The El Salto company presents the production 'Dar o Couro' (D'Arrache Corps) on 5 and 6 March 2026, at Teatro Avenidas – Um teatro em cada bairro , an initiative promoted with the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Direção Municipal de Cultura, DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte, Observatório do Emprego Jovem. The artistic project, grounded in scientific field research conducted in France, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, proposes a critical reflection on suffering and pleasure at work, util

The call for papers for the II Seminar 'Tecnopolíticas da Participação: Panoramas das Polítícas e Práticas Habitacionais Contra-hegemónicas nos Contextos Brasileiro e Português' deadline has been extended to 10 February 2026, at 18:00 (Brasília Time). The Seminar, co-organized by the DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researchers Ana Carolina Farias and Isabella Rusconi , aims to discuss and systematize papers related to the four thematic axes of the Technopolitics of Participation Network,

Ana Mehnert Pascoal’s chapter ‘Between Hierarchy, Efficiency and Pragmatism: Picturing Portuguese Government Offices in Historic Buildings during the Estado Novo Dictatorship’ has been published by Leuven University Press in the open-acess book Behind Office Doors. Use and Users in the History of Office Buildings , edited by Jens van de Maele.   The visual essay considers Portuguese government offices under the Estado Novo dictatorship, particularly the use of ministerial of

Photo by Fausto Giaccone The documentary Mulheres, Terra, Revolução  (Women, Land, Revolution), authored by Rita Calvário (resarcher at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) and Cecília Honório, will be screened at Sede do Grupo Coral “Os Papa Borregos de Alvito, at Rua das Pereiras, 6, Alvito, on February 28th, at 2:30 p.m. The documentary was developed within the scope o  f the Gendered power relations in agriculture: how rural women are facing gender inequality and struggling for more just a

Rita Calvário , researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, and Cecília Honório will present the Conference ‘Mulheres Rurais na Reforma Agrária’, within the framework of the Gendered power relations in agriculture: how rural women are facing gender inequality and struggling for more just and sustainable agri-food systems – the case of Portugal  research project. The conference is part of the cycle 'Terra e Paisagens no Sul – Conferências de Beja', resulting from a partnership between ED

The working meeting titled 'Precarization of Labour and Obstetric Racism'  will take place on 9 Februray 2026, at Iscte, Building 4, Room A104, from 3.00 PM to 6.00 PM. The joint working session bringing together researchers and postgraduate students, aims to critically analyze the relationships between the precarization of labour, structural racism, and the reproductive health of Black women regarding obstetric violence. The session will address labour exploitation in relat

The 3rd edition of the International Congress Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes  will take place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, from 11 to 13 February 2026. Following the questioning of Architecture, Cities and Infrastructures (2019) and Architecture, Colonialism and War (2023) in previous editions, this edition will focus on Architecture , Cities , and Labour . The programme includes the Opening Conference with Senegalese architect Nzinga Biegueng Mboup

Rita Calvário , researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, will join the 9th Annual Meeting of Political Economy, as guest speaker, within the framework of the SWIFT - Supporting Women-led Innovation in Farming Territories  research project. The event will be hosted by the Institute of Sociology - University of Porto and Católica Porto Business School, from 29 to 31 January 2026. SWIFT, which stands for Supporting Women-Led Innovations in Farming and Rural Territories, is a 4 year fund

Pursuant to the Regulations of DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte — Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies, the appointment of the new team comprising the Ethics Committee of this research unit has been formalized. Maria Eduarda Gonçalves Barroso assumes the Chair, accompanied by Helena Maria de Sousa Lopes and José Luís Possolo de Saldanha as committee members. DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte welcomes the new Ethics Committee and wishes them every success in the exercise of their duties.

