Dror

NYCxDESIGN is New York City's inaugural citywide event to showcase and promote design of all disciplines. Dror will be giving a tour of WeCross beginning at 6pm, explaining projects and concepts along the way. We will end the tour with a happy hour at the WeCross space!

Friday, May 17th
175 Varick St., 8th Floor (entrance on Charlton St.)
6pm-7:45pm
RSVP: http://nycxdesign.splashthat.com

IDSA NY invites you to the Inspiration Lounge series hosted by WeCross on Wednesday, April, 24th 2013. The Inspiration Lounge is a forum to hear inspirational viewpoints and work. Each speaker comes equipped with insights from their own unique process and experiences. The Inspiration Lounge is a tool for cross pollinating ideas between all facets of design and applying design thinking into all industries.

Dror will speak about the complexities of running a multidisciplinary design practice. What attracts clients to a firm which designs everything from chairs to islands? Dror will explore why the studio does what it does, and what he believes is the future of design.

Doors open at 6:30pm followed by complimentary drinks. Discussion starts promptly at 7:00pm. Space is limited so RSVP today to expedite the security process upon entry. Attendees must be 21+. Seating is first come first serve.

REGISTER & RSVP here

Check out some recent press on the Next Wave Exhibition at the Washington DC International Design Festival, curated and produced by Douglas Burton Apartment Zero. Dror products featured in the exhibition include the Dror for Tumi collection, Rosethal’s Vase of Phases, and the Volume.MGX lamp by Materialise.

Photo credit: Morgan Howarth

The Dror for Tumi International Expandable Carry-On has just received the Red Dot Award for Product Design, while the tote-/backpack was named "Best Travel Bag" in Travel & Leisure's 2013 Design Awards. We are honored by this recognition!

In 2011, Dror was a Semi-Finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. It was a rewarding experience to participate in this competition, and we encourage others to apply! A winning solution will receive $100,000, and entrants will all be in the running for additional support from a growing group of partners. Read about what you can win here. This year’s deadline is April 12th. More info on how to apply here.

Dror was invited to participate in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts In America. The interview is currently being transcribed and will be available here, among countless other fascinating conversations. The Archives of American Art is the world's largest and most widely used resource dedicated to collecting and preserving the papers and primary records of the visual arts in America.
Learn more at www.aaa.si.edu.

Dror will be speaking on multidisciplinary design at India's leading international design platform. The India Design Forum (IDF) was created by the Coimbatore Centre for Contemporary Art (CoCCA) to bring masters in the fields of design to the designers of the future in India. IDF is India’s leading international design platform and IDF 2013 is bringing top architects, interior designers, product designers and more to speak during the two day conference March 15th-16th, 2013 at the NCPA in Mumbai.

A century after the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed; Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan presents the Canal Istanbul project and offers to re-visit the map of the city. One billion cubic meter of soil may be carved out of the main land in order to create the canal. Turkish developer, Mister Serdar Inan, proposes to reconstitute the soil to create an island off the shore of Istanbul and a home for a new community. Mister Inan commissions New York based designer Dror Benshetrit to draw his vision for the project; one that blends innovative design ideas, state of the art technology and cultural legacy with inspirations from the work of chief Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan.

Like the Nurai Island in 2008, this project came to Dror as the most-unexpected chance to investigate the idea of the living environment at a scale his mind had never touched before. Dror chose to look at the intimidating project as an opportunity to think about urban design and the life of a community. He spearheaded a reflection group to explore ideas. The team of experts included the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Buro Happold, Shoji Sadao from Fuller, Sadao & Zung Architects. Six months of rich interdisciplinary dialogs have allowed him to draw a radical urban design vision that aims to make the island a home for a new community with the highest quality of life and a positive environmental impact. Dror's vision for HavvAda is one that raises question rather than one that intends to bring answers.

The vision unveiled in Istanbul on September 29, results from Dror's fascination for structure and spatial geometry. With HavvAda, he stretches physics principals that he has long investigated such as the Quadror geometry. He offers to revisit concepts and ideas for urban environment, such as urban design theories, including the Garden City by Ebenezer Howard and studies of Buckminster Fuller's legacy in structural engineering. Today, Dror has drawn a landscape that will keep adapting to the dynamics of the site.

Read more here.