The Shenkar community congratulates professor Jonathan Ventura, who has been chosen as director of the Unit for History and Philosophy of Art, Design and Technology.

Professor Jonathan Ventura is a design anthropologist specializing in social and healthcare design. Ventura completed a PhD in applied design anthropology through a joint program by the Department of Anthropology at Hebrew University and the Department of Industrial Design at Bezalel. He then went on to complete a post-doctorate in social design at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art in London.

He is a senior lecturer at the Department of Inclusive Design at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem, serves as a research fellow at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, and teaches in the master's degree in design program at Shenkar. He specializes in applied design anthropology, social and medical design, and the crossroads between the practice, theory and history of design.

Professor Ventura will replace professor Yanai Toister – artist, researcher and lecturer in the School of Multidisciplinary Art, who has served as the director of the unit since 2017.

The best of luck from all of us at Shenkar!