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ACADEMIC DEGREES

2008-9  Postdoc      Columbia University, New York, US
2007-8  Postdoc      Hebrew university, Jerusalem, Israel
2007      PhD             Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University
2001      M. A.           Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University Magna cum laude
1998      B.A              Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University Magna cum laude

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2013 – Present Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
2011 – 2012 Adjunct  teaching associate, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
2009 – 2012 Adjunct  teaching associate New York University at TA
2009 –  2010 Adjunct, Department of Architecture, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
2005 –  2010 Adjunct, Department of Sociology, Second degree program, Ben Gurion  University in the Negev
2005 –  2007 Israel; M.Urb.Des. (Graduate program in Urban Design)
2007-2008 Adjunct, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2008-2009 Postdoc, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, New York.
2007-2008 Postdoc, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2012 Planning – Head of the department for strategic planning, Holon Municipality
2009 – 2011 Manager – The Center for Mediterranean Culture and Urbanism, Bat Yam. Establishing urban research institute for Bat Yam Municipality.                   Among the institute’s projects: educational model of urbanism and gender and city.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Spatial inequality
Advance technologies as new medium for social impact assessment (SIA)
Social planning
Urban sociology
Ethnography in cities
Crime and cities
Cities and religious
Art as a mechanism of change in cities

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Courses taught (last 3 years till today)

2014 – Social Planning– Graduate elective course, 25-45 students.
2014 – Dangerous cities, safe cities – Graduate elective course, 35 students.
2012 – Sociology for planners – Graduate Mandatory course, 30 students.
2003 – Urban Sociology for Architects 85-100 students

TECHNION ACTIVITIES

2019 Academic Head of the Technion Social Hub.

DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES

2018 Member at The faculty student prize committee
2018 Member at The admission committee (Town and Regional Planning)
2015 Member of the Hadrion organizing committee
2016-7 Academic Director of the “VizLab” Visualization Laboratory

PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2018 Acting member of the National Council for Planning and Building
2018 Master Plan for housing, sub region of Ashkelon, Ministry of Housing
2017 “Divercities, a theoretical review” – Tel Aviv Municipality
2005-12 Consultant, Israel Ministry of Defense – the relocation of the military high-tech units to the Negev. Investigation of issues concerning organizational culture and human recourses. My duty is to shape a planning policy of the technological campus and HR future policy.
2011  Research and Planning – Holon Municipality, a master plan for the elderly population (Together with Do-Et).
2009 Research and Planning – Re-planning the center of  kibbutz Kfar Hachoresh (with architects Yuval Yasky and Shmuel Groag)

ARTISTIC PROJECTS

2019

 

 Social Topography – The exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (in progress)

 
2010

 

 

 

 

2001

 “Fine Tuning: A war musical movie” 2010 David Noy (Cinemax Production) and Meirav Aharon. Sponsored by channel 1 The Israeli TV ($100,000). Presented at RAI Film Festival, Royal Anthropological Institute London (June 2011).

About the orchestra: this is a unique cultural enterprise of second generation Moroccan Jews, establish in the city of Ashdod. The logic of the enterprise was to revitalize the Andalusian music as a high culture due to the state criteria and conventions.

 

“Nobody’s Slave: The story of Palestinian work immigrants” presented at Humboldt University conference, “Identities in the Age of Modernity”, Berlin (2002)

PUBLIC PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Reviewing of grants

Since 2012  Grant review for ISF

Occasional Reviewer for Journals

Journal of Economic  and social Geography
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Theoretical Criminology
GeoForum
Israeli sociology
Urban Design International
Mobilities
Megamot
Planning Theory
Geo-Journal
Journal of Planning history
Planning theory
Theoretical criminology
Space and Culture
Cities

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

2009 – Israeli Planners Association
2013 – Israeli Sociological Association
2013 – AESOP – European Planning Association
2019 – AIS – Association for Israeli Studies.

