LEARNING FROM JERUSALEM

Conflict, Negotiation and the Architecture of the City


“LEARNING FROM JERUSALEM – Conflict, Negotiation and the Architecture of the City” is a unique and innovative semester programme, held between March–June 2015, conducted in English, designed by the MUrbDes Graduate Programme in Urban Design at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, one of the most fascinating cities in the world.

The Bezalel Academy has been active in the city for more than one hundred years and places great importance on theoretical and applied research in the fields of design, art and architecture. Bezalel acts as a cultural centre where praxis and theory truly interact, and where the theory of art praxis is being built.

The Urban Design programme, housed in the beautiful and historically important Hansen Campus, near the city centre, is known for its critical, integrative and interdisciplinary nature. It builds on knowledge-based design projects, with the objective of enriching the quality of the environment in cities through innovative design. The programme focuses on a theoretical analysis of the spatial structure that forms the city. Situated in the city of Jerusalem, the multifaceted environment provides a living laboratory for diversified urban subjects, from high-level conservation, through the rehabilitation of the inner city to renewal and new development on the outskirts of the city. These uniquely-Jerusalem phenomena weave together an unusual, seemingly unequalled diversity, of ethnic, religious and cultural populations.

Website: www.bezalel.ac.il/en/academics/studyabroad/learnfromj-m/