ECOWEEK in conjunction with the sustainable design course in urban space of the HIT Design Faculty - and with institutions and organizations from Israel and abroad, invites you to hands-on workshops on design, environmental design and actual site intervention.

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The workshops offer fresh and creative thinking as part of tackling complex challenges facing the Israeli cities, including: population growth and the distance between housing and work in the country, and, as a result, overloaded urban infrastructures such as transportation and waste, reduction of open spaces, urban renewal and the community culture - virtual and real. All this and more, require from us as planners and designers to test innovative, ecological and sustainable design processes and to offer solutions and channels of action that will provide a quality and meaningful response to these challenges.

Against this backdrop, the ECOWEEK 2019 events invite undergraduate and graduate students in architecture, interior design, industrial design and visual communication to take an active part in the design and hands-on light construction in an actual public space at the Neot Shoshanim Community Center in Holon.

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The workshops will be held during the first week of September (1-6 /9/19) in the form of an intensive, multidisciplinary process in real projects. The workshops aim at a hands-on process of actual interventions in public space, on the one hand, and to formulate an overall proposal for further development and design of the Community Center as a whole, as well.

Participation in the workshops contributes to the student's professional and personal development, and is an opportunity to network, experience teamwork and deepen social and environmental sustainability awareness as professionals and change-agents towards creating beneficial public spaces for people.