  1. FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND HONORS
2014-2015 Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Teaching Award
2013-2014 Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Teaching Award
2007-2008 Fulbright award: Post-doc Fellowship
2005 Marie-Curie prize by the European Research Forum on Migration
and Ethnic Relations (EUROFOR).Excellence award for young researchers to present their work at series of conference that bring together academia and policy makers
2005 Women’s Group Fellowships of the Mexican Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Post-doc scholarship.
2005 Horvitz Foundation: Scholarship for outstanding Ph.D. Research in the Fields of Economy and Society. Founded in 1971 in honor of David Horowitz, former Governor of the Bank of Israel, and architect of Israel`s plan for financial assistance to developing nations, this institute encourages research on issues relating to social and economic development.
2004 The social science Dean Award: Scholarship for Outstanding PhD Students. Tel Aviv University
2004 Jonathan Shapiro Fund: Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate student (PhD)
2003 Fulbright Award: PhD Student Grant. Supporting PhD students at Israeli university travelling to the state for professional meetings.
2003 Sapir foundation: Awarding excellence grants at the field of local government
2002 The Israeli Sociological Society’s Award for outstanding graduate student thesis, presented at the Israeli Sociological Society’s Annual Conference.
2001 Heinrich Boell Fund: Scholarship for outstanding graduate student.

The Heinrich Boell Sifting has been funding projects in Israel since 1992. Funded by the German government. The Heinrich Boell Sifting is an intellectually open, civic organization The work in Israel takes place in the complex and multidimensional context of German-Jewish relations, German-Israeli relations and the Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab conflict.
2001 Jonathan Shapiro Fund: Scholarship for outstanding graduate student (M.A), The department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University

Jonathan Shapiro was the founder of the sociology department in Tel Aviv.
2000 Tami Steinmatz Research Institute for Peace Studies: Scholarship for                     outstanding graduate student. The purpose of the Center, established in 1992, is to promote systematic research and thinking on issues connected with peacemaking processes and conflict resolution.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

PhD These (Completed)

Sharon Ayalon, starting year 2015 “Staging Urbanism: The intersection of Art, space and the Public” Principle Supervisor Associate Professor Tali Alon, Dr. Meirav Aharon as Co. Supervisor. Date of Graduation: June 2019

2019 Honorary mention, Abba Elhanani Endowment Award for Excellence for the best paper award “a city for itself”
2019 Azrieli Fund Travel Grant
2016 50,000 NIS, Research Grant from the Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts
2016 150,000 NIS, President of Israel’s Grant for Scientific Excellence and Innovation

PhD Theses in progress

  1. Daphna Levine, starting year Sep 2018 Social construction of city boundaries: Organization, development and territory pre candidacy exam Principle Supervisor Assistant Prof. Meirav Aharon. Date of Graduation. (Awarded: The Dr. Etel Fiedman Memorial Fellowship from the Center for Economic and Social Research in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality).
  2. Dvora Avramzon, starting year Dec 2018 “They’re not Even in the Count” On the Relationship between Methodologies for Assessing Economic-Sociological Growth and Inequality: The Case of the Negev and the Galilee. Principle Supervisor Assistant Prof. Meirav Aharon
  3. Bat El Yosef, starting year Oct 2019 “Procecial (Process-social) Technology based platform For inclusive urban planning” Principle Supervisor Assistant Prof. Meirav Aharon

M.Sc. Theses completed

  1. Shani Noga, year of graduation “Holy cities: between centrality and peripherally.” Principle Supervisor: Dr. Meirav Aharon, Dr. Yusuf Jabareen as Co. Supervisor. Received the 2015 Israel Planners Association prize for excellent and the faculty of Architecture and town planning for outstanding students.   Work at Domus as an Urban Planner
  2. Prawer Noa, year of graduation 2016 “You want to maximize your financial gain. What about mine?”: Analysis of National Outline Plan No. 38 as a Planning Deal and its impact on the Organizing of Homeowners. Principle Supervisor: Dr. Meirav Aharon, Associate Professor Pnina Plaut as Co. Supervisor. Project Manager at Ezra and Bitzaron
  3. Feldman Miriam, year of graduation 2017. “Urban Space and Jewish Law: The Social and Spatial Manifestation of the Sukkah in Orthodox Neighborhoods in Israel.” Principle Supervisor: Dr. Meirav Aharon, Dr. Els Verbakel as Co. Supervisor. Architecture at Jerusalem Municipality
  4. Penn Nadav, 2017 . “Regional capital conversion through High-Tech: Intel-Israel case study.” Principle Supervisor: Dr. Meirav Aharon. Analyst, Socio-economic team, Reut Institute Faculty of Architecture and town planning award for outstanding students
  5. Lazimi Yamit, starting year 2014 . “New towns: Backwaters or enabling spaces? Nazareth Illit as a case study.”  Principle supervision Associate Professor Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Dr. Meirav Aharon as Co. Supervisor. Year of graduation 2017. Azrieli Award for outstanding students
  6. Shahar Yoad, 2018 . “The impact of ultra-orthodox institutions on the tipping point of Jerusalem’s changing neighborhoods.” Principle Supervisor: Dr. Meirav Aharon-Gutman. Year of graduation 2018

