This bench has been designed to bring people together in a playful way. And it works! Once seated, people – even complete strangers – spontaneously start rolling sideways on the marbles, bumping against each other’s bums. Sliding across the marbles, combined with the sound of rolling glass, it’s hard not to have fun. The experience unites you with your neighbour, even when you are not moving at all. Please try it out!

Nina Farkache is an independent Design Research, Design Thinking and service design specialist with 20 years of professional experience in versatile fields and industries. She leads and conducts design research/User research and trend research for product, service and strategy development, and helps companies align their products and services with users’ needs & trends.

In addition, she works with organizations and companies on implementing a Design Thinking culture to reach innovation.

Nina brings industrial design expertise earned in the Netherlands, where she lived and worked for over 10 years. During this time she was an independent designer and innovation consultant for leading companies such as Heineken, Fiat, Leo Burnett and Droog  Design.

Inspired by her work at IDEO California, for the last 15 years, Nina has focused on Human Centered Research and Design Thinking.

She is a lecturer of “Design Thinking” and “Design Research” at Master’s Degree in Industrial Design in Bezalel, and at the M.Des design program at the Technion in the faculty of architecture and town planning.