Nirit is an artist, designer, and researcher whose work investigates the interconnection between society, ecology and technology, with a particular focus on More-Than-Human interactions and the merging of living and digital systems. She is pursuing a PhD at the EPSRC-funded Centre for Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (iGGi) at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on hybrid living-digital interactions, exploring how they may influence people's engagement with ecological care, and contribute to the shaping of domestic cultures of plant and ecological care.
Nirit is a Tutor in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art and is a Research Fellow at PADLab - Post Anthropocene Design Lab.
Nirit has been collaborating with academic and cultural institutions including the South London Botanical Institute, the Horniman Museum & Gardens and the Human-Cumputer-Biosphere Lab in the University of Tokyo.
Her work has been supported by the Great British Sasakawa Foundation and received international recognition, including a YouFab Global Creative Award, a Panasonic Award nomination, and Best Paper at DIS 2025.
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.
Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant for research project investigating experience design for Human-Biosphere Interaction, 2025
Best Paper Award, SIGCHI DIS25 (Design Interactive Systems), for the paper: Domestic Cultures of Plant Care: A Moss Terrarium Probe, 2025
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 chancellor special event, Project nomination, 2020
Faculty Excellence in Teaching Reward, Shenkar College of Engineering Design & Art, 2018
Jerusalem Design Week, Combinanation Innovative project award, 2016
Loreber Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Shenkar College of Engineering Design & Art, 2014
Graphic Design’s New Global Generation - Laurence King Publishing, UK, 2007
Sharet Foundation Award for Excellent Student Project, Bezalel Academy, 2005
Domestic Cultures of Plant Care: A Moss Terrarium Probe ︎BEST PAPER AWARD
Mediated ecology in Fukushima: decentralized storytelling and collaborative telepresent experience beyond the post-disaster landscape. (2026) HONG, Haoran, et al. "Mediated Ecology in Fukushima: Decentralized Storytelling and Collaborative Telepresent Experience Beyond the Post-Disaster Landscape." Frontiers in Human Dynamics 8: 1800722.
The PAD Framework: Postdigital Design Education for Post-Anthropocentric Futures (2025) Barrios-O’Neill, Danielle, Michal Pauzner, Oded Kutok, Nirit Binyamini Ben-Meir, Charlotte Jarvis, Laura Dudek, Devanshi Rungta, Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa, and Olga Stadnuk. "The PAD Framework: Postdigital Design Education for Post-Anthropocentric Futures." In Postdigital (Re) Imaginations: Critiques, Methods, and Interventions, pp. 229-243. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025.
Systems Play: Using Experimental Art and Design Methods to Empower Systems Change (2025) Barrios-O’Neill, D., Ramirez-Figueroa, C., Jarvis, C., Dudek, L., Ben-Meir, N.B., Falomo, E., Pauzner, M. and Kutok, O. (2023). “Systems Play: Using Experimental Art and Design Methods to Empower Systems Change.” [submitted, under review]
Design Methods for Accessing the PluriverseZohar, 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
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).
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.
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).