 M.Sc. Thesis in Progress

  1. Hadar Avniel “A military coup? On the reciprocal relations between military and civilian neighborhoods: Yavneh and Rosh Ha`ayin as case studies”. Principle Supervisor: Dr. Meirav Aharon-Gutman. Estimate year of graduation: 2020
  2. Biana Grinshpoon “Health Impact Assessment Integrated with Social Impact Assessment: Formulation of a Tailored Outline for Israel – The Case of Complementary International Airport. Principle Supervisor: Dr. Meirav Aharon-Gutman and Pnina Plaut Estimate year of graduation: 2019
  3. Rona Orovano Mizrahi “Housing Strategies among Native Born Residents of Development Towns”: The Case of the “Buyer’s Price” Program in Yeruham Principle Supervisor: Dr. Meirav Aharon-Gutman. Estimate year of graduation: 2019
  4. Yarden Diskin “Airbnb platform as an collective identity agent Analysis of the interaction between the apartment- building – neighborhood” Principle Supervisor: Dr. Meirav Aharon-Gutman. Estimate year of graduation: 2020
  5. Shai Sussman “Examining the applicability and usages of Agent Based Modeling in the urban renewal domain” Principle Supervisor: Dr. Meirav Aharon-Gutman. Estimate year of graduation: 2020
  6. Oren On “Dwelling and Working at the same Space: Socio-economic conditions and user knowledge” Principle Supervisor: Prof. Iris Aravot and Dr. Meirav Aharon-Gutman Estimate year of graduation: 2020

Sponsored long term visitors and Post-doctoral associated

Dr. Moriel Ram, 2014-2016, religion and cities. Ben Gurion University. General areas of research: Political geography, religion and urban studies.

Sharon Ayalon, 2019-20 Sociological Footprint: Enabling Community Awareness of the Social Impact of Urban Renewal Projects with Wendy Ju, Cornell Tech

Academic Guest

Prof. Daniel Monterescu, Central European University.  General areas of research: urban Anthropology, mix cities.

RESEARCH GRANTS

Submitted

2019
How can we prevent mega-neighborhoods from becoming slums? A Dynamic model as a New Medium for Social Planning.  Submitted to ISF

2019
Sociological Footprint: Enabling Community Awareness of the Social Impact of Urban Renewal Projects (Meirav Aharon Gutman, Wendy Ju, Sharon Yabo-yalon).Submitted to BSF

 

Sponsored

2019

 

 

2019

 

 

 

2018

 

2018

 Smart Social Planning: New methodology for formulating socio-spatial policy. National Insurance Institute of Israel. 1,300,000 ₪ for two years.

 

Sociological Footprint: Enabling Community Awareness of the Social Impact of Urban Renewal Projects (Meirav Aharon Gutman, Wendy Ju, Sharon Yabo-Ayalon). 75,000 $ funded by Cornell Tech.

 

Cost Action – Public value capture of increasing property values

 

Ruch Program (to support collaboration with Wendy Ju) 7000$

 
2016 Urbanism at the meeting point between Theatre, Public and Space: the city of Acre as case study. (Sharon Yabo-Ayalon. Tali Alon Mozes and Meirav Aharon Gutman) 55,000 ₪ Funded by Mifal Hapis

 
2015 “How the army as regional development engine, design the housing market in a development town in Israel: the case of Ir Habahadim and Yerucham in 3D.”

Principal Investigator 41,000 NIS for 1 year. Funded by Gazit-Glob real-Estate institution.

 
2014 “The Challenge of Capital Conversion: How and under what conditions can groups and settlements acquire and trade capital for the enhancement of regional development”. Principal Investigator (in the research team: Prof. Yehuda Kalay, Dr. Menny Malka and Arch. Yuval Yasky). 163,000 NIS for 3 years, Funded by Ministry of Science Technology and Space
 

2010-2012

  

Mediterranean Urbanism, Bottom-up Research, research group leader at the Van Leer Institute, NIS 100,000.