Beatriz Serrazina , Assistant Researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, has published the chapter ‘ Building the Fringes of Empire. Mining Companies, Transnational Experts, Race and Space in Colonial Africa' in the Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture. When organized to explore and exploit large territorial pockets, private companies became crucial scaffolds for building European Empires in Africa. The architecture of these colonial outposts, being grey and mundane,

Location: Lisbon | El Corte Inglês | Floor 6 Date: 28 January 2026 Time: 6:30 PM Within the scope of the exhibition Vizinhanças: ausências e presenças em torno da Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves  [Neighbourhoods: absences and presences around the Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves House-Museum], the conference ‘Do Alto das Picoas à Casa Prego: viagens do olhar em torno de uma resistência’ [From the Alto das Picoas to Casa Prego : visual journeys around a resistance], delivered by

The 11th edition of Iscte's magazine Entrecampus is now out, featuring DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte Integrated Researcher Teresa Marat-Mendes . Teresa Marat-Mendes was interviewed on her research project HAT - Hyping Agriculture and Transit in 15-minute Cities (15mC) – Food-growing public transport-oriented communities driving urban transitions as green Proximity Oriented Developments (PODs) Read the interview   here and check the full issue at Iscte's website (only in Portuguese).

Fotografia de Tiago Miranda In today's edition of Expresso  (December 12, 2025), DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Sandra Marques Pereira , authors a feature essay in the Ideias  supplement, critically analysing the build-to-rent model. Sandra Marques Pereira issues a clear warning regarding the need for caution in drafting new housing policies: "Now that all doors are opening to institutional investors and build-to-rent, some reflection would be advisable: anticipating the risks

The chapter 'Salários dos Jovens em Portugal' (Youth Wages in Portugal), by Paulo Marques , Rita Guimarães and Alexandre Mergulhão has been published in the book Salário Digno em Portugal: Da necessidade à possibilidade de uma política , coordinated by José António Pereirinha and Elvira Pereira. The wages earned by young people have become a topic of significant interest in public and academic debate in Portugal, particularly regarding the salaries of qualified youth. This i

We invite you to the   Final Presentation of the Care(4)Housing project –  A care through design approach to address housing precarity  (“Cuidar d(a) Habitação”), funded by FCT (PTDC/ART-DAQ/0181/2021). The presentation will be held on 15 December at 16:30, at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Building 4, Avenida das Forças Armadas, 40 Floor 3, Auditorium A302. [ Link to Map ] Since 2022, Care(4)Housing has combined interdisciplinary research with in-depth fieldwork

The DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte Catalyst project team has launched a comprehensive suite of eight new training courses within CATALYST network. Designed to foster professional development across varying stages of expertise, the new portfolio offers curriculum options at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. The initiative aims to address key contemporary challenges in the workplace, from data analysis to sustainable management. The beginner-level selection provides a solid found

Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon has been honored with the European Commission’s  HR Excellence in Research  award, a testament to its commitment to the professional development and well-being of its researchers. With this distinction, Iscte becomes the first Portuguese university to receive this prestigious recognition, which had previously only been awarded to one faculty and nine research laboratories in Portugal. This award underscores Iscte’s pioneering role in ele

Mass Higher Education and the Changing Labour Market Graduates: Between Employability and Employment , organized by Fátima Suleman , Pedro Videira , and Pedro N. Teixeira, has been chosen as the Iscte Library’s Book of the Month for December. This work is based on a comparative study regarding the massification of higher education and its consequences for graduate employment and employability. For an overview of the book, please watch this video  or consult the accompanying b

Andrea Pavoni’s chapter ‘Un-mastering Life: Law, Value and Locality in Natural Wine Ontology’ has been published by Springer in the book Uncorked: Negotiating Science and Belief in the Natural Wine Movement . Appearing in the first major scholarly collection on Natural Wine, this chapter probes how this growing phenomenon unsettles what is taken for granted about agency, control, trust, and responsibility in the contemporary wine world, teasing out the ethical possibilities

DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte marks the passing of architect Frank Gehry (1929-2025) on December 5. Gehry was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1989. He was the author of major projects such as the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris. For Lisbon, in 2003 he designed the rehabilitation of Parque Mayer, a project that was never built. His architecture left a strong mark on

The article ‘Legislar a orgânica das entidades sob a tutela central da Cultura: evolução do panorama legislativo no período democrático em Portugal’ (Legislating the organics of entities under the central oversight of Culture: Evolution of the legislative landscape in the democratic period in Portugal), by DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researchers Tiago Mendes and Pedro Costa , has been published in the Journal Análise Social . The authors mapped the evolution of the organic configurat