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Nuno Grancho examines colonial urbanism under Portuguese, French, and Danish rule in India, offering a critical decolonial approach to architecture through material and spatial analysis
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'Ways of Inhabiting and Perceiving an Álvaro Siza House' – by Sandra Marques Pereira, Tânia Lemos, Idalina Machado and Leandro Arez
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‘José Maneiras (1935-2025), um inventor da arquitectura macaense?’ – New article by Ana Vaz Milheiro in the newspaper Público
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‘A bomba-relógio da abstenção’ won the Data Journalism Award 2024 from Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística
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Housing Exclusion and Mental Health: Lídia Fernandes co-authors a new chapter for the thematic dossier Comportamentos Aditivos e Margens, coordinated by Vasco Calado
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How does co-creating the stories of public facilities help to reimagine architecture as a collective practice?
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Nuno Grancho examines colonial urbanism under Portuguese, French, and Danish rule in India, offering a critical decolonial approach to architecture through material and spatial analysis
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'Ways of Inhabiting and Perceiving an Álvaro Siza House' – by Sandra Marques Pereira, Tânia Lemos, Idalina Machado and Leandro Arez
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‘José Maneiras (1935-2025), um inventor da arquitectura macaense?’ – New article by Ana Vaz Milheiro in the newspaper Público
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‘A bomba-relógio da abstenção’ won the Data Journalism Award 2024 from Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística
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Housing Exclusion and Mental Health: Lídia Fernandes co-authors a new chapter for the thematic dossier Comportamentos Aditivos e Margens, coordinated by Vasco Calado
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How does co-creating the stories of public facilities help to reimagine architecture as a collective practice?
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28/11/2025
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28/11/2025
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26/10/2025
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Nuno Grancho examines colonial urbanism under Portuguese, French, and Danish rule in India, offering a critical decolonial approach to architecture through material and spatial analysis
28/11/2025
Nuno Grancho, Integrated Researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, has published the chapter 'Public Shared Places and Private Absent Divides. Identity and Space of Colonial Urbanism under Portuguese, French, and Danish Rules: Diu, Pondicherry and Tranquebar' in The Routledge Companion to Art and Challenges to Empire.
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'Ways of Inhabiting and Perceiving an Álvaro Siza House' – by Sandra Marques Pereira, Tânia Lemos, Idalina Machado and Leandro Arez
28/11/2025
DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researchers Sandra Marques Pereira and Tânia Lemos co-authored the chapter ‘Ways of Inhabiting and Perceiving an Álvaro Siza House’ with Idalina Machado and Leandro Arez, for the Routlegde Handbook of Architecture and Anthropology.
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‘José Maneiras (1935-2025), um inventor da arquitectura macaense?’ – New article by Ana Vaz Milheiro in the newspaper Público
26/10/2025
New article by Ana Vaz Milheiro on the work and life of the architect José Maneiras as a central figure in Macanese architecture, is now available in the November 26, 2025 edition of the newspaper Público.
Photography by António Mil Homens.
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‘A bomba-relógio da abstenção’ won the Data Journalism Award 2024 from Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística
25/11/2025
The data research project, A bomba-relógio da abstenção (The Abstention Time Bomb), by Divergente in collaboration with the European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet) and DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte, won the Data Journalism Award 2024 from the Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística.
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Housing Exclusion and Mental Health: Lídia Fernandes co-authors a new chapter for the thematic dossier Comportamentos Aditivos e Margens, coordinated by Vasco Calado
25/11/2025
DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researcher Lídia Canha Fernandes, co-authored the chapter Exclusão Habitacional, Saúde Mental e Novas Substâncias Psicoativas (Housing Exclusion, Mental Health and New Psychoactive Substances), with Paulo Vitorino Fontes, Hélder Fernandes, and João Mendes Coelho, for the thematic dossier Comportamentos Aditivos e Margens, coordinated by Vasco Calado.
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How does co-creating the stories of public facilities help to reimagine architecture as a collective practice?
24/11/2025
The International Journal of Public History has published the article Towards a Public Architectural History: Collective-Use Facilities and Community Engagement in Portugal and Spain, developed by researchers from DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte – Ricardo Costa Agarez, Ana Mehnert Pascoal and Ivonne Herrera-Pineda.
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The Observatory investigates current housing transformations, emphasizing production systems, affordability, housing conditions—especially indecent housing—and policies. It bridges academic research with policy and community involvement. Guided by a multidisciplinary team, it addresses a national gap and supports evidence-based decision-making, utilizing tools like LxHabidata to enhance analysis and outreach.
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The Observatory examines rapid transitions in city-regions by analysing their metabolic systems to promote sustainable human-environment relations. Through open data and interdisciplinary research, it maps socio-environmental dynamics and material flows, developing digital and spatial narratives that support better planning and decision-making for sustainable urban development.