Nirit is an artist, designer and researcher. Her work explores the interconnection between society, technology, and ecology. Nirit’s main research interests are around More-Than-Human interactions and the coupling of living and digital systems. She investigates how these hybrid interactions may influence people's perceived accountability towards ecological systems and their engagement with ecological stewardship.
Nirit is doing her PhD at the EPSRC-funded CDT in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (iGGi), based at Queen Mary University of London. She is an Associate Lecturer in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art, and a Research Fellow at PADLab - Post Anthropocene Design Lab (Royal College of Art & Shenkar College of Engineering, Design & Art).
She has a professional background in visual communication, editorial and book design and in textile design.
Nirit has been running workshops and lecturers in public and academic venues and has worked with cultural institutions such as the South London Botanical Institution, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Peres Center for Peace.
Her performative installations were presented in various galleries in London and won the YouFab Global Creative Award (2021) Tokyo.
Education:
2022+ PhD, iGGi, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London.
2019-2021 MA in Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art London.
2001-2005 B.Des Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
Teaching:
2021+ Associate Lecturer at The Royal College of Art, London
2023+ Teaching at EECS, Queen Mary University of London
2015-2021 Senior Tutor at Shenkar College of Engineering. Design. Art, Ramat-Gan
2016-2019 Head of the Advancement of Teaching Unit, Shenkar College of Engineering Design & Art
2014-2018 Lecturer, The David Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv University
Awards & Scholarships:
IGGI EPSRC funded Centre for Doctoral Training Scholarship, 2022
YouFab Global Creative Award, Tokyo - Winning Finalist, 2021
a-n The Artists Information Company and Arts Council England, Bursary, 2021
Holdrons Arcade Gallery Competition Winner, Copelandparks, London, 2021
The Young V&A Museum Residency, London - Shortlisted, 2021
The Design Museum Design Researchers Residency, London - Shortlisted, 2021
The Art Spaceship Award, V.Art - Shortlisted, 2021
Royal College of Art, London Fund Bursary, 2020
Royal College of Art chancellor special event, Project nomination, 2020
Faculty Excellence in Teaching Reward, Shenkar College of Engineering Design & Art, 2018
Faculty Excellence in Teaching Reward, ShenkarCollege of Engineering Design & Art, 2017
Jerusalem Design Week, Combinanation Innovative project award, 2016
Loreber Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Shenkar College of Engineering Design & Art, 2014
Best Designer Award, Israel Ministry of Culture, 2011
Graphic Design’s New Global Generation - Laurence King Publishing, UK, 2007
Sharet Foundation Award for Excellent Student Project, Bezalel Academy Jerusalem, 2005
Publications:
2024 Design Methods for Accessing the Pluriverse
ACM Designing Interactive Systems (2024)
Zohar, Hadas, Nirit Binyamini Ben-Meir, Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa, Danielle Barrios-O’Neill, Michal Pauzner, Oded Kutok, Laura Dudek, and Erin Robinson. "Design Methods for Accessing the Pluriverse." In Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp. 417-420. 2024.
2024 Experience as a transformational practice
Innovative Practice in Higher Education 6, no. 2 (2024)
Ramirez-Figueroa, Carolina, Gian Luca Amadei, Nirit Binyamini Ben Meira, Cecilia Martin, and Adam Kaasa. "Experience as a transformational practice." Innovative Practice in Higher Education 6, no. 2 (2024).
2022 Forging new narratives
Visual Communication 21, no. 3 (2022)
Ben-Meir, Nirit Binyamini, Laura Dudek, Tomica, and Arthur Wilson. "Forging new narratives." Visual Communication 21, no. 3 (2022): 437-450.
2022 Navigating Wicked Futures Through More-Than-Human Perspectives: Experiments in design education
Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD11 Brighton, 3-16 Oct (2022)
Barrios-O’Neill, Danielle, Laura Dudek, Nirit Binyamini Ben Meir, Elena Falomo, Charlotte Jarvis, and Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa. "Navigating Wicked Futures Through More-Than-Human Perspectives: Experiments in design education." Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD11, Brighton 3-16 Oct,(2022).
Academic Output:
2024 DIS24 Copenhagen, workshop: Design Methods for Accessing the Pluriverse - lead and facilitator
2024 GLADHE UK - Workshop: The AI Art School (hosted at Royal College of Art, London) - member of organising team and facilitator
2023 ELIA Helsinki design conference, Workshop: Conflicts in Design Under Emergency - lead and facilitator
2023 GLAD symposium 2023, Gathering Ourselves, University of the Arts, London - panel speaker
2023 IGGI conference 2023 Inteligent Games Games Intelligence, Queen Mary University of London - member of
organising team and facilitator
2023 British Academy & Royal College of Art, London, Designing Resilient Futures - workshop organiser and facilitator
2023 Possible Futures Lecture Series, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design & Hansen House, Jerusalem - lecturer
2022 Museum of The Home, London, The Bed - Scars and Quilt Workshop, In collaboration with Maayan Weistaub -
organiser and facilitator
2022 RSA Summer Symposium, ‘Imagining Tomorrow Today’, The University of Reading, Reading School of Art -
speaker
Selected Exhibitions:
2022 Reciprocal Stories: Moss & Moths, Holdrons Arcade, Copeland Park, London
2022 The Urban Field Manifesto, Liebling House, Jaffa-Tel Aviv,
2021 Green Grads at Planted, London Design Week, Samsung KX King’s Cross, London
2021 Mutuality in the Biosphere (exhibition & workshops) collaboration with Liina Lember and Collective Matter,
Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Slough, UK
2021 Beep Beep, Menier Gallery, London
2021 The Art Spaceship, V.Art, online
2019 X-cavations, The Crypt Gallery, London
2018 490 Canes, TLV Artists House, Jaffa-Tel Aviv
2018 Table of Content, The Edmond de Rothschild Center, Jaffa-Tel Aviv
2016 Combination, Hansen House, Jerusalem Design Week, Jerusalem
2011 Design Awards Exhibition - Ministry of Culture, Petach-Tikwa Museum of Art
2011 Book Design, The Farm Gallery, Holon
2007 Sharet Award Exhibition, Tel Aviv University Gallery
Curation:
IED Beep Beep, Menier Gallery, Lodnon, July 2021
Design Sins, The Annual Exhibition of Visual Communication, Jaffa-Tel-Aviv, July 2019
From Objects to Print, Shenkar, Ramat-Gan, February 2016
Book-Space-Time, Sipur-Pashut, Jaffa-Tel-Aviv, June 2014
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Inflate is an experiential installation provoking against monopolism and dominance of a tiny oligarchy.
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“It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.”
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