Connecting Stations is a cross–ethnic, multicultural design activist team of designers, artists and educators. We create design-driven experiences that train participants to adopt diverse perspectives and enable alternative communication channels. This is our urgent response to the ongoing crisis in the Middle East and beyond. Learn more
an immersive installation, and group game for individuals from contested regions and guests
RiverViews is a design-based AI supported bridging experience that includes an art installation, an exhibition and an immersive game. It enables people from contested nations to envision together everyday life in an era of peace.
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Distribution Station is a design installation that invites participants to respond in real-time to the human disaster and environmental destruction caused by the conflict in Gaza and Israel. It focuses on wheat to disclose a common denominator between Israelis and Palestinians and confronting participants with a dilemma of choice. They may send a grain of wheat as a blessing for regeneration and growth, but to whom? Learn more / Watch a Video
Common Habitat is a design-based ecology and co-existence educational workshop (As part of PADLab Shenkar) Already hosting more than 150 young Arabs and Jews, the ongoing Common Habitat installation, game and workshop, allows participants to immerse themselves in the identities of non-human species in a safe space for navigating real-world differences and sensitive conflicts by assuming the perspectives of others. Learn more / Watch a Video
“We must urgently design to rebuild destroyed spaces for living – but just as urgently, we must design to build spaces for feeling. We should use design to build the capacity for empathy.”
For the full 1,000 Connecting Stations Design Peace Manifesto (2025):
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