority - about
Research & Innovation Authority
רשות המחקר והחדשנות
مكتب الأبحاث والابتكار
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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.
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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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Ben-Zvi is succeeded by Yaakov Steinhardt, followed by Yerahmiel Schechter, Yitzhak Aschheim and Felix Darnell.
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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