BEZALEL SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE | URBANTHINKTANK_NEXT | ETH ZURICH CHAIR OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
"Jerusalem Divan Urbanism: 100 Ideas for Dialogue" offers a platform for dialogue through architecture, urban design, and humanitarian action in contexts of crisis and conflict. The projects engage with the diversity, complexity, and inequality of Jerusalem and the Levant.
The exhibition presents prototypical case studies within four key themes: NURTURING, DWELLING, MOVING, and GENERATING as forms of designing urban imaginaries. These sub-chapters explore the interconnected dynamic processes, methods, pilot projects and tools that contribute to global transformation and potential for change in aspects of our everyday lives: what we eat and how we nurture the environment (NURTURING), how we build and dwell (DWELLING), how we move (MOVING), what we generate and how we can re-generate interrupted material cycles (GENERATING); presented on a global, regional, and local scale.
The work presented here offers a framework for a new design agenda, providing a crucial set of relations, thoughts, concrete materials, devices, and information. This agenda will augment design as a key to the quality of life, approaching Earth as a whole and imagine possible alternative futures.
Our call is inseparable from design thinking, connecting all disciplines and schools of thought, placing culture, art, architecture, and urban design alongside science, technology, and politics.
The 9th edition of the 100 Ideas exhibition in Jerusalem will be presented in two venues in Jerusalem at two different time periods, featuring 50 Ideas at Bezalel's main campus and 50 Ideas at a gallery in East Jerusalem. Together, these two locations form one space of dialogue - both conceptual and physical. This platform brings together international examples from around the globe in dialogue with the Jerusalem case, where imagining a common ground of coexistence is at the center. The exhibition aims to reveal the unique urban conditions of Jerusalem, while exposing the cultural forces currently defining and shaping the everyday life of the people of Jerusalem, their built and natural environment.
While many of us continue to grieve, to ache, and to be uprooted, this exhibition calls for a reimagining of Jerusalem and the broader region, through culture and innovative acts of imagination and creativity. Through these new perspectives, we hope to open a space of possibilities for an awakening of act through culture and humanity.
Curatorial team:Arch. Hubert Klumpner, Arch. Michael Walczak, Dr. Rami Nasrallah, Prof. Arch. Els Verbakel, Arch. Yssaf Ohana.
Opening Event
Exhibition Opening Event
Wednesday, December 10, 16:30 – 19:30 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Zmora Street 1, Jerusalem
17:30 – 18:00 | Welcome and opening words
Arch. Lyat Brix Etgar, Vice-President
18:00 - 18:45 | Opening Lectures
Prof. Arch. Hubert Klumpner, Dr. Arch. Michael Walczak, Urbanthinktank_next
ETH Zurich Chair of Architecture and Urban Design
Dr. Rami Nasrallah, Associate Professor (Hon.) University College London and Founder of the Regional Institute for Sustainable Development- East Jerusalem.
Prof. Arch. Els Verbakel, Head of the School of Architecture, Bezalel
18:45 - 19:15 | Short Lectures
Moderated by Yssaf Ohana, School of Architecture, Bezalel
Jerusalem from the Ground Up (projects from the exhibition):
Arch. Aliel Kaye and Arch. Deborah Pinto Fadeda
DY-Commonplanning
Berabim Landscape Architecture
Rachel Wienner Architects and Waadia Weinstein Architects
19:15 - 20:00 | Exhibition Opening (Lobby and Courtyard)
