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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.