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Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies

RESEARCH THEMES

05

HISTORICAL AND 
POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES

Historical and post-colonial perspectives as cultural foundations for decoding the social production of space. Material and immaterial heritage underlies the debate on the ideological construction of the past.

RELATED PROJECTS
ERC-REArq.IB

2021 — 2026

European Research Council Starting Grant (GA949686)
ReARQ.IB - Built Environment Knowledge for Resilient, Sustainable Communities: Understanding Everyday Modern Architecture and Urban Design in the Iberian Peninsula (1939-1985)

F-ATLAS

2020 — 2024

Franciscan Landscapes: the Observance between Italy, Portugal and Spain

IC_PS

2020 — 2021

Critical Inventory of Socialist Party Local Policy Marks

Nuno Grancho - Scientific Employment Stimulus Individual Project

2019 — 2025

Asia on the move: two-way Processes, Data and Legacy of Architecture and Urbanism from former Portuguese Colonial Territories in South Asia

Printed photography. Image and propaganda in Portugal (1934-1974)

2017 — 2019

PTDC/CPC-HAT/4533/2014

Patrícia Bento d'Almeida - Pós-Doc

2017 — 2023

The Portuguese National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC) and the History of Research in Architecture

Inês Lima Rodrigues - Pós-Doc

2017 — 2023

Monographic Modern Trilogy: Vieira da Costa, Simões de Carvalho, Castro Rodrigues

RECON

2016 — 2019

The making of economics in Portugal: a study of Portuguese recent economic research (1980 to the present)

COAST TO COAST

2016 — 2019

Late Portuguese Infrastructural Development in Continental Africa (Angola and Mozambique): Critical and Historical Analysis and Postcolonial Assessment

LLM - Homes for the biggest number: Lisbon, Luanda, Macao

2013-2025

PTDC/ATP-AQI/3707/2012

The Site of Discourse

2013 — 2015

PTDC/CPC-HAT/4894/2012

The Colonial Urbanization Offices: Architectural Culture and Practice

2010 — 2013

PTDC/AUR-AQI/104964/2008

RELATED NEWS

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Interview with Maria Assunção Gato and Ana Brandão

03/05/2024

Interview with the project co-ordinators of Habitar a revolução: perspetivas sobre transformações sociais e produções espaciais a partir das casas ocupadas do bairro das Amendoeiras, em Lisboa (Inhabiting the revolution: perspectives on social transformations and spatial productions from the occupied houses of the Amendoeiras neighborhood in Lisbon). 

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Article in the Público concerning the launch of the book Os Grandes Trabalhos e o Desejo da Cidade de Exceção

22/04/2024

Article in Público concerning the launch of the book Os Grandes Trabalhos e o Desejo da Cidade de Exceção, by Paulo Tormenta Pinto and Ana Brandão. 

News

Africana Studia: Proceedings of the 1st Colonial and Post-Colonial Congress

29/03/2024

Special Issue of the Africana Studia Journal dedicated to the proceedings of the 1st Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes: Architecture, Cities, Infrastructures Congress.

Media

Ricardo Costa Agarez on Visita Guiada: 'Modernism in the Algarve'

23/10/2023

Ricardo Costa Agarez was the guest on the latest edition of the RTP programme Visita Guiada, focusing on the Modernist Architecture in Algarve in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Ricardo Costa Agarez: Modern Architecture in the Algarve

05/09/2023

'Arquitectura do Algarve: quando a tradição casava com o modernismo' (Architecture in the Algarve: when tradition met modernism): Article on the architect Ricardo Costa Agarez's latest book A Construção do Algarve –Arquitetura Moderna, Regionalismo e Identidade no Sul de Portugal (1925-1965)

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Exhibition on Hestnes Ferreira at Fundação Marques da Silva

14/03/2023

Until 29 of July, Fundação Marques da Silva, in Porto, will host the exhibition HESTNES FERREIRA – FORMA | MATÉRIA | LUZ, dedicated to architect Raul Hestnes Ferreira, curated by a group of DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researchers.

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Tiago Antunes on Sociedade Civil - RTP 2

01/04/2022

Tiago Antunes, an integrated researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte, was a guest speaker of RTP2 programme 'Sociedade Civil', on the subject of Stately Homes. This sow will air on 15 April, at 2 PM.

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New book on propaganda and images during Estado Novo

27/05/2020

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Paula André has recently co-authored with Filomena Serra and Sofia Leal Rodrigues the book Projectos Editoriais e Propaganda. Imagens e Contra-Imagens no Estado Novo. This work was produced within the project Printed photography - Image and propaganda in Portugal (1934-1974).

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Ilhas Selvagens

10/06/2019

Conference 'Selvagens - Ilhas Afortunadas' included the participation of Pedro Quartin Graça

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