Guest Lecture | Dr. Arch. Ariel Noyman – Street Knowledge: Towards a new urban process
The school of Architecture invites to 'Street Knowledge: Towards a new urban process' – A guest lecture by Dr. Arch. Ariel Noyman.
Rapid urbanization is reshaping cities worldwide, creating both unprecedented opportunities and pressing challenges. Immigration, climate change, technological disruption, and inequality are straining traditional planning processes and exposing their limitations. As cities expand and urban systems grow more complex, new approaches to decision-making are urgently needed.
Dr. Arch. Ariel Noyman's research explores novel urban processes that combine data-driven, evidence-based analysis with human-centric, participatory planning. This work is embodied in CityScope, an interactive urban modeling, simulation, and decision-support platform. CityScope has been deployed in over 20 cities worldwide in diverse real-world contexts: from collaboratively allocating refugee housing in Germany, to analyzing tourism-driven mobility in Andorra, to crowdsourcing urban redevelopment strategies in Chile, to co-creating mass-transit scenarios in Boston.
Across these use cases, CityScope has been developed and evaluated through four interconnected themes:
Insight: real-time urban observatories using spatial and mobility data;
Transformation: iterative and collaborative Urban Human–Computer Interaction systems;
Prediction: simulation and forecasting of emergent urban dynamics;
Consensus: multi-stakeholder decision-making and community engagement.
Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 17:30-18:30
Auditorium
The School of Architecture, 1 Bezalel st., Jerusalem
