Adam Ben-Dror is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and inventor based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. His practice sits at the intersection of art, design, ecology, and informal engineering, with a focus on working resourcefully with overlooked, discarded, and everyday materials. Together with Xin Cheng, he co-runs Local Making (www.localmaking.org), a design studio and neighbourhood-scaled laboratory for resourceful living and making, which supports hands-on experimentation, skill-sharing, and community-based approaches to material reuse.

Creative projects include transforming a toy Lamborghini into a tele-presence robot that roams the city making friends, carrying a working worm farm inside a briefcase as a mobile composting system and education hub, and operating a makeshift café on wheels at climate activist events and gatherings.

Adam is a keen gardener and, alongside his studio practice, works as a composting educator with the Compost Collective, teaching practical, accessible composting methods and advocating for soil-centred approaches to food production and waste reduction. He holds a Bachelor of Design Innovation from Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington and a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts from Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland. He has also studied design and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.