Jerusalem Design Week is Hansen's House main annual event, happening now for the 13th time and will take place between September 26-19, 2024 at Hansen House Jerusalem and in other locations around the city, and will include dozens of exhibitions, installations, events and unique projects brought to life by dozens of designers from Israel and the world.
Jerusalem Design Week 2024 main theme will be around "The Ark" whose biblical story unfolds a terrible disaster that originates from the evils of the diseases attributed to man. Alongside this, it is also a story about creation, about architectural work and the human responsibility to collect and preserve, which is also the one that saves, redeems and inspires hope.
For one week, the interior and exterior spaces of Hansen House will be decorated with dozens of installations, performances and shows, exhibitions and projects presented by all design disciplines, most of the exhibitions will be presented for the first time, among them:
The "Vault" exhibition presents collections as capsules that have been collected by designers into new syntaxes, these offer a new interpretation to the questions of preserving material culture
The "Lodge" is an exhibition that hosts academic design projects and research in textiles, fashion, architecture and visual communication that will offer temporary travel spaces; Designer and entrepreneur Neil Cohen's "Con" brand will host an emergency pop-up shop
The Haifa street art collective BROKEN FINGAZ in a work that oscillates between hope and despair that will offer visitors to send greeting cards to near and far.
This year the "Design Week" events and exhibitions will also be displayed outside the borders of Hansen House based on unique collaborations with various cultural institutions aounrd Jerusalem. For this one-time project, the Red bus tour company will take the visitors on a daily route that starts around the city and ends at Hansen House. Enjoy events and exhibitions at the follwing cultural venus around the city: the National Library, the Israel Museum, the Islam Art Museum, the Distillery, the Factory Dojo, the Yellow Submarine, the Caron Theater, the Asylum Gallery, the Beita Gallery, Your own studio, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and more.
