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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
Andrea Pavoni - Scientific Employment Stimulus Individual Project

2019 — 2025

Uncomfortable Commons: the paradigm of comfort and the promise urban commons: a conceptual, critical and empirical exploration

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

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10th DATCM Colloquium

20/05/2025

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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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Arquitectura Aqui – Collective-Use Facilities in Portugal and Spain 1939-1985

11/03/2025

On 26 March 2025, a public presentation of the platform Arquitectura Aqui – Community, Proximity, Action: Collective-Use Facilities in Portugal and Spain, 1939–1985 will be held at Iscte.

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First Homes2Live Storytelling Workshop

10/03/2025

On 15 March, the Homes2Live project invites the residents of Bairro das Amendoeiras to take part in a conversation about the neighbourhood.

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Book Launch: Loures: As Casas da Revolução

24/02/2025

The launch of the book Loures: As Casas da Revolução will take place on 12 March at 5:30 PM at the Iscte Library.

News

CFP - Algorithmic frictions on platform urbanism: subjects, spaces and platforms

31/01/2025

The 'Algorithmic frictions on platform urbanism: subjects, spaces and platforms' is an in-person session that will take place within the RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK. 26-29 August 2025.

News

"Housing as commons: sites of struggle and possibility" - New Issue of the CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios Journal

02/12/2024

'Housing as commons: sites of struggle and possibility', the new issue of the CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios'Journal, is now available.

The guest editors for this issue were Joana Pestana Lages and Saila-Maria Saaristo.

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