Galit Shvo (M.Des)
Senior lecturer, Industrial Design Department
Galit Shvo is an industrial designer, design researcher and educator at the JMC inclusive design faculty. In her professional and academic life, she is engaged in product design, conceptual and speculative design and curation. Interested in the fields of semiotics and ideology aspects of design, she publishes and participates in a variety of experimental and critical design exhibitions. Holds B.DES and M.DES in Industrial design from Bezalel Academy, where she served as head of “About Design” track, M.DES ID Graduate Program (2012-2016).
“Leaving Behind” On speculative design and the role of Designers, Ventura,
Jonathan and Shvo,Galit.2024
“UNCOMFORT” Ventura, Jonathan and Shvo, Galit.2023
“I Just Cut my Finger in a Ninja Fight: The Semiotics and Hermeneutics of the Band-Aid”.
Ventura, Jonathan and Shvo, Galit. 2018.
Punctum.International journal of semiotics, 4(1): 179-201, 2018
“Interpreting Medical Design: Prosthetics, Semiotics, Hermeneutics, Freedom and Function”.
Ventura, Jonathan and Shvo, Galit. 2017. Published digitally by the Holon Design Museum.
[in Hebrew].
""Breaking the Language of Design: Semioclastics in the World of Industrial Design"".
Ventura, Jonathan and Shvo, Galit. 2016.
International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation 4(3-4): 222-233. (Taylor and Francis - Routledge)
A Hebrew version of the above article was commissioned and published by the Design Museum Holon in 2016
“From the Native’s Point of View: Eyeglasses between Medicine and Design”. Ventura, Jonathan and Shvo, Galit. 2016. In: Maya Dvash (Ed.), Overview: Eyeglasses Design. Holon: Holon Design Museum.
Joint course with MOME and EKA - as part of a course dealing with urban space, third year
BauNow- a joint international project with UDK, which brought together designers from Israel and Germany to note the 100th anniversary of Bauhaus establishment.
