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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
NT SMP

2018 — 2022

Sandra Marques Pereira - 'Norma Transitória' Individual Project

The Grand Projects

2018 — 2022

Architectural and Urbanistic Operations after the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition

MCMH

2018 — 2022

Middle Class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa and Asia

National Fund for Building Rehabilitation

2018 — 2018

National Fund for Building Rehabilitation

Ana Silva Fernandes - Pós-Doc

2017 — 2020

Common Spaces. Between public works and self-produced housing: collective mobilization for urban qualification in Mozambique

SPLACH

2017 — 2021

Spatial planning for change

REV

2014 — 2015

Rester en Ville

Transformação da estrutura social e urbana das áreas Metropolitanas de Lisboa e do Porto no período de 1950 a 2011

2014 — 2024

Transformação da estrutura social e urbana das áreas Metropolitanas de Lisboa e do Porto no período de 1950 a 2011

PERIURBAN

2012 — 2015

Peri-urban areas facing sustainability challenges: scenario development in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon

RELATED NEWS

Event

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.

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.

Media

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.

Event

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.

Media

Issue 50 of the journal CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios

21/10/2025

The latest issue of CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios is out, including a thematic dossier on Urban Rivers.

Event

Arquitectura Aqui – Community, Proximity, Action: Collective Use Equipment in Portugal and Spain 1939-1985, with Ricardo Costa Agarez

13/11/2025

On 18 November 2025, Ricardo Costa Agarez will present and discuss the Arquitectura Aqui initiative at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Building 4, Auditorium 306, at 6 P.M., marking the conclusion of the first semester of the Doctoral Programme in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories 2025/2026.

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