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Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território

NEWS AND EVENTS

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Book Launch, Roundtable, and ArchLabour Exhibition

01/04/2025

An event that is part of the ERC-ArchLabour project, 'Architecture, Colonialism and Labour. The role and legacy of mass labour in the design, planning and construction of Public Works in former African territories under Portuguese colonial rule'.

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Research Seminar on the Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories

25/03/2025

Tomorrow, at 3 PM, the Research Seminar on the Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories will take place in Auditorium 306 (Building 4 - CVTT).

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Coast to Coast: Book Launch, Roundtable, and Exhibition

25/03/2025

The A+I Research Group will promote an event at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon on April 1, 2025.

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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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Arquitectura Aqui – Collective-Use Facilities in Portugal and Spain 1939-1985

11/03/2025

On 26 March 2025, a public presentation of the platform Arquitectura Aqui – Community, Proximity, Action: Collective-Use Facilities in Portugal and Spain, 1939–1985 will be held at Iscte.

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First Homes2Live Storytelling Workshop

10/03/2025

On 15 March, the Homes2Live project invites the residents of Bairro das Amendoeiras to take part in a conversation about the neighbourhood.

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2024 Silva Leal Award

27/02/2025

The 2024 Silva Leal award was awarded to Ester Coelho de Oliveira, a Master’s student in Political Economy.

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Book Launch: Loures: As Casas da Revolução

24/02/2025

The launch of the book Loures: As Casas da Revolução will take place on 12 March at 5:30 PM at the Iscte Library.

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Desenhando Inovações Democráticas workshop

19/02/2025

The workshop Desenhando Inovações Democráticas (Drawing Domocratic Innovations)will be held at ISCTE on March 14th. Free admission, subject to prior registration (limited to 20 participants).

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Florinda Matos interview to Vida Rural

17/02/2025

Florinda Matos was interviewed by Vida Rural regarding the CERERE European project.

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CFP - Algorithmic frictions on platform urbanism: subjects, spaces and platforms

31/01/2025

The 'Algorithmic frictions on platform urbanism: subjects, spaces and platforms' is an in-person session that will take place within the RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK. 26-29 August 2025.

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Transforming for Sustainability: Anticipating Future Skills

29/01/2025

This event, within the scope of the Catalyst project and CoVE - Future Skills Factory, will take place at Iscte and online. 

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Hestnes Ferreira: Forma | Matéria | Luz Book Launch

22/01/2025

On January 25th at 4:30 PM, the book launch for Hestnes Ferreira: Forma | Matéria | Luz will take place in the MAC/CCB museum auditorium.


This event is associated with the Hestnes Ferreira: Forma | Matéria | Luz exhibition. The launch will include a conversation moderated by Alexandra Saraiva, with the participation of Alexandre Alves Costa, Bernardo Pizarro Miranda, Gonçalo Canto Moniz, Luís Martinho Urbano, and Michel Toussaint.

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Workshop: Imaginários urbanos e criação audiovisual

09/01/2025

Programme of activities under the framework of the UrbanoScenes project, running from 15 to 21 January 2025, in Luanda.

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Latest episode of the Podcast Diário de um Investigador

23/12/2024

Episode featuring Sónia Costa, a researcher and sociologist specializing in public policy evaluation and the tackling of poverty and social exclusion.

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Diário de um Investigador Podcast featuring Ricardo Paes Mamede

16/12/2024

Ricardo Paes Mamede is the invited researcher on the penultimate episode of this season of Diário de um Investigador podcast. In this discussion, Ricardo recounted his academic career and his research interest in the study of public policy.

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Diário de um Investigador Podcast featuring Eduardo Simões

09/12/2024

The 10th episode of the Diário de um Investigador podcast is now available. In this episode, our guest is Eduardo Simões, who discussed his career trajectory and his research interest in the power of ethics and negotiation, as well as health and well-being in organisations.

