WHF Israel Opening

Lidewij Edelkoort & Philip Fimmano, WHF co-founders and Keren Arazi, WHF ambassador for Israel open WHF Israel Dec 2021.
HOPE HEALING LAB - From Surviving to Thriving, WHF Israel took place on December 12th in Tel Aviv. The forum was Curated by Keren Arazi, WHF Ambassador for Israel, and co-curated with Noa Bartfeld, Gretel Scheiner & Keren Bitan Shemesh.

The diverse creative voices that make up contemporary Israel are dynamic and full of hope. Together, they are formulating a new society that shifts gears to promote collaboration, innovation and sharing. Their message is clear, blurring borders and division, overcoming adversity and making space for dialogue, sustainability and healing.

Keren Arazi
Keren Arazi is a researcher, mentor and strategist, specializing in business development for designers and creatives. She is intrigued and passionate about developing a new field she terms creativity management: recruiting managerial business tools and methods, supporting the creative community to enable it to thrive. She believes in creative leadership’s potential to manifest the new world economy of hope. Keren manages and develops designer accelerator programs at Design terminal Bat–Yam and is a regular guest lecturer at the design professional development program of the Edmond de Rothschild Center, and at the creative economy class at Shenkar College. After over a decade working in product development, business strategy, trend research, marketing and content creation for leading global commercial companies, she now uses her knowledge and experience to empower and support creatives.

Keren Bitan-Shemesh
Keren is a serial social entrepreneur and founder of the Academic Community Relations Department at Shenkar College. Keren brings over 20 years of experience in managing venture projects and collaboration between academia and the business sectors in Israel. In addition, she is a psychotherapist, lecturer, and a board member at 'Topaz - Leading Social Innovations' and volunteers with women and children in Africa. Additionally, Keren is the Head of Public Administration at the "Mirembe" project. A social enterprise focused on empowering disadvantaged women in Uganda, enabling economic independence for women through manufacturing traditional craft and art objects in collaboration with women in Israel. She is also a lecturer and mentor in a unique program for artists at Niaad University of Art and Design in Uganda.

Noa Bartfeld
Noa is a service designer, researcher, and educator with over ten years of experience in various design sectors and disciplines, both locally and internationally. She holds an MFA in Transdisciplinary Design strategies from Parsons, The New School of Design in NYC (2017), and a B.Des in Textile & Weaving Arts, and Spatial Design from Shenkar college of Engineering and Design (2010). Noa loves using her creativity, critical thinking, and design capabilities to provide user-centered, meaningful, and tangible design solutions. In doing so, she has gone beyond designing usual outputs and alternatively developing improved systemic interventions, working towards a better future. In addition, she is passionate about exploring how design can impact society and sustainability and the role of designers' responsibility in a broader context.

www.bartfeldnoa.com

@noabartf

Gretel Scheiner
An Argentina-born, curator, producer, design entrepreneur, and design researcher. She is the founder and CEO of Unicas Productions, a concept and content house specialized in experiential and sensory marketing. In addition, she is an advisory board member at ‘Inspiration International - Arts for Humanity,’ a mentor in the 'Design Terminal Bat Yam' and the Israel ambassador to ‘Food Design Nation’. Scheiner investigates the political and economic impact on design processes and believes in creating authentic relationships between brands, organizations, the environment, and communities. With more than 14 years as an experiential marketing producer in the events industry, she loves integrating curatorial perspectives, high-end content solutions, and a deep understanding of hospitality trends into everything she does.

www.unicas.co.il

@k482gre
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