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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
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

Collaborative Laboratory: Dinâmicas Urbanas, Património, Artes. XI Seminário de Investigação, Ensino e Difusão

30/07/2025

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).

Media

Lugar Comum - A Documentary, coordinated by Ana Brandão

30/06/2025

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.

News

Public Defense of the Doctoral Thesis by Susana Azevedo

27/06/2025

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

Event

15-Minute City in Practice - Insights from DUT Projects involving Portuguese-Based Partners

18/06/2025

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.

Event

Lugar Comum Seminar

20/05/2025

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.

Event

10th DATCM Colloquium

20/05/2025

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

Event

Open Seminar: The Blinded City

14/05/2025

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.

Event

UrbanoScenes: Final Project Event

14/05/2025

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

Event

Immaterial Matters: DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researchers at the 7th Lisbon Architecture Triennale

08/05/2025

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.

Event

Housing as Commons: Special Issue Launch

07/05/2025

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.

Event

Research Seminar on the Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories

25/03/2025

Tomorrow, at 3 PM, the Research Seminar on the Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories will take place in Auditorium 306 (Building 4 - CVTT).

Event

Ethno-Urban Reading, by Saila-Maria Saaristo

18/03/2025

Saila-Maria Saaristo will give a reading of The aesthetics of belonging: Indigenous urbanism and city building in oil-boom Luanda, by Claudia Gastrow (2024).

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