Jerusalem Design Week returns

Opening night on Thursday will include musical and interactive performances. Designers will welcome their audience to experience, in real time, what happens when sound sensors are connected to a working pottery wheel, participate in an endless loop created by an Austro-Italian artist, musician and dancer, receive custom-made shoes in 15 minutes, witness a robot grow a structure from the ground and many more exciting surprises.

Highlights include, a performative project by Italian artist Aldo Giannotti will question time and repetition. The artist’s diagrammatic style will envelop Hansen House, alongside an ongoing performance that incorporates music and dance. Clean Motion, curated by Takeshi Yamamura, Natalia Sanz, Arieh Rosen and Noam Levinger, is an exhibition that explores cleaning as part of Japanese culture and the tools used in Japanese cleaning rituals. Istanbul-based design collective Piknik will create real-time illustrations in Hansen House, using its signature electric blue style. Works by Piknik will address the question of time, with content built on both random and planned conversations.

In its fifth year, the “Matchmaker” project is spearheaded by designer Daniel Nahmias. For its “third age” edition, the project will once again connect local contemporary designers and Jerusalem-based artisans, with a focus on the elderly. Working together, older craftspeople and younger designers will create new objects and stories.

An exhibition curated by designer Shahar Kedem, will show both new works and antiquities. In partnership with the Antiquities Authority, the exhibition will explore the connection between archaeological findings and the stories we weave around them.