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The Research Project A bomba-relógio da abstenção awarded the 2024 Cyberjournalism Award

02/12/2024

The project A bomba-relógio da abstenção, developed by DIVERGENTE in partnership with the European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet) and DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, was distinguished as the best contribution in the Digital Infographics category at the 2024 Cyberjournalism Awards.

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"Housing as commons: sites of struggle and possibility" - New Issue of the CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios Journal

02/12/2024

'Housing as commons: sites of struggle and possibility', the new issue of the CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios'Journal, is now available.

The guest editors for this issue were Joana Pestana Lages and Saila-Maria Saaristo.

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Diário de um Investigador Podcast featuring Ana Brandão

18/11/2024

Another episode of the Diário de um Investigador podcast is now available: 

Designing the City with Crayons: Ana Brandão and the Planning of Public Spaces.

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Living in Lisbon. An Architectural View on Housing Challenges was awarded at the XIII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism.

13/11/2024

Living in Lisbon. An Architectural View on Housing Challenges received an award at the XIII Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura e Urbanismo.

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The book Living in Lisbon, authored by Marta Sequeira

08/11/2024

The book Living in Lisbon, authored by Marta Sequeira, has just been shortlisted in the prestigious XIII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIAU). The event, this year under the theme 'Climates', highlights influential architectural works and projects that engage with the contemporary challenges of urban and territorial practice in Ibero-American countries.

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Loures: As Casas da Revolução Exhibition

03/12/2024

Visit 'Loures: As Casas da Revolução' at the Arquivo Municipal de Loures, form November 2024 to April 2025, and get a unique perspective over the architecture and values that shaped democratic Portugal.

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Presentation session for the Hybgen Project Research findings

28/10/2024

Presentation Session for the HybGen Project Research findings on the challenges related to housing, employment, and mobility currently faced by young adults.

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Ana Vaz Milheiro in Público

24/10/2024

Público newspaper has published an opinion article by Ana Vaz Milheiro, which features a critique of the renovation of the Centre for Modern Art (CAM) at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.

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The Architecture of Need Conference at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

22/10/2024

'The Architecture of Need: Collective-Use Facilities and Community Service in the Twentieth Century Conference' will be held on 29 and 30 October 2024, in Room 2 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon.

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2nd Meeting of Editors of Academic Journals in the Social Sciences and Humanities

17/10/2024

The CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios journal hosted the second edition of the Meeting of Editors of Academic Journals in Social Sciences and Humanities, following on from the initiative launched by Aniki: Portuguese Journal of Moving Image, in 2023.

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Paulo Marques in a debate on the future of labour, promoted by Público and INATEL

15/10/2024

Paulo Marques was one of the invited speakers at the Conference The Future of Labour: 50 Years After the 25 April, an initiative organized by Público newspaper and INATEL.


Paulo Marques participated in the discussion panel dedicated to the theme 'Youth and Labour: Attitudes, Behaviours, and Opportunities'.

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DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte at the European Researchers' Night 2024 on 27 September

20/09/2024

Mapping and discussing primary school locations, and fostering neighbourly collaboration to enhance community life, are the activities that DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researchers will contribute to the 2024 European Researchers' Night.

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The book Os Grandes Trabalhos e o Desejo da Cidade de Exceção, by Paulo Tormenta Pinto and Ana Brandão.

17/09/2024

The Espaços & Casas magazine on SIC Notícias features the book Os Grandes Trabalhos e o Desejo da Cidade de Exceção, edited by Paulo Tormenta Pinto and Ana Brandão.

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New Policy Brief: Demand-Side Solutions for Tensions in Transitions

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Mulheres, Terra, Revolução, by Rita Calvário and Cecília Honório at the Olhares do Mediterrâneo – Women’s Film Festival

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Interview with Lucio Baccaro: Tourism should not be a country's sole engine of growth

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The book Os territórios da arquitetura e dos seus arquivos no contexto ibero-americano, is available online.

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The PeX (FCT) Call selects 3 projects from DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researchers

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Joana Pestana Lages awarded ERC Starting Grant.

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