The call is open to PhD candidates, researchers at all career stages, and practitioners working in heritage, architecture, landscape, and related social sciences.

The latest issue of CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios (November 2026) is out.

The 3rd Seminar of the Tecnopolíticas da Participação Project will take place on 2 and 3 December 2026. The programme will be spread over two days, with the first taking place at the Lisbon School of Architecture of the University of Lisbon (FA.ULisboa) and the second at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon. 

The event will present the findings of the different working groups on housing policies and practices in Brazil and Portugal.

Four research projects led by Integrated Researchers at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte have been selected for funding through calls launched by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

The seminar will bring together four speakers to explore different perspectives on architecture, contemporary territorial transformations, curatorial practices and artistic production. Taking place on 11 November 2026, at 2:30 PM, in Auditorium 302, Building 4, Iscte, Lisbon. The seminar is part of the PhD Programme in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories and is free and open to the public.

In the second semester of the 2026/2027 academic year, Iscte will offer a new range of curricular units in Academic and Scientific Skills, aimed at third-cycle (PhD) students

The seminar will take place from 28 to 30 October 2026 at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, in a hybrid format, welcoming both in-person and online participation.

Drawing on the concept of housing discontent, the researcher reflects on the social and political impacts of the housing crisis and examines the measures proposed by the Portuguese Government in this context.

The document was presented by Nuno Costa, President of the Secção Regional dos Açores da Ordem dos Arquitectos (Azores Regional Section of the Order of Architects, OA.SRAZO), Fernando Diogo, from the Universidade dos Açores (University of the Azores), and Lídia Fernandes, from DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, representing the report’s coordinating team.

The seminar “Transições - Sair da Prisão, Habitar a Liberdade” (Transitions - Leaving Prison, Inhabiting Freedom) marks the launch of the project “Housing Freedom - Housing as a Tool for Freedom: A Future Away from Incarceration.” The event will take place on 20 October at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM, in Building 4, Floor 3, Auditorium A302.

New dates announced for screenings of the documentary and presentations of the book Mulheres, Terra e Revolução, by Rita Calvário and Cecília Honório, at FÓLIO 2026 - Óbidos International Literary Festival on 9 October and at Clube UNESCO in Beja on 16 October, to mark the International Day of Rural Women.

The FORMA Awards recognise outstanding architectural work in Portugal, as well as architects and teams who have contributed to the country’s recent architectural production, promoting and highlighting contemporary architectural practice.

The article “Strategic pathways for decarbonization: a data-driven typology to strengthen climate policy”, co-authored by D’C researchers Nuno Bento and Margarida Fontes, was recently published in Climate Policy. 

The "Prémio Maria Lamas para Estudos sobre a Mulher e o Género (PML)" was awarded ex aequo to DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte integrated researcher Vera Silva for her work "Configurações de Género nas Prisões Femininas: Permanências, Continuidades e Variações".

The 8th edition of the event dedicated to “Cities, Architecture and Archives in the Ibero-American Context” will take place at the Lisbon School of Architecture - University of Lisbon (FA.ULisboa) on 9–10 October 2026.

DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte welcomes visiting researchers Julia Rabelo and Çiğsem Yağmur Yüksel for two ArchLabour talks exploring Urban Heritage and Archival Research: Research Trajectories and the Bairro do Zambujal Case and also, A Socio-Ecological Sensory Mapping Framework Using Human-in-the-Loop AI and MAXQDA

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte will be at NEI2026 – European Researchers' Night with the activity “What Is Prison For? Abolition for a World Without Prisons!”, organized by researchers Joana Pestana Lages, Vera Silva and Ricardo Loureiro.

On Monday, 21 September, at 10:00, the lecture “The Construction History of Modern Rio de Janeiro (1921–1937)”, will take place at CVTT – Iscte, Building 4, Room A104, in Lisbon.

The lecture will present research conducted by Professor Niuxa Drago and her team at the Laboratory of Narratives in Architecture (LANA), part of PROARQ at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Ana Vaz Milheiro wrote about architect Fernão Lopes Simões Carvalho on the September 9th edition of Público newspaper.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte associate researcher Doron Altaratz will present a talk on the Wall as Interface.

A wall is not a neutral carrier of the marks left on it. It is an interface: it determines what a body can do to it, under whose authority, and what trace survives. This talk follows that claim across three sites and three kinds of surfaces: the physical wall, human traces, and the digital surrogate.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher holds that the concept of home is changing because we are in a deep housing crisis.

In preparation for the upcoming  ECIE 2026 conference, the INITIATE project and the CERERE project are organizing two pre-conference webinars, to be held on 16 September (2-3 PM and 3-4 PM, respectively).

"Raul Lino and The City", by DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Paulo Manta Pereira, published as a preprint in 2016, has been shortlisted for the Popular Preprints of the Decade Award. This paper, which was later published on Enq journal, focuses on architect Raul Lino's work, eleven case studies encompassing architectural projects, urbanistic plans and technical advice in the first half of the 20th century in Portugal.

The exhibition, which results from the research project Homes2Live | Inhabiting the Revolution: Perspectives on social transformations and spatial productions from occupied houses in Bairro das Amendoeiras, in Lisbon, will be open from September 15th to 19th 2026.

"Do convento para o cabaré: quando uma igreja vazia se enche de outros fiéis" is a recent article published in the "Vícios" section of Expresso newspaper, by João Diogo Correia, following an online conversation with DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Rolando Volzone.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Ana Mehnert Pascoal featured in an interview in the latest issue of Sábado magazine. 

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Sandra Marques Pereira participated in the RTP Notícias programme 'Tudo é Economia'.

On July 22, 2026, at 15:00, the public defense of Catarina Mateus' doctoral thesis will take place at Iscte Building 4.

The A+I Working Paper Series has opened a call for submissions for its fourth issue, edited by Guest Editor Nuno Tavares da Costa (Dinâmia'CET-Iscte). The abstract deadline (300 words) is 19 October 2026.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Glória Rebelo will be the speaker at the conference 'Labor Law: Digital Transition, Artificial Intelligence and Teleworking'.