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Nirit is an artist, designer and researcher doing her PhD at the EPSRC-funded CDT in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (iGGi), based at the 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.

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 has an MA in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art and a B.Des from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem. 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.


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:
Design Methods for Accessing the Pluriverse
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.

Experience as a transformational practice
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).

Forging new narratives
Ben-Meir, Nirit Binyamini, Laura Dudek, Tomica, and Arthur Wilson. "Forging new narratives." Visual Communication 21, no. 3 (2022): 437-450.

Navigating Wicked Futures Through More-Than-Human Perspectives: Experiments in design education
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." (2022).


Selected Exhibitions:
Reciprocal Stories: Moss & Moths, Holdrons Arcade, Copeland Park, London, May 2022
The Urban Field Manifesto,
Liebling House, Jaffa-Tel Aviv, Nov-Dec 2022
Green Grads at Planted
, London Design Week, Samsung KX King’s Cross, London, September, 2021
Mutuality in the Biosphere (exhibition & workshops) collaboration with Liina Lember and Collective Matter, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Slough, July 2021
Beep Beep, Menier Gallery, London, July 2021
The Art Spaceship, V.Art, online, February 2021
X-cavations,
The Crypt Gallery, London, December 2019
490 Canes, TLV Artists House, Jaffa-Tel Aviv, June, 2018
Table of Content, The Edmond de Rothschild Center, Jaffa-Tel Aviv, April, 2018
Combination, Hansen House, Jerusalem Design Week, Jerusalem, May, 2016
Design Awards Exhibition - Ministry of Culture, Petach-Tikwa Museum of Art, June, 2011
Book Design, The Farm Gallery, Holon, October, 2011
Sharet Award Exhibition, Tel Aviv University Gallery, July, 2007

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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