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. Alongside her doctoral research, Nirit serves as an Associate Lecturer in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art and is a Research Fellow at PADLab - Post Anthropocene Design Lab.
With a professional background in visual communication, editorial and book design, Nirit has led workshops and delivered lectures at both public and academic venues. She has also collaborated with cultural institutions such as the South London Botanical Institution, the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, and the 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.
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
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
Systems Play: Using Experimental Art and Design Methods to Empower Systems Change 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).
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
490 Canes, TLV Artists House, 2018, Jaffa-Tel Aviv
Table of Content, The Edmond de Rothschild Center, 2018, Jaffa-Tel Aviv
Combination, Hansen House, Jerusalem Design Week, 2016, Jerusalem
Design Awards Exhibition - Ministry of Culture, 2011, Petach-Tikwa Museum of Art
Book Design, The Farm Gallery, 2011, Holon
Sharet Award Exhibition, 2007, Tel Aviv University Gallery
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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With a professional background in visual communication, editorial and book design, Nirit has led workshops and delivered lectures at both public and academic venues. She has also collaborated with cultural institutions such as the South London Botanical Institution, the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, and the 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:
Systems Play: Using Experimental Art and Design Methods to Empower Systems Change 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).
Academic Output:
DIS24 Copenhagen 2024, workshop: Design Methods for Accessing the Pluriverse - lead and facilitatorGLADHE 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
490 Canes, TLV Artists House, 2018, Jaffa-Tel Aviv
Table of Content, The Edmond de Rothschild Center, 2018, Jaffa-Tel Aviv
Combination, Hansen House, Jerusalem Design Week, 2016, Jerusalem
Design Awards Exhibition - Ministry of Culture, 2011, Petach-Tikwa Museum of Art
Book Design, The Farm Gallery, 2011, Holon
Sharet Award Exhibition, 2007, Tel Aviv University Gallery
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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