DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Nuno Grancho recently gave an interview to Óscar de Noronha for the Revista da Casa de Goa, following his recent selection as a Visiting Professor at Brown University for the 2026/27 academic year, where he will teach the curricular unit “Espaços de Contacto: Arquitectura, Colonialismo e Descolonização no Mundo de Língua Portuguesa” (Contact Spaces: Architecture, Colonialism and Decolonization in the Portuguese-Speaking World).

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte is pleased to invite you to the upcoming screening sessions of the documentary and presentation of the book Mulheres, Terra, Revolução (Women, Land, Revolution), authored by Rita Calvário (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) and Cecília Honório (CHAM-NOVA FCSH).

The article Rural touristification and short-term rentals reshaping tourism geographies: Algarve’s spatial transformations, co-authored by DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researchers Ana Rita Cruz and Maria Assunção Gato has been published by Taylor & Francis.

On May 18, 2026, at 14:30, the public defense of Daniela Moreira da Silva doctoral thesis will take place at Iscte.

The project is titled The Impact of Digital Fabrication as a Methodology in the Context of Design Practice.

DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte announces the opening of an International Call for Applications for a position of Junior PhD Researcher (level 1) in the scientific fields of Social Sciences, for HABIDATA – Housing Observatory.

Application Deadline: 27 May 2026.

A new study by DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte shows that Portugal reaches 40 years of integration with higher income, but also with a "silent divergence": the majority of employed young people are on temporary contracts, the housing crisis primarily penalizes low-income earners and tenants, and energy poverty remains at more than double the European median.

DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte will host the book launch conference for Governing Solidarity in European Labour Markets: Atypical Employment and Minimum Wage Reform in Spain and Portugal on 5 June 2026, from 11:00 to 13:00, at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, Building 4, Auditoriums A306 and A302.

The project Tecnopolíticas da Participação - Panorama das políticas e práticas habitacionais contra-hegemônicas nos contextos brasileiro e português – invites you to the 2nd edition of Tecnopapos, a series of conversations for inter-institutional sharing and critical debates on technopolitics, democratic participation, and housing policies within the context of both countries.

This spring, the Political Economy Master’s programme (Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon) and PhD programme (Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, ISEG – University of Lisbon, and FE – University of Coimbra) are hosting a seminar series on pressing issues in capitalist societies, held at Iscte from March 3 to May 28, 2026.

The upcoming session "Housing accessibility and class: missing links?", presented by Ismael Yrigoy Cadena (University of the Balearic Islands), will take place on 14 May 2026, at Iscte, Building 4, Auditorium A306, at 18:00.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Teresa Marat-Mendes will take part in a debate on ‘The Food Issue’, in conversation with Esther Lohri (Slow Food) and Francisco Moura Veiga (The Good Life Research Studio), to reflect on the role of architecture and urban planning in the functioning of the food system.

The event, promoted by Open House Lisboa, will take place on 9 May, at 17:30, at the Mercado do Bairro Padre Cruz in Lisbon.

On Tuesday, 5 May 2026, the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidade de Lisboa will host a public talk by the award-winning filmmaker and visual artist Gabriel Abrantes. This event is part of the tenth edition of the Human Entities: culture in the age of artificial intelligence public talk programme.

We are pleased to announce a call for applications for the HOUSING FREEDOM project, funded by an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. The project, titled "Housing as a Tool for Freedom: A Future Away from Incarceration", has recently commenced at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte (Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies).

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Paulo Marques has published a new opinion article titled "A rigidez que dá jeito" (The convenient rigidity) in the Portuguese newspaper Público, on May 2, 2026. The piece critically analyses the current political debate surrounding Portugal's labour legislation.

DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte is pleased to invite you to the screening of the documentary and presentation of the book «Mulheres, Terra e Revolução» (Women, Land and Revolution), authored by Rita Calvário (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) and Cecília Honório (CHAM-NOVA FCSH).

The event will take place on 12 May 2026, between 6 pm and 8 pm, at Iscte, Building 4, Auditorium 302.

The article 'The political economy of ultra-activity in collective bargaining: explaining divergent post-crisis trajectories in Portugal and Spain', co-authored by Paulo Marques (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher and coordinator of the Youth Employment Observatory, Rui Branco, Óscar Molina and Madalena Ferreira has been published by Routledge in the New Political Economy Journal.

