LIVE DEMONSTRATION | Collaborative Rhizomatic Mapping: Unlocking the Key
Thu, May 07
|Holon Institute of Technology
Join my lecture at the "From Single Brain to Hive Brain: Collaborations in Interior Design," HIT, 7 May, 2026
Time & Location
May 07, 2026, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM GMT+1
Holon Institute of Technology, גולומב 52 אליעזר הופיין 63, Ya'akov Fichman 18, Holon, 5810201, Israel
About the event
Can a design team think together without smoothing over their differences? In this live demonstration, Dr. Ravid Rovner and a team of designers – Miryam Ben Sadoun, Einav Lavie Peled, Rinat Weinberg, and Shir Chadad – will perform a session of Collaborative Rhizomatic Mapping (CRM) centered on a deceptively simple object: The Key.
Moving beyond the "Starchitect" myth of the lone creator, the team will transform the stage into a living laboratory. As they map the key – from its physical serrations to its role in digital surveillance and social exclusion – the audience will witness:
Distributed Authorship: A hybrid team (online via Zoom and physically on-stage) negotiating a shared research landscape.
Externalizing Conflict: Watch as the map preserves "disputed causality" and contradictory interpretations, proving that productive tension is a generative asset.
The AI as Auxiliary: See AI agents being used for "atomized" data retrieval – verifying technical facts about encryption or metallurgy – while the human team retains the responsibility for meaning.
Live Synthesis: Observe how "prompt markers" bridge distant territories of the map to spark unexpected design concepts for future "access" technologies.
About the conference
The conference challenges the modern myth of the "lone creative genius" – the star architect whose personal identity becomes a brand. While the media often favors the story of the uncompromising individual, contemporary professional reality is a complex web of shared intelligence, networked workflows, and human-AI partnerships.
As part of the Design Collaborations axis, the event interrogates the shift from the autonomous creator to the collective entity. If the 20th century was defined by the singular "hand" of the designer, the 21st century is defined by distributed authorship and interdisciplinary interfaces.
Through lectures and live cases, the conference explores the power dynamics of collective work: What is the status of the author when credit is spread across dozens of participants? How do digital platforms reshape the creative voice? And most importantly, how must design education evolve to prepare the next generation for a multi-voiced professional identity?
For further details, see: https://www.hit.ac.il/events/251203575/