The Arquiteturas Film Festival will take place from 1–4 July 2026 in Porto, Portugal. Organised by INSTITUTO and directed by architect Paulo Moreira, the festival was founded in 2013 and has since become a platform for debating and disseminating architecture in dialogue with the visual and spatial arts, critical thought, and interdisciplinary collaborations.

Joana Pestana Lages participated in the infographic report Barracas na área de Lisboa - o regresso de um problema que nunca desapareceu, (Shantytowns in the Lisbon area - the return of a problem that never went away) in the 28 september 2025 issue of Público.

3 national newspapers (CNN Portugal, TSF Rádio Notícias and Observador), have featured the subject of fare-free public transport, based on the chapter by Nuno Bento (DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte) and João Pereira, included in the report O Estado da Nação e as Políticas Públicas 2025, an IPPS-Iscte initiative coordinated by Pedro Adão e Silva.

This publication is the result of a collaboration between the Câmara Municipal de Cascais, CIDEHUS – Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades da Universidade de Évora, PPG-FAU-UnB – Programa de Pós-Graduação da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de Brasília, and DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte.

We are extremely proud to announce that three projects from DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researchers have been selected for funding by the FCT, within the 2024 Call for Exploratory Research Projects in all Scientific Domains.

Paulo Tormenta Pinto, director of DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte, will participate in the tribute session for Nuno Portas, which will take place at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto on September 23.

Joana Lages was featured in an article about the Housing Freedom project, in Diário de Notícias.

Open call for one (1) Research Grant (BI_06_2025) as part of the Scientific Research project titled 'Hyping Agriculture and Transit (HAT) in 15-minute Cities (15mC) – Food-growing public transport-orientated communities driving urban transitions as green Proximity Orientated Developments (PODs)´.

On October 21, 2025, at Fundação Oriente, the conference Sob o Mesmo Teto (Under the same Roof) will take place, addressing the topic of housing poverty and health.

The seminar Campus with a Future: The Role of Higher Education Institutions in the Transition to Sustainability will take place on September 23rd, as part of the Sustainability Week 2025, at Iscte.

Paulo Marques, coordinator of the Youth Employment Observatory, was interviewed on the November 10th edition of Negócios on Now channel, dedicated to the topic of labour legislation.

On September 8, 2025, Paulo Tormenta Pinto was sworn in as the Director of DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte for the 2025/2028 term.

This webinar will dive into leading practices in Sustainable Business Management, highlighting innovative strategies, practical tools, and real-world cases that integrate sustainability into core business operations. 

Paulo Marques was interviewed on the September 9th edition of the Fórum TSF dedicated to the topic of the government's proposed labour legislation reform.

Iscte will host the Inaugural Conference of the Master's and PhD Programmes in Political Economy on September 19th. The event will take place at Auditorium 306 (Building 4), from 2:30 to 5:30 PM.

The Seminar A Crise da Habitação nos Açores (Housing Crisis in the Azores) will take place on September 10th, 11th, and 12th in Ponta Delgada. The event will include a conference, workshops, and visits.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte will participate in NEI2025 – European Researchers Night with the activity Arquitetura Aqui na Escola: Onde Andou na Primária?, organized by researchers Ana Mehnert Pascoal, Ana Rosado, Catarina Ruivo, and Ricardo Agarez.

Joana Pestana Lages, integrated researcher at DINÂMIA’CET, won an ERC Starting Grant worth 1.5 million euros, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) to develop the Housing Freedom project for the next 5 years.

On September 18th, the session 'Asian (post)colonial works, labour and gender through the camera lens' will be held at the SAH Virtual conference. The session examines how photography intersects the histories of work, architecture, and gender in Asian (post)colonial contexts, particularly in Macau.

Rita Calvário, researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, will present the paper 'We women fought hard in the fields: rural women and the Portuguese Revolution' at the International Conference Rural History 2025. The event will be hosted by University of Coimbra from September 9th to 12th, 2025, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Faculty of Economics.

The Inaugural Lecture Comunicar Arquitetura! Sínteses da Cultura Arquitetônica (Communicate Architecture! Syntheses of Architectural Culture) will be presented by Paula André (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) on August 27th, at 7 PM. The event will take place at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at Mackenzie University (São Paulo).

On September 15, 2025, from 2:30 to 5:15 PM, the Conference Transição Digital nas Organizações - Que Impacto? (Digital Transition in Organizations - Which Impact?) will take place at Iscte, in Building 4 - Auditorium A302. The event is organized by Glória Rebelo (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte).

The Collaborative Laboratory: Dinâmicas Urbanas, Património, Artes. XI Seminário de Investigação, Ensino e Difusão (Urban Dynamics, Heritage, Arts), coordinated by Paula André (DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte), will hold its 11th edition on August 28 and 29, 2025, at Mackenzie Presbyterian University (São Paulo, Brazil).

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.