The upcoming session "Political competition in Europe, Ideological conflict lines in Europe", presented by Jan Rovny (Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences, Paris), will take place on 4 May 2026, at Iscte, Building 4, Auditorium A306, at 16:00.

The Dinâmicas Workshop returns at a significant moment, shaped both by profound socio-economic transformations and by a new stage in the life of DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte (DC).

A new study published in Science argues that governments must adopt three integrated targets for energy demand by 2035, stating that climate policy will fall short if it focuses solely on how energy is produced and continues to neglect how it is utilized. The study was led by Nuno Bento, researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte.

The documentary Mulheres, Terra, Revolução (Women, Land, Revolution), authored by Rita Calvário (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) and Cecília Honório (CHAM-NOVA FCSH), has been officially selected to compete at the 9th PORTO FEMME International Film Festival, with a screening on 26 April at 3:15 PM., at the Batalha Centro de Cinema.

Several funding opportunities for doctoral students are now open at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon for the 2026/2027 academic year. These opportunities include grants funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the PIONEER Alliance, as well as merit-based scholarships promoted by Iscte.

Iscte-Knowledge and Innovation Center CVTT invites researchers interested in applying for the Marie-Sklodowska Curie PostDoctoral Fellowships 2026 - HORIZON-MSCA-2026-PF-01-01.

Ana Oliveira, researcher at DINÂMIA'CET – ISCTE and coordinator of the Sonic Paradise project, has been invited to moderate the roundtable "What a Healthy Lisbon Nightlife Looks Like" at the Lisbon Dance Summit 2026.

The session will take place on 29 April at Fábrica de Unicórnios, in Marvila, bringing together ten professionals from across the nightlife, electronic music, and cultural sectors — including artists, promoters, cultural producers, photographers, and night-time economy specialists.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte is pleased to invite you to participate in the Research Seminar of the PhD in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories “Epicurus’ Letter to Pythocles and Celestial and Meteorological Phenomena. On Architecture”, to be held on April 20, 2026, at 3:00 PM, at Iscte, Building 2, Auditorium B302.

The exhibition Lucio Costa Archive draws on the personal collection of the renowned urban planner, which was donated by his family to the Casa da Arquitetura in 2021. Curated by Ana Vaz Milheiro in collaboration with Leonor Matos Silva (both researchers at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte), Lucio Costa Archive opens on 18 April at Casa da Arquitetura, with a programme featuring two days of free activities, and will run until 13 September 2026.

On 4 April, DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Alexandra Saraiva was interviewed on the SIC Notícias programme ‘Expresso Imobiliário’ to present the exhibition ‘Habitar Portugal 74|24’ on behalf of the curatorial team (Alexandra Saraiva, Célia Gomes, and Rui Leão).

The exhibition, on display at the CCB until 26 April, presents a panoramic overview in tribute to half a century of democracy in Portugal, thus serving as an important document for our country's contemporary history.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte and the publisher Tinta-da-China are pleased to announce the launch of the book Mulheres, Terra e Revolução, authored by Rita Calvário (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) and Cecília Honório (CHAM-NOVA FCSH).

The event will take place on 24 April 2026 at 7:00 PM, at Casa Capitão in Lisbon, and will be preceded at 6:00 PM by the screening of a documentary of the same name, directed by the authors.

The Youth Employment Observatory and the City-Regions Transitions Observatory participated today at the Iscte Open Day 2026. The activities, designed for highschool students, were organized and led by DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researchers João Loureiro (Youth Employment Observatory), and Teresa Marat-Mendes, (Coordinator of the City-Regions Transitions Observatory).

DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte thanks the involved researchers for their participation and commitment to bringing scientific research closer to a younger audience, inspiring and enlightening future generations of university students.

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).

The documentary Mulheres, Terra, Revolução (Women, Land, Revolution), authored by Rita Calvário (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) and Cecília Honório (CHAM-NOVA FCSH), has been officially selected to compete at two major film festivals, with April screenings honouring the legacy of the 25 April Revolution and the values of democracy.

CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios has opened an internal call for expressions of interest to form a new editorial team. DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte integrated researchers with contractual link to Iscte for a period of at least one year, are invited to submit an editorial proposal that includes the nomination of a Editor-in-chief, Deputy Editor and editorial board, as well as a strategic project for the development of the journal.