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Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território

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
Covid Gender: Projeto 121.

2020 — 2020

Como ficar em casa? Intervenções imediatas de combate à Covid-19 em bairros precários da AML

LXHABIDATA

2020 — 2020

LXHABIDATA - Públicos vulneráveis

Joana Lages - Scientific Employment Stimulus Individual Project

2020 — 2026

(Re)housing. exploring innovative solutions to accommodate the urban poor

LXHABIDATA

2019 —

LXHABIDATA

COST ACTION 18137

2019 — 2023

European Middle Class Mass Housing

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

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

RELATED NEWS

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).

Event

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.

Event

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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