The design workshop titled 'SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL', comprises about 30 students (25 local and 5 - 6 international) who participate in a workshop simultaneously in Israel (at the Bezalel campus) and India. It is an interdisciplinary workshop and we invite students from any discipline to participate. Specifically, the following disciplines; architecture, civil or mechanical engineering, interior design, product design, industrial design, urban design/ planning, visual communications/ applied arts.
The workshop based on E.F. Schumacher's economic theory, is curated jointly by Dr. Roshni Udyavar Yehuda along with Prof. Ruti Kantor, Prof. Barak Pelman and Prof. Elad Persov from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel. The main aspect of the workshop is that participants are drawn from 3 or more disciplines - viz. architecture, visual communications and industrial design (and allied fields such as interior design, urban planning, social sciences, etc.). The pedagogical aspects of this workshop were presented at the Joint Presentation at the European Academy of Design Conference, Rome, April 2017 and was subsequently published by Taylor & Francis. The full paper is available here 'PBL 2.0 Interdisciplinary multicultural transformative sustainable education for design students'. It is based on case studies of communities identified in India and Israel.