A multidisciplinary, bottom up exploration of current issues in urbanism in Israel in an effort to establish an Israeli school of urbanism that expresses the complexity of the urban situation in the middle east.
2010-2014 DESURBS – Designing Safer Urban Spaces”. Research team member (leader of the social investigation WP1). Prof. Mike turner, Department of Architecture Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem as Principal Investigator.  € 460,000 EU funded research project under the Seventh Framework Program.

Planning, (re)design, and (re)engineering of urban areas to make them less vulnerable and more resilient to security threats.
2009 Border Street  – Anna Lindh Foundation, EU Restore Trust, Rebuild

Bridges € 35,000.

A study of a mixed urban environment in the heart of a metropolis – case study of the border street between Bat Yam and Jaffa that embodies an ethnic conflict between Jews and Arabs in light of intensive development.

PUBLICATIONS

Theses

M.A. Thesis

“Work, land: The story of the Palestinian work migrant in Israel. Master’s Thesis,  Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University (2002). Supervisor: Haim Hazan and Adriana Kemp

PhD Thesis

“Planning and Living in the Modern National City: the limits and limitations of Israeli citizenship in 2000” . Doctoral Thesis, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Tel Aviv University (2006). Supervisor: Haim Hazan, John Comaroff and Ronen Shamir

Refereed papers in professional journals

(Graduate student are marked in italic)

English:

  1. Aharon-Gutman, M. (2009) “It will be quiet enough when we’re dead – now is the time to live: Between planning the modern city and living in it.” Planning Theory and Practice 10(2): 213-231,.
  2. Aharon-Gutman, M. (2009) The day the sun rises in the west – ethnography of a peace process.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 22(1): 131-150,.
  3. Aharon, M. (2012) “Just like democracy: ethnography of real-politic in a city of immigrants.” Journal of Levantine Studies 2(1): 71-91,.
  4. Aharon, M. (2013) “Riding the Culture Train: ethnography of a plan for social mobility through music.” Cultural Sociology, 7(4): 447-462.
  5. Aharon-Gutman, M. (2014) “The iron cage of ethnicity: Ethnic urban enclaves and the challenge of urban design.” Urban Design International, 19(2): 144-158‏.
  6. Cohen, N., & Aharon-Gutman, M. (2014) “Citizenship at work in the Israeli periphery: the case of Peri Ha’Galil.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32(4): 589-605.
  7. Cohen, N., & Aharon-Gutman, (2016) M. Labor agencies and the temporality of struggles: A comparative study in the Israeli periphery.Geoforum, 74, 98-107
  8. Shani, N., & Aharon-Gutman, M. (2017). “Living in a Holy City Is Work”: God’s Work as the Work of Urban Place. Space and Culture, 1206331217720075.‏
  9. Ram M. and Aharon-Gutman, M. (2017) “Sanctified strongholds: urban synagogues and the politics of change in contested urban environments.” Journal of Economic  and social Geography 11 JAN 2017, DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12231
  10. Aharon-Gutman, M., & Cohen, N. (2017). Refusal, circulation, refuge: young (im) mobilities in rural Israel. Social & Cultural Geography, 1-22.‏
  11. Aharon-Gutman, M., & Ram, M. (2017). Objective possibility as urban possibility: reading Max Weber in the city. Journal of Urban Design, 1-20.‏
  12. Aharon-Gutman, M. (2017). Art’s failure to generate urban renewal: Lessons from Jerusalem. Urban Studies 55, 15, 3474-3491.
  13. Yavo Ayalon, S., Aharon-Gutman, M., & Mozes, T. A. (2018). Can art breach boundaries? Segregation and hierarchy at a fringe theatre festival in the Israeli mixed city of acre. Journal of Urban Design, 1-23.‏
  14. Aharon-Gutman, M., Schaap, M., & Lederman, I. (2018). Social topography: Studying spatial inequality using a 3D regional model. Journal of Rural Studies, 62, 40-52.‏
  15. Ram M Aharon-Gutman, M. “Sacred Rhythms and Political Frequencies: Reading Lefebvre in an Urban House of Prayer”. City and Society (accepted 2018)
  16. Yavo Ayalon, S., Aharon-Gutman, M., & Mozes, T. A. A “City for itself: a peripheral mixed city’s struggle for cultural capital”. City and Community (accepted 2019)
  17. Yavo Ayalon, S., Mozes, T. A ., & Aharon-Gutman, M ” The Shape of Theatre in the City: A Theoretical and Methodological Approach for Analysing Artistic Activity in Urban Space” Journal of Urban Affairs (accepted 2019).

