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The Circle

The Circle – Designing New Realities

The exhibition invites visitors to reconsider the systems that shape everyday life and explore how we might produce, build, consume and live differently. It presents nature as a source of knowledge and innovation, and design as a tool for creating sustainable and regenerative systems.

Spanning five exhibition spaces, it brings together dozens of projects from Israel and around the world across industrial design, fashion, visual communication and architecture, alongside climate-tech developments and projects created with the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Technion and Shenkar.

The Lower Gallery, named after Shulamit Katzman, explores how we can learn from and design with natural systems. Works include a 3D-printed earth pavilion, a garment made from roots, algae-based textiles and a light installation inspired by sunlight filtering through trees.

The Upper Gallery focuses on circularity in everyday life, from food and renewable energy production to extending product lifespans and returning materials to further cycles of use. It also presents critical and speculative design proposals.

The Sea–Land Design Lab examines the relationship between life on land and ocean pollution through waste retrieved from the Red Sea, plastic alternatives and pollution-reduction initiatives. At its center is an eight-meter wooden whale shark sculpture by Amnon Zilber, surrounded by an interactive installation simulating microplastics.

The Museum’s peripheral corridor presents Disposable Lives, examining the contrast between the brief use of disposable products and their long existence as waste, alongside traditional and contemporary alternatives.

The Dr. Abraham Margalit Gallery presents Olga Stadnuk’s Pulse Now, an interactive installation combining the visitor’s heart rate with real-time astronomical and geophysical data to create a dynamic audiovisual environment.

Circular principles also shape the exhibition design itself. Its structures, texts and catalogue were planned accordingly, while some works grow, disintegrate or respond to their environment, making the exhibition itself a dynamic and evolving system.

Designers and creators participating in the exhibition:
Agustin Otegui, Diego Mata, Axel Gomez-Ortigoza (NOS Design), Ori Shany, Aya Letzter, Elon Satat Kombor, Itai Raveh, Álvaro Catalán de Ocón in collaboration with GAN Rugs, Alon Segal, Amnon Zilber, Angelika Seeschaaf-Veres, Anna Kochergina, Asaf Yuz (Ginato), Erez Nevi Pana, Meydan Levy and Esti Brantz (ANINA – Culinary Art), Bettina Schwalm, Bill Anders, Gilad Rozenkoff, Dana Cohen, Daniela Rojas Levy, Daniel Daam-Rossi, Dror Tamir (Holy Locust, Hargol Food Tech), Studio Ba’alot Melacha (Anat Glazer and Doron Shay), Zena Holloway, Jorge Álvarez, Yuval Ivri, Yulia Smilansky, Yoni Pushett, Yelena Belyaeva, Lauren DiCioccio, Lila Agozi, Maya Arazi, Muhammad Shareef, Mitchell Joachim (Terreform ONE), Merav Gazit, Mika Enriquez, Naoto Fukasawa, Nivi Tamir, Nir Meiri, Nimrod Jack Eliezer, Oki Sato (Nendo), Mischer Traxler Studio, Steve Evans, Oded Friedland, Ofer Assaf (MTRL Lab), Ezri Tarazi (Tarazi Studio), Atar Brosh, Idan Borulya, Amit Giladi, Inbar Erez, Eran Ivri, Peter Opsvik for Stokke, Peng Xiao-Xian, Koby Barhad, Carolyn Raff Studio, Ramon Zerem, Renana Krebs, Shaul Cohen, Shahar Kedem, Shira Orr, Shiri Algor, Shelly Boneh, Shelly Satat Kombor, Tair Elmor, Tamara Efrat

PADLab: Michal Pauzner, Oded Kutok, Olga Stadnuk, Efrat Duchan, Maria Merfeld, Nir Jacob Younessi, Nirit Binyamini Ben-Meir, Atalya Ben-Haim, Roni Yeheskel, Nofar Toren. 

Companies and organizations participating in the exhibition:
Ajax & Aero, AllMatters, Algaeing, Aromashoppe Products, Axiology, Baby Koala, Balena, Bite, Blueland, City Transformer, Cookplay, Dixie Cup, ecoBirdy, EcoTensil, Einhorn, Ethique Beauty, Fairphone, Fiberdom, Frederick Weeks Wilcox, Good Start Packaging, Half Magic, HiBAR, HIRO, Huppy, Huskee, Incredible Eats, Kai, KitePride, Litter 4 Tokens, Majoriti, McDonald’s, MVRDV, Notpla, OGT – ONE GOOD THING, OrganiCup, P. Lorillard Company, Petit Pli, POLYBION, SodaStream, Spare Eat, Stanley, Takeaway Packaging, Tapari, The Ocean Cleanup, The Original New York Coffee Cup, The Sustainable Agave Company, TOMGROW TECH, Tony’s Chocolonely, Vegaware, Vollebak, WASARA, Watergen, Wild, World Centric, Zero Waste Store, Zalul Environmental Association, the Society for the Protection of Nature and the Nature Reserves Authority, Shachar Group Ltd.