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
Academic Output:
DIS24 Copenhagen 2024, workshop: Design Methods for Accessing the Pluriverse - lead and facilitator
GLADHE UK 2024, Workshop: The AI Art School (hosted at Royal College of Art, London) - member of organising team and facilitator
ELIA Helsinki 2023, design conference, Workshop: Conflicts in Design Under Emergency - lead and facilitator
GLAD symposium 2023, Gathering Ourselves, University of the Arts, London - panel speaker
IGGI conference 2023 Inteligent Games Games Intelligence, Queen Mary University of London - member of organising team and facilitator
British Academy & Royal College of Art 2023, London, Designing Resilient Futures - workshop organiser and facilitator
Possible Futures Lecture Series 2023, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design & Hansen House, Jerusalem - lecturer
Museum of The Home 2022, London, The Bed - Scars and Quilt Workshop, In collaboration with Maayan Weistaub - organiser and facilitator
RSA Summer Symposium 2022, ‘Imagining Tomorrow Today’, The University of Reading, Reading School of Art - speaker
Reciprocal Stories: Moss & Moths, Holdrons Arcade, Copeland Park, 2022, London
The Urban Field Manifesto, Liebling House, 2022, Jaffa-Tel Aviv
YouFab Global Creative Award, 2021, Tokyo
Green Grads at Planted, London Design Week, Samsung KX King’s Cross, 2021, London
Mutuality in the Biosphere (exhibition & workshops) collaboration with Liina Lember and Collective Matter, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Slough, 2021, UK
Beep Beep, Menier Gallery, 2021, London
The Art Spaceship, V.Art, 2021, online
X-cavations, The Crypt Gallery, 2019, London
Combination, Hansen House, Jerusalem Design Week, 2016, Jerusalem
IED Beep Beep, Menier Gallery, 2021, Lodnon
Design Sins, The Annual Exhibition of Visual Communication, 2019, Jaffa-Tel-Aviv
From Objects to Print, Shenkar, 2016, Ramat-Gan
Book-Space-Time, Sipur-Pashut, 2014, Jaffa-Tel-Aviv
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Nirit is a Tutor in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art and is a Research Fellow at PADLab - Post Anthropocene Design Lab.
Nirit has been collaborating with academic and cultural institutions including the South London Botanical Institute, the Horniman Museum & Gardens and the Human-Cumputer-Biosphere Lab in the University of Tokyo.
Her work has been supported by the Great British Sasakawa Foundation and received international recognition, including a YouFab Global Creative Award, a Panasonic Award nomination, and Best Paper at DIS 2025.
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.
Awards & Scholarships:
Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant for research project investigating experience design for Human-Biosphere Interaction, 2025
Best Paper Award, SIGCHI DIS25 (Design Interactive Systems), for the paper: Domestic Cultures of Plant Care: A Moss Terrarium Probe, 2025
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 chancellor special event, Project nomination, 2020
Faculty Excellence in Teaching Reward, Shenkar College of Engineering Design & Art, 2018
Jerusalem Design Week, Combinanation Innovative project award, 2016
Loreber Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Shenkar College of Engineering Design & Art, 2014
Graphic Design’s New Global Generation - Laurence King Publishing, UK, 2007
Sharet Foundation Award for Excellent Student Project, Bezalel Academy, 2005
Publications:
Binyamini Ben Meir, N., Selby, L., Barrios-O’Neill, D., Jarvis, C., and Rungta, D. (2026) Evaluating Impact as a Distributed Ecosystem: Insights from a Coral-Themed Museum Late, in Simeone, L., Gray, C. M., Verhoeven, A., de Götzen, A., Bakırlıoğlu, Y., Zohar, H., Stead, M., and Buwert, P. (eds.), DRS2026: Edinburgh, 8–12 June, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1105
Domestic Cultures of Plant Care: A Moss Terrarium Probe ︎BEST PAPER AWARD
ACM Designing Interactive Systems (2025)
Binyamini Ben-Meir, Nirit, Patrick GT Healey, and Sebastian Deterding. "Domestic Cultures of Plant Care: A Moss Terrarium Probe." Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 2025.Mediated ecology in Fukushima: decentralized storytelling and collaborative telepresent experience beyond the post-disaster landscape. (2026) HONG, Haoran, et al. "Mediated Ecology in Fukushima: Decentralized Storytelling and Collaborative Telepresent Experience Beyond the Post-Disaster Landscape." Frontiers in Human Dynamics 8: 1800722.
The PAD Framework: Postdigital Design Education for Post-Anthropocentric Futures (2025) Barrios-O’Neill, Danielle, Michal Pauzner, Oded Kutok, Nirit Binyamini Ben-Meir, Charlotte Jarvis, Laura Dudek, Devanshi Rungta, Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa, and Olga Stadnuk. "The PAD Framework: Postdigital Design Education for Post-Anthropocentric Futures." In Postdigital (Re) Imaginations: Critiques, Methods, and Interventions, pp. 229-243. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025.
