Makers of
the Future

— Prof. Yael Moria
Landscape architect, urban planning and building specialist and curator Prof. Yael Moria is head of the Department of Interior, Building & Environment Design at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art since 2014. For the past fifteen years she has taught at leading academic institutions in Israel, including Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv University, the Open University, and the Technion, where she served as an associate professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning until 2014. Moria is a co-founding partner of Moria-Sekely Landscape & Architecture Ltd., which is responsible, among other things, for the renovation of Ibn Gabirol Street, the Atarim Square complex, and Gordon Swimming Pool in Tel Aviv, the rehabilitation of the Hiriya site, and future planning for urban spaces in Beersheba. She is currently engaged in the renovation of the historical Dizengoff Square in the heart of Tel Aviv. Alongside her professional activities, Moria has curated numerous exhibitions in her field of expertise, including »Back to the Sea« in the Israeli pavilion at the 2004 Architecture Biennale in Venice, the Bat Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism, and the »In the Public Domain: A Tribute to Tel Aviv Municipal Gardener Avraham Karavan« exhibition in the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

— Hila Cohen-Schneiderman
Curator Hila Cohen-Schneiderman is specializing in site-specific and research-based art projects. In her work she studies the relations between artists, art, and the public domain. Cohen-Schneiderman is the head curator of MoBY: Bat-Yam museums. From 2016–2017 She was the curator of Liebling Project – an artist residency program in collaboration with the Tel Aviv municipal department of preservation. From 2011–2014 she was a co-curator at CAiR – Program for artists’ residencies in municipal departments. From 2012–2016, she worked as a curator at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, and from 2010–2011, acted as chief curator of the Spaceship Gallery at Hayarkon 70 social complex, Tel-Aviv. She is a graduate of the »Revivim: Honors Program for The Training of Jewish Studies Teachers« and holds a M.A. in Hebrew Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is currently a lecturer at the Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem and Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art.

— Eran Eizenhamer
Eran Eizenhamer is an urban designer and curator. Since 2016 he has served as the director of the educational program at the White City Center in Tel Aviv – an interdisciplinary program in architecture, design, and the arts that explores the issue of living in the city. In his writing, Eizenhamer examines the city and everyday life in it as a poetic space as well as a physical space, the impact of the place on the relations of those living in it, form-content relations in the space and their examination through art. The last exhibition he curated, Architecture and Everyday Life, focused on the aesthetics of everyday life in relation to contemporary culture.

— Oded Kutok
Architect and urban planner Oded Kutok is faculty member at Shenkar’s Department of Interior Building & Environment Design. Kutok is an interdisciplinary professional who specializes in planning and design aspects of future technological paradigm shifts. His works range from national master plans, through policy, local urban design schemes to applicative research. Kutok is also involved in combined spatial and future transportation design as he heads the Israeli national transportation infrastructure master plan planning team, facilitating a state task force for urban and regional planning and design preparation for autonomous vehicle usage and co leading a strategic sustainable transportation plan for Tel-Aviv city.

— Sebastian Schott
Since 2013 Sebastian Schott is an academic associate at the Faculty of Innovative Spatial Concepts and Digital Design at Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. He is a practicing architect since 2004. Sebastian is dealing with architectural projects from concept to realization in all scales with a specific interest in conceptual, process driven digital workflow. In order to archive this he and his studio sesa. which he established in 2012 uses digital technologies from parametric design to augmented reality tools on a daily basis. Designing with and within space essential for the studio and triggers him a lot. Sebastian graduated from Staedelschule State Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt with a Postgraduate Master of Arts in Advanced Architectural Design (2006) after having received a Diploma in Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Holzminden (2004). Besides his work as an Academic Associate at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design Sebastian got Guest Professorships at the University of Applied Sciences in Trier (2012–13) and Biberach (2016–17).

— Daniel Altman
Daniel is project coordinator at Shenkar Students Union, chairperson & co-founder of Dots – Shenkar Entrepreneurship Club and member of the European Students Union Executive Committee. He is studying in the master program Industrial Engineering & Management.

— Tobias Hönow
Tobias holds a B.A. in Visual Communication from the University of Applied Science Düsseldorf and is a freelance graphic designer since 2014. He has worked for several clients such as the Volksbühne Düsseldorf, NRW Forum, Deutscher Bundestag and others. At the moment he is studying at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design and is tutor at the Institute for Book Design and Media Development. Lately he was nominated for the German Design Award 2019.

— Volker Menke
He got a degree at Civil Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Detmold in 1999 and from 1999–2000 he was a scientific assistant at the Labor für Bauinformatik (Laboratory Computer Science for Civil Engineering). Since 2000 he is teaching at the architecture department (CAD Lab for Architecture) at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design.

— Aaron Schirrmann
Architect (AiP) Aaron Schirrmann is member of Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V. and partner of Studio Malta. He graduated at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design in 2017 and worked as skilled cabinetmaker in the years 2006–2011. Absolved projects since 2011 oscillate between participative workshop formats, public discurs and production oriented output in any scale.

— Karin Schulte
Karin studied interior design at the University of Applied Sciences Detmold and works since 25 years as academic associate at the so called Weißenhof-Institute – situated in-between the departments of architecture and design at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. In 2011 she coordinated the 250th anniversary of the Academy with many exhibitions, events and publications. Besides her work at the Stuttgart Academy she had a Guest Professorship at the University Hannover in 2001–2002, published eight trade-fair-design-yearbooks and is from the beginning jury member of the Designer’s Saturday in Langenthal (CH). Since April 2017 she is a member of the rectorate.