RELATED PROJECTS
RESEARCH TEAM
Saila-Maria Saaristo

POSITION
Integrated Researcher
RESEARCH GROUP
Cities and Territories
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
Homes2live
2025 — 2025
Inhabiting the Revolution: Perspectives on social transformations and spatial production from the squatted houses of Amendoeiras neighbourhood, in Lisbon
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.
