The Onya Collective unites architects, designers, and activists working together to create positive spaces where people and nature meet in the city. We design innovative, space-specific interventions in addition to running community and art activism events in the urban ecology field. The group uses innovative placemaking processes to work together with communities to dream of new ways to use urban nature and agriculture as tools to improve public spaces.

 The Collective is a non-profit initiative comprised of individual projects, led by members of the Collective in cooperation with other members as well as  community volunteers. The Collective is currently an unregistered entity taking on individual projects that support our ideology and improve public spaces for everyone

 We started in 2014 in the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station and surrounding area. We believe the power of community, ecological design, and creating cities that are socially and economically inclusive. Amidst pollution and crumbling infrastructure on the social margins of the city, working with sustainable and design tools in the public sphere can offer a minimally invasive option to quickly improve a small space and empower the local community to feel connected to the spaces they live, illustrating how neglected areas can be improved together.

Mel Lidman

Mel Lidman

Journalist, atmosphere builder, community cultivator

Yoav Shafranek

Yoav Shafranek

Educator, guerilla gardener, cat whisperer

Gil Cohen

Gil Cohen

Architect, farmer without a farm, man of nature

Avigail Roubini

Avigail Roubini

Graphic designer, rewilding cultures, soul of urban permaculture

Robert Ungar

Robert Ungar

Architect and designer, movement seeder, energy renewer

Carmel Yaari

Carmel Yaari

Landscape architect, inspiring ecological diversity, wild boar advocator

Shmulik Twig

Shmulik Twig

Artivist, kinetic video maven, rainwater harvester

Smadar Ariel

Smadar Ariel

Industrial designer, public space frolicker

Dana Mor

Dana Mor

Architect and optimism illustrator, digital sprouter

Eyal Feder

Eyal Feder

City renewer, culture germinator, placemaker

Yana Freedman

Yana Freedman

Architect, photographer, street illuminator

Nadav Douani

Nadav Douani

,Photographer, South Tel Aviv renaissance man urban street swimmer

Heela Harel

Heela Harel

Artist and graphic designer, city forager, urban treasure hunter

Amir Elron

Amir Elron

Urban farmer, educator, master of plant friends

Shir Talor

Shir Talor

Ecological architect, project concoctor, unicorn

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