Hebrew:

  1. Aharon-Gutman, M. (2004) “Border people: the story of Palestinian work migrant at the Age of Oslo.” Israeli Sociology 6(2): 119-149, (Hebrew with an English abstract)
  2. Aharon-Gutman, M. (2008) “Triumph of the system: on De-mocratiziation in planned migrant city.” Israeli Sociology 9(2): 413-441, (Hebrew with an English abstract).
  3. Aharon, M.  (2010) “The iron cage of ethnicity.” Israeli Sociology 12(1): 181-210, (Hebrew with an English abstract).
  4. Aharon-Gutman, M. (2008) “Classic, Mizrachi Orchestra.” Theory and Criticism 33: 131-150, (Hebrew with an English abstract)
  5. Shani N. and Aharon- Gutman, M. (2015) “Holy city: between workplace and work of the place.” Israeli Sociology  17(1) : 57-78, (Hebrew with an English abstract)
  6. Aharon-Gutman, M. (2016) “There is no room for politic in our neighborhood: between the social and the political in a seam line neighborhood in Jerusalem.” Theory and criticism 46 (Hebrew with an English abstract)
  7. Aharon-Gutman, M. and Gutman R. (2016) “Will our voices be heard? An inside view of an environmental public struggle at the Israeli Northern Periphery Israeli Sociology 2 (accepted. Hebrew with an English abstract)
  8. Prawer Noa, Aharon-Gutman Meirav (2018) “You Want to Maximize your Financial Gain. What about Mine?” Analysis of National Outline Plan No. 38 as a Planning Deal” Tichnun (Hebrew with an English abstract)

Submitted manuscript(s) under review:

  1. Aharon-Gutman, M. “Border disorder: on urban boundary work and crime in divided city” submitted to Theoretical Criminology (June 2017) (revised and resubmit)
  2. Aharon-Gutman M. and Burg D. “How 3D Technologies Can Help Us Understand Spatial Inequality: on social distance and crime” Planning and Environment B. (revised and resubmit)
  3. Aharon-Gutman Meirav, Beeri Itai and Luzar Jonathan “This land is your land, this land is my land: the distribution of land as reflected in the decisions of Border Committees” (Revised and Resubmit Feb 2019)

Work in Progress:

  1. Aharon-Gutman Meirav “The banality of spatial inequality: How and under what conditions can localities perform capital conversion for the enhancement of regional development?”
  2. Aharon-Gutman Meirav, Shchori Nili “Preventing Mega-Neighborhood from becoming Slums: a Dynamic Model as New Medium for Social Planning”
  3. Aharon-Gutman Meirav, Sivan, Dana “Military housing: Is it effective mechanism for urban renewal?”

Refereed book chapters

  1. Aharon-Gutman, M (2008) “Social photography as War photography”: New ways to learn the world of poor people. Back Yards, Bezalel Academy of Arts Book publication (in Hebrew)
  2. Aharon-Gutman, M (2009) “We Pay our Taxes and Serve in the Army”
    Toward a Critique of Multiculturalism in Israel”. In: Avi Sagie and Ohad Nachtomy (eds) The Multicultural Challenge in Israel. Boston, M.A: Academic Studies Press.
  1. Cohen, N. & M. Aharon-Gutman. (2017) Private property, public responsibility? Peri HaGalil as a case study. In Golan, A. & Donyets-Kedar (Eds.) Business of Cities, Cities of Business: Corporatizing Urban Space. Tel Aviv: Resling, pp. 53-83 (in Hebrew).

Other publications (Published in Israel)

