David Behar
Academic background
Mundi Lab Founder (PhD, MSc, BFA, BSc)
Research interests
_ Community-based Public Space Surveillance (CPSS): This research challenge questions of visibility, responsibility of performance and data, community participation and social interactions within the way public space is disciplined.
_ Urban redevelopment processes in historical parts of towns and the question of how to deal with the existing local communities and in what ways to include them in the large surrounding processes.
– Memory in the post-monument age: How to find ways to shed light into the unique history of a place, and how to craft a unique expressive and communicative language that addresses the contemporary phenomena of memory.
– Sound in the Public Arena: Sound as a material of research within the context of everyday life, within a wide cultural-political perspective of place making.
Keywords
Urban Interaction Design, Surveillance, Gentrification, Memory, public arena, public space sound
Contact information
e-mail: davidbe@technion.ac.il
website: www.davidbehar.info
Publications
– M.Sc. Thesis: “Preparation and optoelectronic characterization of electrochemically deposited epitaxial semiconductor quantum dots” (1997). Supervisors: Prof. Gary Hodes and Prof. Israel Rubinstein.
– PhD Thesis: “Light in The Museum of Art “ (2009). Supervisors: Prof. Micha Levin and Prof. Guedi Capeluto.
Refereed papers in professional journals:
1. D. Behar, G. Hodes, I. Rubinstein and H. Cohen; “Elctrodeposition of CdS Quantum Dots and their Optoelectronic characterization by Photo-electrochemical and Scanning probe spectroscopy”; Superlattices and Microstructures, Vol 25, No. 4, pp. 601-613, 1999.
2. D. Behar, M. Levin and G. Capeluto, “Light restoration proposal for Ein Harod Museum”, Architectural Science Review, Volume 56, Issue 3, pp. 1-15, 2013. Republished is Architectural Science Review, Special Edition: Exploring Architectural Science in the Context of Cultural Sustainability, Volume 58, Issue 4, 2015.
Refereed book chapters:
4. D. Behar, “Light, Latitude 32 and Modernism”, in: How do you say Modernism in Hebrew Ed. M. Levin and O. Hailbruner. Resling Pub., Israel. pp. 71-80, 2010.
5. D. Behar, “A site specific public sculpture proposal for the Campo in the Ghetto Vecchio, Venice”, in :Processing Projects 2011, Ed. R. M. Efrem, Eventi Arte Venezia Pub., Italy, pp. 18-23, 2011.
Books & special issues:
6. D. Behar, (Ed.), Invisible Structura, Gloucester University, UK., 2011 (Project Catalogue).
7. D. Behar (Ed.), Invisible Structura of Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester University, UK., 2013 (Book).
8. Guest editor of Special Edition “Exploring Architectural Science in the Context of Cultural Sustainability”, Journal of Architectural Science Review 59.1, 2016.
Refereed papers in conference proceedings
9. D. Behar, G. Capeluto, M. Levin, “Light in the art exhibition space”, Architecture and Phenomenology International Conference, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 2007.
10. D. Behar, “The human body’s context and experience in “Invisible Structura”, a site-specific and time-specific performance, Gloucester Cathedral”, Time, Space & the Body International Conference, Mansfield College, Oxford. 2014
11. D. Behar, “Alternative thinking about public space surveillance phenomena, a proposal for a `full community involvement and participation in decision making and acting”, City as a Service Conference, Palermo, Italy, 2015.
12. D. Behar, “Let’s Make and Play Surveillance”, alternative thinking about public space surveillance considering community involvement and participation in decision making and acting, Surveillance and Society Bi-annual conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2016.
Other publications
13. D. Behar; “Natural Light in Art Museum’s exhibition space”, Perspectiva Journal, No. 6, pp. 17- 18. 2009.
Ronen Eidelman
Academic background
2016 – today: Ph.D. Candidate, Technion – Mundi lab
2011-2013 Fellow, The Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University
2006-2008 Master of Fine Arts, program for Public Art at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany.
1994-1998 Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Graphic Design, Vital: The Tel Aviv Center for Design Studies
Current Research
Exploring how we can use the technology of surveillance systems that will keep the systems and the data it creates in the hand of the public. I will work with local community groups who initiate the installment of surveillance systems in the public sphere in their neighborhood. The first part of the research will use qualitative research mythology such as interviews and observations to learn the need of the group understanding why they desire surveillance in their community. In the second part, through action based research and participatory action research (PAR), I will create tools and surveillance system that will hopefully answer the security need of the community but will also leave the control of the systems in their hands.
Keywords
Urban Interaction Design, Surveillance, Art in public space, the public sphere, activism, participation
Contact information
e-mail: ronene@gmail.com
website: http://www.roneneidelman.com
facebook: Ronen Eidelman
Selected Writing
– “Personal Security”, Mafteakh: Lexical Review of Political Thought, 2011 3: In Hebrew
– Plan B for Zionism “Medinat Weimar”, Dissonant Memories Fragmented Present. Charlotte Misselwitz, Cornelia Siebeck (eds.) Berlin, Transcript Books, 2009.
– Artist who love to hate the wall, art practices and the security barrier in Palestine, Theorizing Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas and Potentialities “Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex, Race”, New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009
– Public Response to Works of Art, Learning mind : experience into art. Mary Jane Jacob; Jacquelynn Baas (eds.) Berkley, University of California Press, Fall 2009
– “Pipi, Poo, Hitler, Auschwitz, Shoa and Nazi symbolism in contemporary Israeli Art “ Wonderyears – New Reflections on the Shoah in Israel, NGBK, Berlin.
– “On the Possibility of Criticism Today“ Bezalel Journal of Visual and Material Culture , Issue # 2, June 2015, Jerusalem.
– Co-Editor in cheif – Erev Rav – art and cultural journal www.erev-rav.com
– Dozens of reviews and opinion pieces in Hebrew for Erev-Rav, and Maarav, art and culture online journals.
Ori Carmely
Academic background
2016 – Master student. Mundi Lad.
BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art
Research interests
* Playful Interventions – The use of play in socially engaged art and design projects.
* Subversive Participation – Participatory projects as frame-works of resistance.
Keywords
Play, participatory Art, participatory design, Social, community,
Contact information
e-mail: ori_carmely@yahoo.com
website: http://oricarmely.tumblr.com/
facebook: ori carmely
Noam Brokman
Academic background
2015: Joined MUNDI lab
2013 –Present: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel – Studies towards a Master of Science in Industrial Design
2003 –2008: Bezelel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Israel – Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture
2007: Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy – Student exchange program
Research interests
Communicating knowledge through minor interventions in urban space.
The connection between architecture and society.
Urban renewal and gentrification.
Computerized fabrication
Keywords
Architecture, product design, urbanity
Contact information
e-mail: noambrokman@gmail.com
website: www.noambrokman.com
facebook: Noam Brokman
Elena McCarthy
Academic background
2015: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel – semester exchange & member of MUNDI lab project team
2011-Present: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain – B.S. Industrial Design
Research objectives
2015: help define the MUNDI lab design language
Research interests
Creating 1:1 working prototypes
Human-centered design
Keywords
Product design
Prototyping
Contact information
e-mail: emccruiz@gmail.com
website: www.idemr.com