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Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies

RELATED PROJECTS

RESEARCH TEAM

Saila-Maria Saaristo
POSITION

Integrated Researcher

RESEARCH GROUP

Cities and Territories

EMAIL
2023.07870.CEECIND

2024 - 2031

Displaced Survival and Neoliberalism from below. The Nexus of Migration, Labour, and Housing Struggles of Migrant Women in Portugal and Angola

Care(4)Housing

2022 — 2025

A care through design approach to address housing precarity in Portugal

Homes2live

2025 — 2025

Inhabiting the Revolution: Perspectives on social transformations and spatial production from the squatted houses of Amendoeiras neighbourhood, in Lisbon

UrbanoScenes

2022 — 2025

UrbanoScenes. Post-colonial imaginaries of urbanisation: A future-oriented investigation from Portugal and Angola

RELATED NEWS

Event

Book Launch of 'Transgressive City-Making and Governance: Housing Struggles, Occupations and Evictions in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area', authored by Saila-Maria Saaristo

08/04/2026

We are pleased to announce the launch of the book Transgressive City-Making and Governance: Housing Struggles, Occupations and Evictions in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, authored by the DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte's researcher, Saila-Maria Saaristo.


The event will be part of the International Conference 'Portuguese/Global Urban Studies', organized by the Urban Transitions Hub, ICS-ULisboa, CIES-Iscte, Iscte-IUL, and CICS.NOVA.IPLeiria, and will take place on 22 April 2026, at 4:00 PM, in the ICS-ULisboa auditorium (ground floor).

Event

Care(4)Housing: Final Presentation

10/12/2025

We invite you to the Final Presentation of the Care(4)Housing project – A care through design approach to address housing precarity, 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, Floor 3, Auditorium A302.

Event

Ethno-Urban Reading, by Saila-Maria Saaristo

18/03/2025

Saila-Maria Saaristo will give a reading of The aesthetics of belonging: Indigenous urbanism and city building in oil-boom Luanda, by Claudia Gastrow (2024).

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