DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte congratulates Nuno Grancho on his selection as Visiting Professor, to teach during the Spring Semester of 2027, in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. The researcher will additionally collaborate with the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the same institution.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte has published the working paper entitled 'Financialisation of workers and the erosion of trade union density in the European Union', authored by Ricardo Barradas. This publication examines the erosion of trade union density for the last five decades all over the world, which has been contributing to a strong deterioration of labour conditions, a dizzying loss of labour rights, a proliferation of exploitative labour practices and a persistence of high levels of income inequality.

The video of the "A Minha Casa" conference, marking the 36th anniversary of the newspaper Público and featuring the participation of DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Sandra Marques Pereira, is now available for viewing. 

The sixth session of the Rede Tagus Research Cycle, entitled "Conversa #6 – Transição Climática e Sustentabilidade" (Talk #6 – Climate Transition and Sustainability), will take place on 24 March at 18:30, at the Nuno Teotónio Pereira Auditorium, at the Ordem dos Arquitectos headquarters, in Lisbon.

Florinda Matos, researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, has been recognized for her contribution to the Journal of Knowledge Management (JKM) as co-author of the article 'Digital Transformation: The Role of Generative AI in the Evolution of Knowledge Management Systems'.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte is pleased to invite you to the public presentation of Lorenzo Macagno's research project: 'Conexões entre arquitetura, antropologia e artes plásticas: um estudo de caso (Matalana, Moçambique)'.

The presentation will be held on 16 March 2026 at 10:00 at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, Building 4, Room B226.

DINÂMIA’CET-ISCTE is proud to announce the successful public defence of Eduardo Corales's doctoral thesis, entitled "POWERPOINT: Infraestrutura hidroelétrica em Portugal e o território como projeto”, held this past 3 March 2026, at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.

Marking the 36th anniversary of the Público newspaper, a new article by Andreia Sanches, titled 'As Casas Portuguesas Democratizaram-se – do quarto da criada às cozinhas abertas', highlights an analysis by Sandra Marques Pereira (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) on the relationship between the evolution of architecture and changing modes of dwelling in Portugal.

As part of the International Women's Day commemorations, the documentary Mulheres, Terra, Revolução (Women, Land, Revolution) — authored by Rita Calvário (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) and Cecília Honório — will have two scheduled screenings over the coming week.

The latest issue of CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios is out, with 9 original articles and 2 essays on the subject of Urban Rivers.

The fifth session of the Rede Tagus Research Cycle, entitled "Conversa #5 - Paisagem e Ecologias Urbanas" (Talk #5 - Landscape and Urban Ecologies), will take place on 10 March at 18:30, at the Nuno Teotónio Pereira Auditorium, at the Ordem dos Arquitectos headquarters, in Lisbon.

As part of the celebrations marking the 36th anniversary of the Público newspaper, DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Sandra Marques Pereira will join the panel of speakers at the A Minha Casa Conference, participating in the discussion panel entitled 'A minha casa é a cidade'.

Bringing together Brazilian, Portuguese and other national researchers, the 'VI International Meeting of the All the Arts Network | All the Names', which will take place in the city of Porto, on July 13th and 14th, 2026, proposes to reflect on the place of popular culture and the aesthetics of "bad taste" in contemporary cultures. Abstract Submission - from November 10 to March 15, 2026

Routledge has published the book entitled Governing Solidarity in European Labour Markets: Atypical Employment and Minimum Wage Reform in Spain and Portugal, edited by Paulo Marques — researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte and coordinator of the Youth Employment Observatory — in collaboration with researchers Rui Branco, Óscar Molina, and Renato Miguel Carmo.

Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon will host the Seminar Series Culturas do Habitar: celebrando os 100 anos da Cozinha Frankfurt (1926) — integrated into the Theory and History of Architecture V curricular unit and coordinated by DINÂMIA'CET researcher Paula André in the Integrated Master's in Architecture at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon, from 3 March to 19 May 2026

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.

DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte announces the publication of the Policy Paper entitled Qualitative Evaluation of Innovation Ecosystems: Example Portugal, co-authored by Isabel Salavisa, DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researcher, in collaboration with Bernardete Ribeiro, José Ferreira Machado, Martin Zadražil, Vito Di Noto, Ralf B. Wehrspohn, and Ehrenfried Zschech.

To mark the publication of his new chapter “Public Shared Places and Private Absent Divides. Identity and Space of Colonial Urbanism under Portuguese, French, and Danish Rules: Diu, Pondicherry, and Tranquebar” in the Routledge Companion to Art and Challenges to Empire, the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen interviewed Nuno Grancho, researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte.

The fourth session of the Rede Tagus Research Cycle, entitled "Conversa #4 - Governança Urbana e Políticas Públicas" (Talk #4 - Urban Governance and Public Policies), will take place on 24 February at 18:30, at the Nuno Teotónio Pereira Auditorium, at the Ordem dos Arquitectos headquarters, in Lisbon.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte marks today, 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day established by the United Nations with the aim of recognizing women’s contribution to the advancement of scientific knowledge and promoting full, equal, and sustainable participation in science, by sharing a Ministério da Educação post with the reflections of Joana Lages, a researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte, on the challenges and the importance of asserting women’s place within the scientific community in Portugal.

The 3rd edition of the International Congress 'Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes' will take place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, from 11 to 13 February 2026. Following the questioning of Architecture, Cities and Infrastructures (2019) and Architecture, Colonialism and War (2023) in previous editions, this edition will focus on Architecture, Cities, and Labour.

Alexandra Saraiva, researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, has been invited by the newspaper Público, representing the curatorial team of Habitar Portugal 74|24, to the closing session of the conference ‘Urbe: que caminho para Portugal?’, which will take place on 12 February at the Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB).

The article ‘Aligning active labor market policies with national growth strategies: a comparative study of Portugal and Spain’, co-authored by Paulo Marques (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher and coordinator of the Youth Employment Observatory) and Pedro Videira (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher) has been published by Cambridge University Press in the Journal of Public Policy.

The third session of the Rede Tagus Research Cycle, entitled "Conversa #3 - Inclusão e Justiça Social" (Talk #3 - Inclusion and Spatial Justice), will take place on 10 February at 18:30, at the Nuno Teotónio Pereira Auditorium, at the Ordem dos Arquitectos headquarters, in Lisbon.

The El Salto company presents the production 'Dar o Couro' (D'Arrache Corps) on 5 and 6 March 2026, at Teatro Avenidas – Um teatro em cada bairro.

The call for papers for the II Seminar 'Tecnopolíticas da Participação: Panoramas das Polítícas e Práticas Habitacionais Contra-hegemónicas nos Contextos Brasileiro e Português' deadline has been extended to 10 February 2026, at 18:00 (Brasília Time).

Ana Mehnert Pascoal’s chapter ‘Between Hierarchy, Efficiency and Pragmatism: Picturing Portuguese Government Offices in Historic Buildings during the Estado Novo Dictatorship’ has been published by Leuven University Press in the open-acess book Behind Office Doors. Use and Users in the History of Office Buildings, edited by Jens van de Maele.

The documentary Mulheres, Terra, Revolução (Women, Land, Revolution), authored by Rita Calvário (resarcher at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) and Cecília Honório, will be screened at Sede do Grupo Coral “Os Papa Borregos de Alvito, at Rua das Pereiras, 6, Alvito, on February 28th, at 2:30 p.m.

The working meeting titled 'Precarization of Labour and Obstetric Racism' will take place on 9 Februray 2026, at Iscte, Building 4, Room A104, from 3.00 PM to 6.00 PM.

Rita Calvário, researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, and Cecília Honório will present the Conference ‘Mulheres Rurais na Reforma Agrária’, within the framework of the Gendered power relations in agriculture: how rural women are facing gender inequality and struggling for more just and sustainable agri-food systems – the case of Portugal research project.