סוציולוגיה עירונית וערים חכמות (ער)

נתונים לשינוי: כיצד סוציולוגיה עירונית יישומית יכולה להוביל את המפנה החברתי בעולם הערים החכמות?

The aim of the lecture is to present new ways to mainstream social planning within the realm of smart cities. This will be accomplished by using innovative technology – a smart visual theatre – as a means for better understanding spatial-social challenges. I claim that advanced visualization technologies, creates opportunities to enrich our toolbox and to critically address social challenges such as insecurity, poverty, housing crisis ect. Our Lab, Smart social strategy lab, is theatre uses a dynamic 3D model (known as Digital Twin) that supports data driven policy simulation as a means of decision making utilised by leaders or in process of public participation.  Inspired by the idea of the digital sand-box we propose a new prototype for urban policy formulation that employs geovisualization and geoanalytical techniques in order to create Social Topographies.

Meirav Aharon-Gutman is an Urban Sociologist, a faculty member at the department of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion and the PI of the Smart Social Strategy Lab. Dr Aharon-Gutman is an Acting member of the National Council for Planning and Building.