Experience

Technical University of Munich

• Germany
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Visiting Lecturer

  • Nov 2021 - Present



Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

• Israel
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Sep 2022 - Present



Israel Institue of Technology

• Haifa Area, Israel

• PhD Candidate

  • Oct 2017 - Dec 2021

  Researching Adaptive Urban Surfaces and the role technology can play in enhancing urban spaces. Researching Adaptive Urban Surfaces and the role technology can play in enhancing urban spaces.



Lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

• Lecturer

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2021

  http://learningfromjerusalem.bezalel.ac.il/#jf-news http://learningfromjerusalem.bezalel.ac.il/#jf-news



Harvard University Graduate School of Design

• United States
• Architecture and Planning
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Loeb Fellow

  • Aug 2012 - Dec 2021

  http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/#/academic-programs/loeb-fellowship/current-fellows.html http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/#/academic-programs/loeb-fellowship/current-fellows.html



SAYA/ Design Design Group Ltd.

• Tel Aviv

• Director and co-founder

  • 2006 - Dec 2021

  SAYA/Design for Change seeks to impact through architecture and planing and use design as a global problem solving tool. The firm established the notion of "Resolution Planning"- the use of design for aiding conflict resolution processes has served Israeli-Palestinian leaders in past negotiations, and are often used to brief top officials around the world. See ARCHITACTICS- an exhibition dedicated to SAYA's work, and to the Role of architecture in Conflict Resolution: http://www.sayarch.com/architactics-the-role-and-responsibility-of-architects-in-conflict-resolution/2004/ Recent press: FOREIGN POLICY , Sep-Oct 2014, "Diplomacy by design" by Nate Berg, pp. 66-71 HAARETZ, May 28th, 2014, Front page article (print and online editions) – “Revealed: What a Partitioned Jerusalem would look like”, by Nir Hasson LE MONDE, Culture section, August 22nd,2013, Dessine-moi une autre Jérusalem by Hélène Jaffiol The SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, August 20th, 2013, by Yochi Dreazen “Can Architecture Help Solve the Israeli Palestinian Dispute?” ARCHDAILY- on ARCHITACTICS- see article on July 30th, 2013 HAARETZ- “The Secret to Peace in the Middle East, at an Architectural Expo” (English version/Hebrew version), by Keshet Rosenblum, Galleria Supplement, Haaretz, July 25th, 2013 DOMUS Magazine, a profile about SAYA- “Activist Architecture“- by Tamar Shafrir, June 2013 (English/Italian). The NEW YORKER- “Blessed Are the Map Makers”- pieace by Ken Shulman, May 3rd, 2013 Show less



Harvard Law School

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Fellow- Design Thinking

  • Aug 2013 - Aug 2014

  Leading the seminar series- "Designing a Yes"- On the contribution of creative thinking to negotiations. Heading a special project with the Harvard Business School on applying Design thinking to policy issues. Leading the seminar series- "Designing a Yes"- On the contribution of creative thinking to negotiations. Heading a special project with the Harvard Business School on applying Design thinking to policy issues.



Harvard University

• Loeb Fellow

  • Aug 2012 - Aug 2013

  http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/karen-bar-sinai.html http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/karen-bar-sinai.html