Applicants enrolled and registered in the PhD Programme in Urban Studies can apply for research grants offered by Iscte.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte presents a vote of condolence on the passing of architect Nuno Portas, who passed away on Sunday, July 27, 2025.

The journal CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios has just released issue 49 (July 2025), which includes the thematic dossier Between the Digital and the Urban: Readings of Space in Transformation, organized by Isabel Cristina Carvalho, Sílvia Leiria Viegas, Adriana Nascimento, and Tamara Tania Cohen Egler.

An article by Raquel Martins in Público, in collaboration with Paulo Marques, a researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte and coordinator of the Youth Employment Observatory.

Public defense of the Doctoral Thesis by Filipe Nassauer Mónica

The conference Do Alto das Picoas à Casa Prego: Viagens do olhar em torno de uma Resistência (From Alto das Picoas to Casa Prego: An observer's journeys around Resistance), by Paula André, will be presented on July 15th at 6 PM in the PLMJ auditorium.

Applicants enrolled and registered in the interdisciplinary PhD Programme in Political Economy for the 2025/2026 academic year can apply for research grants provided by Iscte.

Rita Calvário, researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, will participate as guest speaker at the International Workshop ‘Transforming Agri Food Systems in Rural/Urban Contexts', which will take place at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, in Berlin, on July 10th and 11th, 2025.

Lugar Comum is a DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte research project, coordinated by Ana Brandão, that focuses on public spaces and public life in the metropolitan and extensive city. It examines how these places are formed, used, managed, and transformed, giving visibility to everyday practices and spaces to understand the production of the built environment and to debate future challenges.

Doctoral Thesis on Architecture and Health: The Role of the Built Environment in Healthy Aging.

Rita Calvário, researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, will participate as a guest lecturer at the International Summer School of Political Ecology 2025 'Strategies for a Just Green Transition', which will take place at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, from June 30 to July 4.

Hosted by DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, the event is the flagship scientific conference of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN), bringing together leading international researchers and practitioners to explore the theme 'Tensions and Trade-Offs in Structural Changes for Sustainability Transitions'.

The Scientific Meeting 15-Minute City in Practice - Insights from DUT Projects involving Portuguese-Based Partners will foster a debate among the Portuguese participants of the DUT projects, including the HAT - Agriculture and Mobility in 15-Minute Cities project.

Results of the Iscte 2024 R&D Awards.

The webinar with Zuzana Janková, moderated by Ana Brochado, will take place on June 4th, at 6 PM, 

The 10th DATCM Colloquium will take place on May 26th and 29th, 2025.

The Seminar Lugar Comum (Common Place) will take place on June 4th, at 6 PM, featuring a presentation of research findings conducted in the municipalities of Almada and Odivelas and extending the discussion to the AML.

The final event of the Urbanoscenes project will take place on May 26th, at Casa da Achada, Lisbon.

On May 22nd, at 2 PM, an open seminar will take place, presented by Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon (U. Witwatersrand, South Africa), titled The Blinded City: Dispossession and Urban Belonging in Johannesburg. The event will be held at Iscte, Building 4, room B320.

The fourth edition of the Political Ecology Meeting will take place in Coimbra and Lisbon in May and June 2025, with the participation of DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Rita Calvário.

Immaterial Matters: Unveiling the Presence of the Invisible has been selected as one of the six finalists of the Universities Competition for the 7th Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2025.

Webinar | Special Issue Launch of Housing as Commons: Sites of Struggle and Possibility. Presentations by contributing authors and commentary by Melissa García-Lamarca (LUCSUS, Sweden), 19 May 2025.

The 3rd International Congress on Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes will take place in Lisbon, from 11 to 13 February 2026.

Presentation and discussion of diverse works by researchers from DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte's Governance, Economy, and Citizenry Research Group.

The paper Digitally Fabricated Future was one of the selected works for this year's FORMA Awards, the National Architecture Awards in Portugal, an initiative of the IF.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte Awarded an 'Excellent' Rating in the FCT's R&D Units Evaluation

The V Encontro Internacional Lusófono Todas as Artes | Todos os Nomes Network (All Arts | All Names) will be held in Porto from June 30th to July 2nd, 2025. The event will focus on the role of Artificial Intelligence in contemporary times, specifically regarding artistic creation, cultural policies, and other social science research.

The DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte Catalyst project team has launched a comprehensive suite of eight new training courses within CATALYST network. Designed to foster professional development across varying stages of expertise, the new portfolio offers curriculum options at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.

Nuno Grancho will be Wüstenrot Foundation Fellow 2025 next June/July.

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'.