The Weizmann Institute organizes "Draw me a scientist" a national children's drawing competition in cooperation with the European Union - submission of drawings until September 12 * for the first time in the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Technion - graduate exhibition
The national children's drawing competition, of the Weizmann Institute of Science, under the title "Draw me a scientist", continues. Children from all over the country are invited to send their hand-made drawings in which they describe the figure of the scientist, or female scientist - as it appears to them. A committee consisting of scientists, artists and media persons will select the winning painting, which will be displayed at an international exhibition on behalf of the European Union that will be held in Brussels. Three more paintings will win their creators prizes.
The painting exhibition will be displayed in the rotating exhibitions pavilion in the Keller Science Garden at the Weizmann Institute of Science, which is a unique science museum operating under the dome of the sky. The exhibition's opening ceremony will take place on September 24, as part of the "Smart Even at Night" events - an evening of diverse scientific activities for children, teenagers and adults, which includes demonstrations, workshops, sessions, and face-to-face conversations with scientists. The activity "Sages also at night" is taking place for the second year, in cooperation with the European Union, in coordination with the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sports and with the participation of science and education institutions in Israel, including the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sports, the Miguel Technology Center in the Galilee, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Bloomfield Museum of Science , Jerusalem, Klor Science Garden at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Madatech - the Museum of Science, Technology and Space in Haifa, Tel Aviv University and Bar Ilan University.
The drawings, with a recommended size of A4 to A3, can be created in any style and technique, including computerized drawing, and should be sent to:
The Department of Publications and Communications at the Weizmann Institute of Science
PO Box 26
Rehovot 76100
Along with name, age and phone number.
According to the audience's request, the deadline for submitting paintings was extended until New Year's Eve, September 12.
For the first time in the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Technion - a graduate exhibition
Eighty-five projects of students in the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Technion are presented in a comprehensive exhibition, which will be open to the public until September 10, in the Technion faculty building. The exhibition is also the end of the work of the studio classes, in which the students worked during their last school year. The studio classroom is a research laboratory, which allows future architects and landscape architects to experience solving problems from the real world. At the same time, they still do not have the same limitations and requirements that they will have to deal with when they finish their studies, in the "real world".
The results are fascinating, refreshing and challenging, and they constitute the first chapter in the work of dozens of architects and future landscape architects. The works deal with questions in the Israeli and global architectural discourse: green construction, the influence of the computer, social and socio-political problems and a multitude of other important and interesting issues. "You, the students, lead the faculty in your pursuit of excellence," said the dean of the faculty, Professor Yerah Deutscher, at the opening of the exhibition. "Each and every one of you is innovative and creative. The final project expresses what you acquired and internalized during your years of study at the faculty, and from here on everything you do will be a final project."
Among the variety of works presented, there were some interesting works, such as the work of the faculty's graduate, Nitsa Amsalem-Halevi, who is in her ninth month of pregnancy, and chose to design an innovative maternity home as her final project. The project offers a new perspective on the birth environment, providing an answer to the woman's needs throughout the process, from the pregnancy planning stage to after the birth. "During the pregnancy, I toured with my husband all the maternity wards in Israel, I talked with midwives and the medical staff. I came to know that today the clinical environment does not support our natural processes in the body, but hinders them. The project is also a kind of pregnancy and birth. I still don't know which is more difficult." Nitza said with a smile.
Another interesting project of three graduates: Mittal Einstein, Yishai Breslauer and Ron Hansel dealt with the renewal of the central station in Tel Aviv. "We took care of the architectural problem - how can it be changed without destroying it? We tried to solve critical problems, such as the problem of orientation and lack of light, and at the same time we also tried to address social problems such as homeless people, drug addicts, prostitutes and the foreign worker population. We solved the problem of lack of orientation by opening the roof, so that light would enter, and also by "cutting" the building in half, so that the Neve Shanan neighborhood pedestrian walkway would pass between the buildings. The solution we found to the homeless problem is not intended to solve the problem, but to alleviate it, by building a wall, which will provide electricity points, water taps and a roof beam. Today, the central station has an infrastructure of movie theaters. We decided to use them for the purpose of establishing a cultural center for the foreign worker population", explained the recent graduates.