  1. Aharon-Gutman, M. (2006). The Oriental’s point of view. In: Abutbul, Motzafi-Haller, Grinberg (eds). Mizrachi’s voices: a New Discourse on Society and Culture in Israel. Masada Press. (Hebrew).
  2. Aharon M. (2011) “The Israeli City as Sociological Phenomena” In: Yagil Levy and Sarig Ety (eds) Local Authority in Israel, Open University Press. Invited chapter (in Hebrew)
  3. Aharon, M. . The trees will grow, the children will grow. In Tal Alon Musas and Nurit Lisvosky (eds.) Gidon Sarig Landscape Architect (Forthcoming)
  4. Cohen, N., & Aharon-Gutman, M. Private property, Social responsibility: Peri Ha’Galil as a Case Study in Corporate social responsibility and the City Avirama Golan and Liad Ortar (eds) Resling Publication (Forthcoming) (in Hebrew)
  5. Aharon-Gutman, M. “Quality of life” and “Life” in the Modernist Plan City.” Planning Journal of the Association for Environment Planning in Israel 2(1): 55-74. (2005) (Hebrew).
  6. Aharon- Gutman M. “Please welcome the Andalusian orchestra”: toward a criticism of multiculturalism approach in Israel Alpaim 33:72-102 (2008) (Hebrew).
  7. Aharon, M. (co-editor with Gal Levy) NYU/TLV Narratives, Situations, Places. Journal of New York University in Tel Aviv. 1. August 2010 (in Hebrew).
  8. Aharon-Gutman, M. Urban Sociology. PANIM Journal (Rosenthal Rubik and Aharonovitch Kiki eds.) (2013)
  9. Aharon, M., Eizenburg, E., and Israel, A.I. Instead of annexing Bat Yam, split up Tel Aviv. Calcalist online. July 13, 2014. http://www.calcalist.co.il/local/articles/0,7340,L-3635828,00.html
  10. Critical perspective on “The good city” interview to Shotef+60 website June 2015 http://future-space.wix.com/shotefplus
  1. Prawer Noa, Aharon-Gutman Meirav, Plaut Pnina “How to implement Tama 38 (National outline plan 38)? Lets start with the residents” Calcalist online May 12 2015 http://m.ynet.co.il/Articles/4656367
  1. Aharon-Gutman, M. and Cohen N. “Work of Citizenship: The case of Vita Peri Ha’Galil” Planning Journal of the Association of planners in Israel 12(1) 210-223 2015. ‏

Press

  1. Amsterdansky Shaul “social Gaps, the third dimension version” Feb 6 2016 Calcalist http://www.calcalist.co.il/local/articles/0,7340,L-3680112,00.html
  2. Noibach Keren “Rethinking Terror in Jerusalem” September 14 2015 Seder yom
  3. Bocker Almog “Tel Aviv State” Dec 10 2015 Chanel 10
    http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1162556
  4. Amit Avi “What influence the Army camps have on the Israeli Periphery?” March 12 2016 Chanel 10
  5. http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1180113
  6. Mirovski, Arik “IDF training base (Ir Habahadim) didn’t became engine of development in the Negev” The Marker 05.2017
    https://www.themarker.com/realestate/1.4110060
  7. Mirovski, Arik “Aiming high with your first home” The Marker Real Estate April 2019

CONFERENCES AND INTERANTIONAL ACTIVITY

Launching  an international workshop

Spatial Information Technology and the Challenge of (social) planning (Together with Idan Porat and Dalit Sach-Pinsly) Guest lectures: Michele Campagna, Paulo Silva, Bev Wilson. (Nov 6, 2018)

Public value capture of increasing property values ( I leed and orgenised the first Meeting Of Cost Action 28-29.1.2019

Society, Urban Renewal and Technology : How Can Technology and Planning Shape more Equitable Cities? A collaboration of Jacobs institute, Cornell Tech The faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion  And CORNELL University. Organized together with Sharon Ayalon (Nov, 2019 New York)

(Re)-distributing urban goods: How can technological innovation in the realm of mobilityhelp moderate social inequality? A  collaboration of UCL and HafenCity Universität Hamburg (HCU) Writing workshop for submission to MOBILUS (Oct 2019    Hamburg Germany)

Invited lectures (abroad)

2019 “Social Topography”: Dynamic multiscale 3D modeling as a new medium for socio-spatial  policy formulation  at CASA UCL, LONDON

2019  “Smart Planning: Dynamic multiscale 3D modeling as a new medium for socio-spatial policy formulation”   at DPU UCL, LONDON

Presentations (giving papers)

International conferences

2019

 

2019

 

2019

 

2018

 “Preventing Mega-Neighborhood from becoming Slums: a Dynamic Model                                   as New Medium for Social Planning” World Congress on Resilience,

Reliability and asset Management, 28-31 July, Singapore

““Preventing Mega-Neighborhood from becoming Slums: a Dynamic Model as New Medium for Social Planning” AESOP 9-13 July Venice, Italy

 “Images and Realities: land of promise to stat-up nation?  35TH Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies.  Kinnert College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel 24-26, 2019

“The banality of spatial inequality: How and under what conditions can localities perform capital conversion for the enhancement of regional development?”  AESOP July Annual Congress
2018 June “Inequality and uncertainty: current challenges for cities”, ESA RN37 conference in Madrid, Spain.

