SMART SOCIAL STRATEGY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Research Fellow, Urban & Regional Planning - Technion
- Urban Planner
Job Titles:
- Research Fellow, Urban Safety in a Transitional Era
Dr. Meirav Aharon Gutman is an urban sociologist, a faculty member in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion. An acting member of the National Planning and Building Council, and the academic chair of the Technion's Social Hub.
Her research interests include the development of innovative urban planning models designed to mainstream social considerations at the process of the decision-making in the Town Planning realm. Apart from that, Meirav deal with crime in cities, arts in cities, and ethnicity and immigration. Meirav published in leading journals in her field, guides students and teaches basic and advanced social planning courses in the Architecture and Urban Planning track at the Technion.
Job Titles:
- Performance Research
- Research Fellow, Performance Research and Data Art
Weiner is a maker and researcher of performance and political theory, specialising in the application of methodologies from theatre and performance in social research. In his first postdoctoral position at the Queen Mary University of London, Weiner worked with Dr James Eastwood to develop a gallery space as an engaging site for sharing and accumulation of community-based knowledge in research on histories of race and racialisation. He received his PhD from the Royal Holloway University of London, where his project explored the epistemologies of drag performance both as a phenomenological metaphor and as a research methodology of landscape and architecture. His MA project at Goldsmiths College studies dramaturgies of participation in performance. Weiner's work as a drag performer, actor, director, writer, and dramaturg features globally in various theatres, festivals, and performance venues.
Yossef Ravid is an experienced architect with a multidisciplinary academic and professional background, promoting models, analysis and technologies that bind together social fabric and the urban built environment. Currently, I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion supported by the Gutwirth Prize for academic excellence distinction. Her Ph.D. research is an applied science to facilitate social and civic aspects of City Digital Twin and encode social innovation and Sociotechnical imaginaries. she received her Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch) from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem (2013) and Master of Research (MRes) from the Royal College of Art London (2018) and was awarded a "Clore Bezalel-RCA leadership" for an outstanding graduate student.