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PADLab:
Post Anthropocentric
Design Lab


The design laboratory for the post Anthropocene in Shenkar enables individuals and groups to internalize nature’s perspective, imagine new possibilities for nature during and after the climate crisis, decode the meanings of these possibilities and communicate them to the public, educators, experts, and decision-makers.


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Shenkar - Engineering. Design. Art.

PADLab:
Post Anthropocentric
Design Lab


The design laboratory for the post Anthropocene in Shankar enables individuals and groups to internalize nature’s perspective, imagine new possibilities for nature during and after the climate crisis, decode the meanings of these possibilities and communicate them to the public, education systems, experts, and decision-makers.


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Shenkar - Engineering. Design. Art.

People

Michal Pauzner
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Michal is a designer, researcher, and educator. Currently serving as the Head of the Center for Teaching Excellence and holding a senior faculty position at Shankar College, she actively leads various projects and initiatives that merge the realms of design, pedagogy, ecology and technology. With her extensive background, Michal has honed her skills in developing effective and inspiring methodologies and creating impactful learning experiences. Notably, her research focuses on harnessing the transformative power of design to facilitate social, environmental and systemic changes.

Architect Oded Kutok 
Co-Founder and Executive Director

Architect, planner, and multidisciplinary artist, London School of Economics graduate, founding director of ‘The office of Interdisciplinary Planning’, and senior lecturer at Shenkar. Oded specializes in the intersections between his multiple areas of expertise:
  • Developing and implementing methodologies for “thinking about the unknown future” and “public dreaming”. His initiatives include The Utopia Workshop research team, the dream archive (in preparation) and PADLab.
  • Research and writing about ways to get spaces ready for the greatest revolutions of the 21st century. Among other endeavors, Oded has been developing for state agencies models for the Autonomous Neighborhood and the Augmented City.
  • Planning and designing on a national, regional and local scales: Oded has led and continues to lead many programs of varying scopes, including Tel-Aviv's Future Business District Policy Plan, the Petah Tikva City Center Action Plan, the Rishon LeZion Urban Center Spatial Policy Plan, climate intervention plans for several cities in the south of Israel, the National Master Plan for Land Transport, and the Tel Aviv Sustainable Transportation Strategic Plan.
  • Lecturing on planning, design and design thinking.
  • Art and curation, varied visual media, including recently co-curating the ‘Nahal Taninim’ exhibition at the Jerusalem Design Week and presenting a work at ‘Dischensus’, a group exhibition at Tel Aviv museum of art.
  • Consulting for the public sector including the Israeli National Planning Administration, Israeli Ministry of Housing and Tel Aviv municipality.
  • Public activity: Oded was a member of the national joint academic and professional venture 'Israel 100', the Palestinian-Israeli planners joint working group “Between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan,” the public steering committee for the Lod development project, the Liebling Program research and action group, and other initiatives.
Olga Stadnuk
Project Manager and
Design-Science Integrator
Graduated from Shenkar College of Engineering, Design, and Art and the International Program for Curatorial Studies in 2021. Awarded the Azrieli Prize for Outstanding Project in the same year. Former exchange student at the Academy of Design in Eindhoven and intern at the Center for Design Research in Shenkar. Currently works as a user experience designer and tutor at Shenkar's Department of Interior Building and Environmental Design. Participated in the "Go for Broke" exhibition during Jerusalem Design Week 2022. A member of the Collective Reaction Time, with exhibitions at both Eindhoven and Jerusalem Design Weeks in 2022 and Design Museum in Hulon (2023). Designed for Studio MA in the "Urban Field Manifesto'' exhibition at the Liebling House in Tel Aviv in 2022 and showcased at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Dresden as part of the "School of the Untold" program by Forma Fantasma in 2022.

Nirit Binyamini Ben-Meir
Research Fellow
Nirit is an artist, designer and researcher doing her PhD at the EPSRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence, based at the Queen Mary University of London. She is an Associate Lecturer in Information Experience Design Program at the Royal College of Art, London.
Her work explores the interconnection between society, technology, and ecology. Nirit’s main research interests are around More-Than-Human Interactions and the integration of living organisms into digital interactions. She investigates how these hybrid interactions may influence people's attitudes towards ecological stewardship and their perceived accountability.

Architect Ginosar Wolf-Hansel
Research Fellow
Ginosar is an architect specializing in urban planning. Her practice stems from a focus on urban density, and her experience in the public and private sectors has led her to oversee a series of public commercial and residential plans, alongside her implementation of design policies and urban master plans as team lead. Wolf-Hansel is also engaged in research and exhibitions of contemporary design, and her interest in the relation between sound and physical space has led her to compose original music. Recent projects she has participated in include Cloud to Ground, the Israeli Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale di Architettura, and Nahal Taninim, a curated project for Jerusalem Design Week 2023. Wolf-Hansel is a faculty member of Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, in the Department of Interior Building & Environment Design, and has instructed at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, in the Department of Architecture and the Department of Art History & Theory (2016-19). In 2016, Wolf-Hansel was a contender for The David Azrieli Architecture Student Prize, and her work Mixscale is included in the permanent display at the Israel Planning Administration ever since. Wolf-Hansel holds a B.Arch. from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (2016, Cum Laude).




With the support of Shenkar’s International School
With the support of Shenkars' International School