 
2017 July “Social Topography: Learning spatial inequality through 3D regional model” XXVII ESRS  European Sociological rural Society, Krakow

 
2017 July “Social Topography: Learning spatial inequality through 3D regional model”. AESOP 2017 Annual Congress, Lisbon Portugal

 
2015 Sep “We thought they would do art, not politics” Hannah Arendt (in a seam line neighborhood) in Jerusalem the 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, 23-26 September 2015, Giardini Naxos, Sicily.
2015 July “The Question of Public Space: From Ideology to Real-Urbanism” (ID 134) AESOP 2015 Annual Congress 13-16 July,  Prague
2014 July 1.     “Real in their consequences: on Thomas Theorem, violence and border building in Jerusalem”.

2.     “Can the subaltern plan? From Objected Possibility to Objective  Possibility”.

9-12 July,  AESOP Utrecht-Delft
2013 November “From Objected Possibility to Objective Possibility: Toward a Re–thinking of Urbanity in Med Cities”. AESOP (Association of European Schools of

Planning) 20-23 Nov. Public Spaces and Urban Cultures Thematic Group Conference. Istanbul, Turkey
2011 June “Fine Turning: Musical war movie” movie and a lecture. Royal International festival of ethnographic films. 23-26 June, London, UCL
2010 November “The cross-cultural city: urban context and cultural diversity”. 11-12 Nov.  Van Leer Institute, The Mediterranean city: Master class.
2008 “Who Will Subsidize Our Emotional World?” Toward a Critique of Multiculturalism”. April 29, Fourth Annual Inter-Ivy Sociology Symposium (IISS), Princeton University
2008 May “Ethnic Classical Orchestra From ‘Appropriate Culture’ to Cultural Appropriation”. Annual Association for Israel Studies Conference (AIS)

New York City
2008 May “Reclaiming Ethnic Identity: Ethnography of a plan for social mobility”.

Middle East and North Africa Workshop, Columbia University (MENA)
2008 “Reclaiming Ethnic Identity: Ethnography of a plan for social mobility”. Workshop on North Africa and the North African Diaspora, April 2, Princeton University.
2007 November “And how much will you give to multi-culturalism?”: Toward a critique of neo-liberal multi-culturalism. 1-3 Nov. American Anthropological Association (AAA). Washington, DC.
2006 December “Triumph of the System: on De-mocratization in planed migrant city”.

Second talk: “Can we talk about multiculturalism in Israel?”

11-12 Dec. From Urban Heterogeneity to Multiculturalism: Envisioning the City in the Global Era. Ashdod, Israel. Chairperson: “Urban Politics in Highly Planned Immigrants’ City”.
2006 November “Separately together: Action of commemoration “from below” as critically assessing the concept of multiculturalism”. 15-19 Nov. American Anthropological Association (AAA) “Critical Intersection/ Dangerous Issues”. San Jose, California.
2005 May “Berlin: From divided into fragmented city”. Globalization, Unification and European Cities International workshop, Ben Gurion University, Discussant
2005 March “Planning and living in the modern National City”

31 March-3 April. Forum on Migration and Ethnic Relations (EUROFOR) Multi-Level Governance of Immigration Flows, Athens, Greece
2004 June “”Separately Together”: living the modern national city”. Association for Israeli Studies (AIS), Annual Conference. Jerusalem, Israel
2001 May “Work, Land: The Story of Palestinian Work Immigrants in the Age of Oslo”. Association for Israeli Studies (AIS), Annual Conference, Washington D.C.
2001 April “Border People: the story of the Palestinian work immigrants in the age of Oslo”. Humboldt University conference, “Identities in the Age of Modernity”, Berlin.

National conferences

2000 “Mizrahi Identity in the Public Discourse”. In Mizrachi perspectives Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.
2000 “Breaking Rules: The way things work”.  The Israeli Sociological Society’s annual conference, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2001 “Work, Land: The Story of Palestinian Work Immigrants at the Age of Oslo”. The Israeli anthropological Society’s annual conference, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2001 Presented visual text “Nobody’s Slave”. Tami Steinmetz Research Institute for Peace Studies, Annual Conference, Jerusalem, Israel.
2001 “Work, Land – The Story of Palestinian Work Migrant at the Age of Oslo”.

