Technological developments are created with the promise to disrupt the known fields, to bring markets and entire industries forward and to change the future of humanity for the better. Technology surrounds us, merges with man and shapes him and there for by 2020 the term has almost lost its meaning.
With this in mind - in the technology and design track,we try to understand what is “technology” as a promise for a better future, or as a creative response to human action.
The designer mediates between the technological and the everyday life and gives the technology a shape and meaning in order to make it accessible. The role of designers is to imagine, to use intuition, to establish it, to be critical and creative in order to allow a person to dictate the desired modes of interaction. For us, technology is a tool and expression of the accumulated knowledge of human society - and in the track we allow each student to engage with the materials that interests them, and encourage them to imagine and act to create change..
The track offers collaborations with leading companies and start-ups, exceptional academic and artistic collaborations -
Collaboration with the Departments of Art and Industrial Engineering and Management from Ben Gurion University on the topic of robotics
Ongoing collaboration with Amit Zoran's laboratory at the Hebrew University on the topic of power and technology
Research-design collaborations with the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo dealing with biotechnology and the transportation of the future
Collaborates with Intel in search of possible applications for generative models.
Design & Technology
The technological space reinvents almost every aspect in our life - agriculture and communication, relationships and education, transportation and health - it changes the social texture.
INNEROOM
Maya Etstein
Shell'y
Hagar Arad
Thermal Haptic Feedback in Experiencing Digital Reality
Aalaa' Bakri
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The Elements of Self-Assembly
Michal Zagagi
Mindflow
Maya Zakai
Farm Far Away
Nitsan Hoorgin
Continuity of Relationships
Daniel Hizkiyahu
Abstract You
Ben Lev
open face
Tal Nisim
Shifting - The Climate Adaptation Project
Naomi Slaney
UN_APATHY MOVEMENT
Bili Regev
Modified Self
Tom Reznikov
Greeting from the Head of the track, shlomi Azulay
We find ourselves in the midst of an unusual time. Most of us are confused by this strange reality that is forced upon us. As we witness big and small systems collapsing, we watch our social and democratic structures shake, and establishments, companies and businesses shut down one after the other. We might be witnessing the crumbling of beliefs and paradigms. The belief in science, in the free market, the belief in a stable world, the hope that the universe can self-heal, have all crumbled. Moreover, it seems that the infrastructures established by modern society are exposed as outdated and ridiculous; the education system, the health system, transportation system, and so on.
Alongside these changes, our position as designers takes on new meaning. Maybe this difficult time provides an enormous opportunity, a chance to rebuild and redesign the infrastructures, we as a society rely on. This opportunity only comes up for those who experienced a mass destruction, destruction 2.0.
I am eager to see this period pass, and look forward to seeing you design the future.