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Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies

RESEARCH THEMES

03

HOUSING
AND URBAN DYNAMICS

Housing dynamics and their socioeconomic and urban effects. The political response to the recent crisis in this area requires a comprehensive debate on new territorialities, habitat quality and forms of organising and producing public and domestic spaces.

RELATED PROJECTS
Homes2live

2025 — 2025

Inhabiting the Revolution: Perspectives on social transformations and spatial production from the squatted houses of Amendoeiras neighbourhood, in Lisbon

All@Cityscape

2025 — 2029

All@Cityscape

GEBALIS

2025 — 2025

GEBALIS - Impact evaluation

HAT

2025 — 2028

Hyping Agriculture and Transit (HAT) in 15-minute Cities (15mC) – Food-growing public transport-oriented communities driving urban transitions as green Proximity Oriented Developments (PODs)

Technopolitics

2024 — 2026

Technopolitics of Participation - Overview of counter-hegemonic housing policies and practices in the Brazilian and Portuguese contexts

2023.07870.CEECIND

2024 - 2031

Displaced Survival and Neoliberalism from below. The Nexus of Migration, Labour, and Housing Struggles of Migrant Women in Portugal and Angola

HybGen

2024 — 2024

Young generations trapped in hybrid lifestyles: Challenges in ways of living and working towards the urban green care in Lisbon and Oslo

SOLVE-H

2024 — 2027

SOLVE-H - Mapping social value of
participation in collaborative housing: From
a knowledge-based to evidence-based
perspective

RESTART

2023 — 2025

Making visible public space in the extensive city: mapping challenges and opportunities for the urban transition

N.A.

2022 — 2023

Socioeconomic characterization of households residing in the neighborhoods of Portugal Novo, Horizonte and Cooperativas do Beato

Sandra Marques Pereira - Scientific Employment Stimulus Individual Project

2022 —

Sandra Marques Pereira - Scientific Employment Stimulus Individual Project

SIZA_3CITY

2022 — 2024

Álvaro Siza’s collective housing: projects, contexts and experiences (Porto-Lisbon-New York)

RELATED NEWS

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Alexandra Saraiva, representing the curatorial team of Habitar Portugal 74|24, at the conference 'Urbe: que caminho para Portugal?'

10/02/2026

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).

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Rede Tagus Research Cycle: Talk #3 dedicated to Inclusion and Spatial Justice

05/02/2026

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.

News

Call for Papers - II Seminar 'Tecnopolíticas de Participação'

04/02/2026

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).

Media

Entrecampus 11 is out now, featuring Teresa Marat-Mendes

07/01/2026

The 11th edition of Iscte's magazine Entrecampus is now out, featuring DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte Integrated Researcher Teresa Marat-Mendes.

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The European commitment to affordable housing. An urgent challenge? Sandra Marques Pereira on TSF

05/01/2026

In the 23 December edition of TSF’s ‘Na ordem do dia’ programme, DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researcher Sandra Marques Pereira examined the European Affordable Housing Plan and its impact on national and local housing policies, with an emphasis on the Portuguese context

Media

Essay by Sandra Marques Pereira: “Build-to-rent: a panacea for the housing crisis or its accelerator?”

12/12/2025

In today's edition of Expresso, Sandra Marques Pereira, authors a feature essay in the Ideias supplement, critically analysing the build-to-rent housing policies.

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Care(4)Housing: Final Presentation

10/12/2025

We invite you to the Final Presentation of the Care(4)Housing project – A care through design approach to address housing precarity, funded by FCT (PTDC/ART-DAQ/0181/2021). The presentation will be held on 15 December at 16:30, at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Building 4, Floor 3, Auditorium A302.

News

DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte marks the passing of architect Frank Gehry by sharing the lecture “Frank Urbanism: Gehry Takes Up Cities” delivered by Jean-Louis Cohen

09/12/2025

DINÂMIA’CET marks the passing of architect Frank Gehry on December 5 by sharing the lecture “Frank Urbanism: Gehry Takes Up Cities” delivered by Jean-Louis Cohen (1949–2023) at the International Congress “Grand Projects – Urban Legacies of the Late 20th Century” (2019).

News

'Ways of Inhabiting and Perceiving an Álvaro Siza House' – by Sandra Marques Pereira, Tânia Lemos, Idalina Machado and Leandro Arez

28/11/2025

DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researchers Sandra Marques Pereira and Tânia Lemos co-authored the chapter ‘Ways of Inhabiting and Perceiving an Álvaro Siza House’ with Idalina Machado and Leandro Arez, for the Routlegde Handbook of Architecture and Anthropology.

Media

‘José Maneiras (1935-2025), um inventor da arquitectura macaense?’ – New article by Ana Vaz Milheiro in the newspaper Público

26/10/2025

New article by Ana Vaz Milheiro on the work and life of the architect José Maneiras as a central figure in Macanese architecture, is now available in the November 26, 2025 edition of the newspaper Público.

Photography by António Mil Homens.

News

Housing Exclusion and Mental Health: Lídia Fernandes co-authors a new chapter for the thematic dossier Comportamentos Aditivos e Margens, coordinated by Vasco Calado

25/11/2025

DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researcher Lídia Canha Fernandes, co-authored the chapter Exclusão Habitacional, Saúde Mental e Novas Substâncias Psicoativas (Housing Exclusion, Mental Health and New Psychoactive Substances), with Paulo Vitorino Fontes, Hélder Fernandes, and João Mendes Coelho, for the thematic dossier Comportamentos Aditivos e Margens, coordinated by Vasco Calado.

News

How does co-creating the stories of public facilities help to reimagine architecture as a collective practice?

24/11/2025

The International Journal of Public History has published the article Towards a Public Architectural History: Collective-Use Facilities and Community Engagement in Portugal and Spain, developed by researchers from DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte – Ricardo Costa Agarez, Ana Mehnert Pascoal and Ivonne Herrera-Pineda.

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