Dov Ganchrow (1970, USA/IL) is a product designer and associate professor in the Industrial Design Department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, from which he graduated with honors.

His interests, among others, include cultural fringes, making technologies, science-art intersections, tools, martial arts, and high-altitude trekking. These also form the foundation of contemplation of the Anthropocene as well as individual identity residing between Nature and Nurture.

Currently an independent designer, for over a decade and a half he collaborated with the late prof. Ami Drach on diverse design projects spanning the fields of medical, consumer, furniture, and museum exhibit design alongside the creation of more personal, experimental, and conceptual works.

He has shown extensively at many international venues including the MOMA, Pompidou Center, Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt, and is included in private and museum collections such as New York’s MAD Museum, the Jewish Museum NY, Israel Museum, MUDAC, and the Pompidou Center. His design works are often characterized by intelligent use and manipulation of materials and technologies, a dialogue with prehistory, the incorporation of Readymades, as well as humor.

Bibliography

• “Thinking ‘tools’; Looking at Ourselves” Proceedings for Cumulus P/References of Design conference Budapest 2024 (Hungary, 2025)  Volume 1, https://doi.org/10.63442/PZPS6059
•  “To Computational Archaeology and Back: The Round-Trip Journey of Stone Artifacts Between Physical and a Digital Existence” Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress (2024) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-024-09498-5
•  “Hand-axe landscape: scar and ridge features” The Design Science Foundation, volume 2, Tokyo, Japan (2024). https://thedesignsciencefoundation.org/en/article/667/
• Written in Stone, Ancestral Stones and Stone Stories: Reimagining Human Relationships with Stone from the Paleolithic to the Present, Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress (2024) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-024-09502-y
• “Destroying the Ordinary for the Extraordinary” Revista Además de (In addition to), number 9, 2023 (ISSN 2444-121X) Published by the National Museum of Decorative Arts (MNAD) and the Association of Friends of the MNAD, Madrid, Spain. https://doi.org/10.46255/add.2023.9.135
• “MAN MADE”  Cultures of Stone; an interdisciplinary approach to the materiality of stone, book Published by Sidestone Press, the Netherlands, 2020, pp. 203-121, Editors: Gabriel Cooney, Bernard Gilhooly, Niamh Kelly, Sol Mallia-Guest

Punch. Generate. Freak (Jerusalem Design Week 2021) (©Doron Altaratz, Dov Ganchrow, David Oppenheim, Sarit Youdelevich).

The Freedom to Create; a Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem exhibition (03/2024) (©vered Ganchrow).

[Talk4] Dov Ganchrow Lecture (12/2024) (©The design science foundation).

Knapping During the 2020 Pandemic (05/2020) (©vered Ganchrow).

V300 by Dov Ganchrow (03/2018) (©vered Ganchrow).

Hans Lemmen, Dov Ganchrow, Aron Demetz (03/2024) (©vered Ganchrow).

Keywords
Product design; speculative design; design science; martial arts; prehistoric archaeology; digital craft; high-altitude trekking