Dr. Adi Sela Wiener is a registered architect specializing in Cultural Heritage and Heritage Conservation. She is a Lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, teaching in the School of Architecture and the Department of Visual and Material Culture. Dr. Sela Wiener serves as the Academic Coordinator for the Master's Program in Urban Design and its Heritage and Conservation Track, and is a member of the UNESCO Chair in Urban Design and Conservation Studies. Her expertise focuses on urban heritage and the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach, central themes of both her Master’s and Ph.D. research. She also specializes in cultural routes, a topic on which she has published several papers.

Dr. Sela Wiener holds a B.Arch., a Diploma in Built Heritage Conservation, a Master of Art, and a Ph.D. Currently, she consults for the Israel Planning Administration, Holon Municipality, and the Ministry of Heritage. Previously, she served as the Conservation Policy Coordinator for the Israel Antiquities Authority, where she led the writing of the Charter on Ethics of Heritage Conservation in Israel (2016). She is the Chairperson (voluntary) of the Cultural Routes Scientific Committee for ICOMOS Israel.

Prof. Senan Abdelqader is a practicing architect and urban planner, founder and owner of Senan Architects (SA), which he established in 1995 in Herzeliya, in Jerusalem in 2004, and in 2014 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa.
Through working on numerous private projects and other public ones, that try to influence and are influenced by social and political variables, Senan has created a public platform where the process of planning is considered to be a collective act and a space for civil practices.
During his practice in SA, Senan started teaching at Tel-Aviv University in 1998; he then founded the “in-formal” research unit in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 2006, giving the possibility to architecture students to critically experiment a space where formality and informality are tangled
Senan has participated in various local and international architectural Biennales and exhibitions, among which, the São Paulo Biennale in Brazil in 2007 where he published his book “Architecture of (in)Dependency”, in which he introduces the possibility of transforming the rural life that the Palestinians live, into a contemporary urban life. 
In 2018 he established the Institute for the Study of Arab Culture in Visual Arts, Design and Architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. 

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