Design Theory

Dr. Lee Weinberg is a senior lecturer at Shenkar College of Engineering Design and Art and an associate researcher and head of curatorial studies programme at the University of Haifa. Born in Haifa, Israel she spent her childhood in Belgium. Completed her first degree in Art Practice: Sculpture and the three-dimensional space in Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London. Completed a further BA in French Literature at the University of Haifa. In 2005 Weinberg embarked on a curatorial career at the Haifa Museum of Contemporary art. In 2012, Weinberg completed her diploma in Teaching and Management in Higher Education as part of her capacity as a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2014 Weinberg completed PHD in Creative Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her thesis Curating Immateriality: In Search for Spaces of the Curatorial, proposed new theories for curatorial practice that could embrace the vast changes that the profession is seeing with the advent of digital technology and computer science.

Dr. Michalle Gal is a senior lecturer in the Cultural Studies Unit, Shenkar. Her main fields of publications and research include aesthetics and the philosophy of art and design, the philosophy of language, and visual culture. Dr. Gal is active in the international community for aesthetics, co-edits volumes on aesthetics and the study of culture and art and design, organized international research groups and conferences, and appeared in many. She is the author of "Aestheticism: deep formalism and the emergence of modernist aesthetics" (2015).

Dr. Pablo Utin is a film scholar and film critic specializing in Israeli Cinema, South Korean Cinema, Latin American Cinema, and The Short Film. He received his M.A. degree in media and communication at E.G.S. (European Graduate School) in Saas Fee, Switzerland, and his PhD at Tel-Aviv University. He is the author of the books: "New Israeli Cinema" (2008), "Lessons in Cinema" (2016) and "A Requiem for Peace: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Israeli Cinema." Pablo's other academic interests revolve around the relationship between design, cinema and media archaeology.

Dr. Jonathan Ventura is a design anthropologist, researching the histories of design and their implications in social and political discourses. He is a research fellow at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art, London. He specializes in applied anthropology, design anthropology, and social and medical design methodologies and theories.