The Israeli Anthropological Society’s annual conference, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2002 “Border People: the story of the Palestinian work immigrants in the age of Oslo”. The Israeli Sociological Society’s annual conference, Haifa, Israel.
2003 “Between cooperation and resistance: Palestinian migrant workers in the Age of Oslo”. The Israeli Sociological Society’s annual conference, Beit Berl, Israel.
2003 “From national modern city to the Mediterranean city?”

Curator Of Photo Exhibition: “In and between the lines”.

The Israeli Anthropological Association, annual conference, Neve Ilan, Israel. “Practices of Resistance”.
2004 “Municipal colonialism: Ethnography in the Likud branch – Ashdod”.

The Israeli Sociological Society’s annual conference. Critical perspective on the notion of periphery
2004 “Nationalism and Ethnicity in the National modern City”. Geography Annual conference, Haifa.
2005 Life Today in the “City of Tomorrow”.

The Israeli Anthropological Association, Annual conference, Nazareth.
2006 “Oriental, classic orchestra”.

Israeli Anthropological Association, annual conference, Ashdod. “Israeli Place: between planed authenticity and authentic plans”.
2012 “What we will do if we won’t work here?: on work crisis in company town” (together with Dr. Nir Cohen).

Israeli Association of Planners Annual conference, Haifa,
2013 “Med-Cities: Re-Thinking urbanity”. Israeli Association of Planners Annual conference, Tel Aviv
2014 “Citizenship at work: the struggle for work at “Vita Pri H’agalil” (together with Nir Cohen). Israeli sociological Association – Between Work and Family, Tel Aviv University.
2015 The Israeli Planners’ Conference (19-20 February Beer Sheva) “A fishing rod is useless if they can’t get to the sea: Work and young (im)mobilities in the Israeli periphery”
2016 The Israeli Planners’ Conference
2017 “Along the lines: on the connection between crime and urban space” Israeli Sociological Association, annual conference, Ranana
2017 The Israeli Planners’ Conference, Haifa

SERVICE

Service: profession

2015 May Lecturer: the Negev from state’s sandbox to the Metropolin of the South.  28 May)
2014 June Lecturer: “Between conservation and change”. The Mandel Institute of Leadership Development, Jerusalem.
2014 June Lecturer: “What is a neighborhood?” Museum of Netanya
2014 March “The challenge of planning the Kibbutz public space”.  Directors of the Kibbutz Movement
2013 November “Re-planning the Kibbutz Center”. Heterogenic Managers Group.
2013 November “Space-society relations”. Regional Council Galil Elyon

 

Service: Society

2016 ” It’s take a village to raise a child”: on education and urban sociology Rashi Foundation (29 June)
2015 Lecturer: 12 mint. Haztor, Zefat, Rosh Pinna “Invitation to meet Urban Sociology” (1 June)
2014 Moderator of a group for achievable housing in Haztor H’aglilit
2003-2007 Founder and Board Member, “Agada”: Science and Arts Community Center for mothers and children’s.
2001-2002 Director, “Summer University for Teenagers”, Tel Aviv University. Promoting academic education for youth from peripheral regions.
1996-1998 Coordinator, “Perach Project”, Tel Aviv, Israel. Mentoring children from disadvantaged families.
1997-1998 Volunteer, “The Society for Fighting Cancer” annual fund raising campaign.
1995-1998 Instructor, “Israel Yafa” Learning Center. Urban and environmental ecology course.
1995-1996 Tutor of Biology, “Perach Project” Tel Aviv, Israel. Tutoring children from disadvantaged families.

 

Service: Faculty

 

2018

 Spatial Information Technology and the challenge of social planning (international workshop)
2017 Lecture by Prof. Haim Hazan (Organizer) “Community as urban yearning”
2016 Atidim
2015 Music Show (Organizer): David Peretz on culture and Periphery (1 June)
2015 Symposium (Organizer): Prof. Tamar El Or on Material Culture (18 March)
2014 Workshop (Organizer): Hila Koren on Collective Intelligence (29 Dec)
2014 Writing Workshop (Organizer) for Phd students with Dr. Yofi Tirosh
2014 Symposium (Organizer): Can we plan longing? (2 March)