“ARQUITECTURA AQUI NA ESCOLA: ONDE ANDOU NA PRIMÁRIA?” DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte will be at NEI2025 – European Researchers' Night with the...

DINÂMIA'CET integrated researcher Joana Pestana Lages  has just won an ERC Starting Grant worth 1.5 million euros, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) . The grant will allow her to develop the HOUSING FREEDOM  project over the next five years. The project, Housing as a Tool for Freedom: A Future Away from Incarceration proposes a paradigm shift: to see housing as a material condition for freedom. Based on an abolitionist approach, the project aims to move beyond pu

SAH Virtual 2025 Date:  September 18, 2025 Time:  4:00 PM - 5:50 PM On September 18, the session Asian (post)colonial works, labour and gender through the camera lens  will take place at the SAH Virtual conference. The session examines how photography intersects with the histories of labor, architecture, and gender in Asian (post-colonial) contexts, particularly in Macau. It brings together researchers from the LabourMap-Macao (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) project and will have Kathlee

Rita Calvário , researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, will present the paper "We women fought hard in the fields: rural women and the Portuguese Revolution"  at the International Conference ‘Rural History 2025' . The event will be hosted by the University of Coimbra from September 9th to 12th, 2025, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Faculty of Economics. Rita Calvário’s presentation is scheduled for September 10th, during Parallel Session 6, from 17:00 to 19:00, at the

Location:  FAU | Mackenzie Video Conference Room Date:  August 27, 2025 Time:  7:00 PM The Inaugural Lecture, "Comunicar Arquitectura! Sínteses da Cultura Arquitetônica”  will be presented by Paula André (Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon / DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) on August 27th, at 7:00 PM, at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of Mackenzie University in São Paulo. The lecture will address the publication of architecture, an approach based on historiographical studies a

Date:  September 15, 2025 Location:  Iscte | Building 4 | Auditorium A302 Time:  2:30 PM - 5:15 PM On September 15, 2025, from 2:30 PM to 5:15 PM, the conference “Digital Transition in Organizations: What's the Impact?”  will take place at Iscte, in Building 4, Auditorium A302. The event is organized by Glória Rebelo   (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte). The digitalization of the economy represents a profound change in organizational activity, with a strong impact on work. As the digital tr

III International Congress Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes: Architecture, Colonialism and Labour 11-13 February 2026 Calouste...

XI Seminar on Research, Teaching, and Dissemination The COLLABORATIVE LABORATORY: Urban Dynamics, Heritage, Arts. Seminar on Research, Teaching, and Dissemination , coordinated by Paula André (Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon/DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte), will hold its 11th edition on August 28 and 29, 2025, at Mackenzie Presbyterian University (São Paulo, Brazil). Location: Auditorium of the Historical and Cultural Center of Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Building 01) Virtua

Candidates enrolled and registered in the PhD Program in Urban Studies (a joint PhD program between Iscte and NOVA-FCSH) at Iscte can...

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte expresses its condolences on the passing of architect Nuno Portas  this past Sunday, July 27, 2025. Nuno Portas’s theoretical thinking influenced DINÂMIA'CET’s scientific culture in the fields of architecture and urban studies. The breadth and cross-disciplinary nature of his political and methodological work repeatedly brought him close to researchers such as Vítor Matias Ferreira, Isabel Guerra, José Manuel Henriques, and Sandra Marques Pereira, with whom

The journal CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios  has just released its 49th issue (July 2025), which includes the thematic dossier...

On July 23, 2025, at 10:30 AM, the public defense of Filipe Nassauer Mónica 's doctoral thesis will take place at Iscte. The project is titled "Natural Selection: Architectural Competitions and the Case of Sagres in 1954"  and is supervised by Professor Paulo Tormenta Pinto. The session will be held in Auditorium B203 of Iscte's Building II.

Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves House-Museum; Model: Model of the surrounding area Boundaries: Avenida Duque d’Ávila, Rua Filipe Folque, Rua de São Sebastião da Pedreira, Rua Viriato, Rua Andrade Corvo, Avenida Duque de Loulé, Rua da Escola de Medicina Veterinária, Avenida dos Defensores de Chaves; Scale: 1/1000; Conception: João Sousa and Teresa Rodeia (Vitruvius FabLab-Iscte) Data: CIUL-CML Data Processing: Carla Duarte (Dinâmia’cet-Iscte) 3D Model: Margarida Bessa Concept: Paula A

Rita Calvário , researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, will participate as guest speaker at the International Workshop ‘Transforming Agri Food Systems in Rural/Urban Contexts' , which will take place at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin, on July 10th and 11th, 2025.   TRANSFORMING AGRI FOOD SYSTEMS IN RURAL/URBAN CONTEXTS Agri-food system changes concerning issues of sovereignty, justice, democracy, environment/climate, labor, and health, among others, demand academic atten

Candidates enrolled and registered in the interdisciplinary PhD Program in Political Economy for the 2025/2026 academic year can apply...

The electoral process for choosing the new Board of Directors and Scientific Committee of DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte for the 2025 to 2028...

The documentary "Lugar Comum"  is now available on the DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte YouTube channel. "Lugar Comum" is a DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte research project coordinated by Ana Brandão , focused on public spaces and public life in the extensive metropolitan city. It explores how these places are formed, used, managed, and transformed, giving visibility to everyday practices and spaces to understand the production of the built environment and to debate future challenges. The documentary, wi

Susana Azevedo's PhD Public Defense Date:  July 3, 2025 Time:  10:30 AM Location:  Room B327, 3rd Floor, Building 4, Iscte. Architecture and Health: The Role of the Built Environment in Healthy Aging This is an innovative investigation conducted at ISCTE-IUL that analyzes one of the greatest social, economic, and political transformations of the 21st century: population aging. Led by Susana Azevedo , the study "Architecture, Health, and Healthy Aging: Planning, Practice, and

Rita Calvário , researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, will participate as a guest lecturer at the International Summer School of Political Ecology 2025 'Strategies for a Just Green Transition' , which will take place at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, from June 30 to July 4.   STRATEGIES FOR A JUST GREEN TRANSITION How can we implement a just green transition? This is a question we frequently pose, yet rarely explore in sufficient depth to answer it with a

Over 500 participants, from more than 50 countries, are expected at the 16th International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference...

The scientific meeting, "15-Minute City in Practice - Insights from DUT Projects involving Portuguese-Based Partners,"  will take place on July 10, 2025, from 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM at the University of Aveiro (UA) - Department of Social, Political, and Territorial Sciences (DCSPT) - Amphitheater 12.1.19. This event, which will promote debate among the Portuguese participants of the DUT projects—including "HAT - Agriculture and Mobility in 15-Minute Cities"—is coordinated by Prof