Systems Play: Using Experimental Art and Design Methods to Empower Systems Change (2025) Barrios-O’Neill, D., Ramirez-Figueroa, C., Jarvis, C., Dudek, L., Ben-Meir, N.B., Falomo, E., Pauzner, M. and Kutok, O. (2023). “Systems Play: Using Experimental Art and Design Methods to Empower Systems Change.” [submitted, under review]
Design Methods for Accessing the Pluriverse
ACM Designing Interactive Systems (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).
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.
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).
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
Academic Output:
DIS24 Copenhagen 2024, workshop: Design Methods for Accessing the Pluriverse - lead and facilitator
GLADHE UK 2024, Workshop: The AI Art School (hosted at Royal College of Art, London) - member of organising team and facilitator
ELIA Helsinki 2023, design conference, Workshop: Conflicts in Design Under Emergency - lead and facilitator
GLAD symposium 2023, Gathering Ourselves, University of the Arts, London - panel speaker
IGGI conference 2023 Inteligent Games Games Intelligence, Queen Mary University of London - member of organising team and facilitator
British Academy & Royal College of Art 2023, London, Designing Resilient Futures - workshop organiser and facilitator
Possible Futures Lecture Series 2023, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design & Hansen House, Jerusalem - lecturer
Museum of The Home 2022, London, The Bed - Scars and Quilt Workshop, In collaboration with Maayan Weistaub - organiser and facilitator
RSA Summer Symposium 2022, ‘Imagining Tomorrow Today’, The University of Reading, Reading School of Art - speaker
Selected Exhibitions:
Reciprocal Stories: Moss & Moths, Holdrons Arcade, Copeland Park, 2022, London
The Urban Field Manifesto, Liebling House, 2022, Jaffa-Tel Aviv
YouFab Global Creative Award, 2021, Tokyo
Green Grads at Planted, London Design Week, Samsung KX King’s Cross, 2021, London
Mutuality in the Biosphere (exhibition & workshops) collaboration with Liina Lember and Collective Matter, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Slough, 2021, UK
Beep Beep, Menier Gallery, 2021, London
The Art Spaceship, V.Art, 2021, online
X-cavations, The Crypt Gallery, 2019, London
Combination, Hansen House, Jerusalem Design Week, 2016, Jerusalem
Curation:
IED Beep Beep, Menier Gallery, 2021, Lodnon
Design Sins, The Annual Exhibition of Visual Communication, 2019, Jaffa-Tel-Aviv
From Objects to Print, Shenkar, 2016, Ramat-Gan
Book-Space-Time, Sipur-Pashut, 2014, Jaffa-Tel-Aviv
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Destabilised Common Grounds
A performative installation and workshop revealing the wisdom of moss colonies. It invites a deep engagement with a fascinating community that we tend to overlook - mosses. In this project, audiences influence the moss’s climate and see the impact of their actions on the moss’s condition in real-time through two large projections.
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A performative installation and workshop revealing the wisdom of moss colonies. It invites a deep engagement with a fascinating community that we tend to overlook - mosses. In this project, audiences influence the moss’s climate and see the impact of their actions on the moss’s condition in real-time through two large projections.
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Data Fossils
A speculative project imagining futuristic archaeology and alien anthropological research. Assuming a site might completely demolish and the only remnant would be digital data from photos, how might a physical restoration look like if a machine is doing an automatic translation from 2D to 3D?
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A speculative project imagining futuristic archaeology and alien anthropological research. Assuming a site might completely demolish and the only remnant would be digital data from photos, how might a physical restoration look like if a machine is doing an automatic translation from 2D to 3D?
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Inflate
An experiential installation provoking against monopolism and dominance of a tiny oligarchy.
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An experiential installation provoking against monopolism and dominance of a tiny oligarchy.
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Moss exploration
“It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.”
[Paul Klee]
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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.”
[Paul Klee]
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