10 December 2025 (exhibition opening) – 31 January 2026 | in two key locations in Jerusalem.
Nurturing, Dwelling, Moving and Generating Framework
The exhibition Jerusalem Divan Urbanism: 100 Ideas for Dialogue offers a platform for dialogue through architecture, urban design, and humanitarian action in
contexts of crisis and conflict. The projects engage with the diversity, complexity, and inequality of Jerusalem and the Levant.
The exhibition presents prototypical case studies within four key themes: NURTURING, DWELLING, MOVING, and GENERATING as forms of designing urban imaginaries. These sub-chapters explore the interconnected dynamic processes, methods, pilot projects and tools that contribute to global transformation and potential for change in aspects of our everyday lives: what we eat and how we nurture the environment (NURTURING), how we build and dwell (DWELLING), how we move (MOVING), what we generate and how we can re-generate interrupted material cycles (GENERATING); presented on a global, regional, and local scale.
The work presented here offers a framework for a new design agenda, providing a crucial set of relations, thoughts, concrete materials, devices, and information. This agenda will augment design as a key to the quality of life, approaching Earth as a whole and imagining possible alternative futures.
Our call is inseparable from design thinking, connecting all disciplines and schools of thought, placing culture, art, architecture, and urban design alongside science, technology, and politics. The 9th edition of the 100 Ideas exhibition in Jerusalem will be presented in two venues in Jerusalem at two different time periods, featuring 50 Ideas at Bezalel‘s main campus and 50 Ideas at a gallery in East Jerusalem. Together, these two locations form one space of dialogue – both conceptual and physical. This platform brings together international examples from around the globe in dialogue with the Jerusalem case, where imagining a common ground of coexistence is at the centre. The exhibition aims to reveal the unique urban conditions of Jerusalem, while exposing the cultural forces currently defining and shaping the everyday life of the people of Jerusalem, their built and natural environment.
While many of us continue to grieve, to ache, and to be uprooted, this exhibition calls for a reimagining of Jerusalem and the broader region, through culture and
innovative acts of imagination and creativity. Through these new perspectives, we hope to open a space of possibilities for an awakening of act through culture and humanity.
Curatorial Team
Prof. Arch. Hubert Klumpner, Dr. Arch. Michael Walczak,
Dr. Rami Nasrallah, Prof. Arch. Els Verbakel and Arch. Yssaf Ohana