Tuesday, 18th June 

Hour Speaker Topic
09:00-09:30 Arrival, registration, refreshments
09:30-09:45 Welcome greetings by the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning -
Dean, Prof. Yasha Grobman and Conference Chair Prof. Ezri Tarazi
09:45-10:30 Plenum keynote lecture
Prof. Kalevi Ekman (FI)
Passion Based Learning
10:30-11:30 Plenum session - Design as Hacker - Chair: Prof. Aaron Sprecher
10:30-10:45 Tom Shaked (IL) Autonomous Robotic Stone Dressing
10:45-11:00 Isabella Molloy (NZ) Designed Deposition
11:00-11:15 Denisa Reshef Kera (ES) Lithopia: Engaging Stakeholders in Blockchain Futures
11:15-11:30 Offri Lotan (IL) Re-Design the Modern Surfboard
11:30:11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:30 Plenum session - Design as Protector - Chair: Haim Parnas
11:45-12:00 Ofer Berman (IL) Digital Tabular Coral
12:00-12:15 Bianca Herlo (DE) Co-Designing Public and Political Deliberation
12:15-12:30 Romi Mikulinsky, Alon Shikar (IL) D-Mars - Design Research Out of this World
12:30-13:45 Lunch Break
13:45-14:00 Welcome greetings by the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning -
Dean, Prof. Yasha Grobman
14:00-14:45 Plenum keynote lecture:
Prof. Barry Katz (US)
Redesigning Design
14:45 - 15:45 Plenum session - Design as Visualizer - Chair  Prof. Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman
14:45-15:00 Ute Hilgers-Yilmaz (DE) Complementary Alternative Medicine
15:00-15:15 Merav Perez, Matan Zohar (IL) Exploring Parametric Typography in Augmented Reality
15:15-15:30 Arielle Blonder, Shira Shoval (IL) Composite Design: 1+1=3
15:30-15:45 Marine Zorea (IL\JP) Sonic Mapping of Everyday Interactions at the Elderly Home
15:45:16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Plenum session - Design as Leader - Chair Prof. Gabriela Goldschmidt
16:00-16:15 Safi Hefetz (IL) The Designer, As a Technology Strategist
16:15-16:30 Tami Warshavski (IL) The Future is Creative
16:30-16:45 Raz Elias (IL) Flex AR Case
16:45-17:00 Wendy Ju (US) Addressing Cross-Cultural Differences in Design

 Wednesday, 19th June 

Hour Speaker Topic
09:00-09:30 Gathering
9:30-10:15 Plenum keynote lecture: Prof. Gesche Joost (DE) Digital Society: The Role of Design in Transformation
10:15-11:15 Plenum session - Design as Visualizer - Chair: Dr. David Behar
10:15:10:30 Liron Lavi Turkenich (IL) Aravrit: One Script, Two Languages
10:30-10:45 Itay Niv (IL\US) Reading Children’s Books with Semantic Similarity
10:45-11:00 Avishag Shemesh (IL) How does Geometry of Space Affect our Emotions
11:00-11:15 Kartikeya Date (IN\IL) An Approach to Designing Archives in The Digital Age
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:45 Plenum session - Design as Healer - Chair: Dr. Daniel Metcalfe
11:30-11:45 Noam Attias (IL) Mycelium-based Bio-composites in Industrial Design
11:45:-12:00 Alessia Buffagni (IT) Smart Clothing for Fall Prevention in Older Adults
12:00-12:15 Alexander Geht (IL) Anatomic Mass Customization and Assistive Technology
12:15-12:30 Michal Greenberg Abrahami (IL) Sensory-Diagnostic Tool for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
12:30-12:45 Francesca Toso (IT)  Re-thinking the Design of Rehabilitative Devices
12:45-13:45 Lunch Break
13:45-14:45 Plenum session - Design as Healer - Chair: Prof. Efrat Eizenberg
13:45-14:00 Yaniv Glozman (IL) Is the iPhone a Work of Art?
14:00-14:15 Ezra Ozery (IL) The Gamification of Physical Therapy in Virtual Reality
14:15-14:30 Deepshikha (IN) Digital Crafts for Non-Verbal Self-Expression
14:30-14:45 Ezri Tarazi (IL) Prehospital Digital Wearable Combat Casualty System
14:45-15:00 Yonatan Assouline (IL) Designing Medical Vibrator
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:00 Plenum session - Design as Leader - Chair Dr. David Goss
15:15-15:30 Tamar Yehezkel (IL) Knowledge Sharing: Empowering Future Experts
15:30-15:45 Asaf Cohen (IL) Video-based Emergency Communication Protocol
15:45-16:00 Philip Meier (DE) Value Capture Mechanisms in Platform-Orchestrated Networks
16:0-16:15 David Behar (IL) Community Surveillance and Mass Surveillance
16:15-16:30 Closing Remarks
Chair Prof. Ezri Tarazi (IL)
The Paradox of Design Studies in an Institute of Technology

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