Research Focus
How new technologies of representation allow us to document, analyze and represent the spatial experience of (African) migrant workers in metropolitan cities.

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The research I present is multidisciplinary, and relies on studies from social sciences, geography, design and urban planning. The research takes place in two circles and responds to two challenges. In the first and immediate circle, the study seeks to advance our knowledge regarding the movement of African migrant workers. This is without a work visa and/or residence in Tel Aviv. This is to expand our knowledge about how they consume the city. In the second circle, the research seeks to respond to the growing trends in the world of urban innovation in which the development of computer models based on 3D data, known as a digital twin, in this circle will be developed in this research framework in a limited way and with the intention of expanding the research action about it in the framework of a doctorate.

The research I wish to conduct was born in the Smart Social Strategy 3s laboratory. This is a laboratory for smart-strategic-social planning that relies on urban innovation, promotes urban resilience and ensures sustainable urban development in the fields of society, the environment and the economy.

Through engagement with the most disadvantaged groups in every society, the undocumented, I seek to advance the social act within the realms of data-based modeling. The readers challenge the social order and its computerized representation which is often based on institutional knowledge. Hence the question that motivates me is how these technologies and concepts can (or cannot) represent and analyze the world of the unregistered? In other words, I want to challenge urban digital coordination. I would like to ask how the Black digital twin helps us get to the bottom of urbanism on its documented and undocumented sides.

I would like to join the effort to achieve the social turning point in smart cities. To challenge the emerging concepts of digital twins in general and urban digital twins in particular.

At the center of this research is a precise technological tool that is rapidly developing, the digital twin whose development axis began in the world of machines and reached the smart city and is in advanced stages of development towards a social digital twin that will respond to disadvantaged populations that need contemporary and sustainable mapping, local situations that must be taken into account and solutions found for them correct which will be able to contain silenced and silenced societal challenges for populations that are not registered in the municipal database. A transparent social wave that is not recorded on maps or in cities is the starting point of this study. It also shows the existence of a distorted map of Tel Aviv, which is inaccurate, but safe for the details it represents. It also offers insights into urban economic, political, civil, and cultural factors.

A black digital twin makes it possible to create a new mapping tool that is based on political, economic, social color and not on skin color, and the importance of its development is the way in which it will be able to refer to the city and all the inhabitants living in it in a way that sustains a new system that also allows for a consciously anti-realistic representation, but if this is anchored in the urban reality of Tel Aviv. As a result of marking on knowledge maps, the "real" urban space is altered, layers of images and geographic markers are added or removed, and signs of the place are remapped according to additional criteria: political, cultural, and emotional. Maps that enable alternative relationship networks that displace those who are not present. With the help of other mapping it is possible to neutralize the fear and danger that exists in the legitimate and non-legitimate tool and conduct a broad discussion among the participants of the entire city.