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Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território

RESEARCH THEMES

05

HISTORICAL AND 
POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES

Historical and post-colonial perspectives as cultural foundations for decoding the social production of space. Material and immaterial heritage underlies the debate on the ideological construction of the past.

RELATED PROJECTS
LabourMap-Macao

2025 — 2025

Mass labour impact on Public Works in Macau under Portuguese administration (1849-1999)

O lugar da Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves

2024 — 2024

Levantamento documental, conceção e redação do discurso da exposição "O lugar da Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves”: Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves

NPN – Novo Portugal Novo

2024 — 2024

Portugal Novo Housing Scheme – Study

ERC-ArchLabour

2024 — 2029

Architecture, Colonialism and Labour. The role and legacy of mass labour in the design, planning and construction of Public Works in former African territories under Portuguese colonial rule

RETRANSLATES

2023 — 2025

Reflexiones, desde Europa, sobre la arquitectura en España: proyectos urbanos, equipamientos publicos, diseño e intervenciones en el patrimonio (1976-2006)

MHHPI

2023 — 2029

Beyond Modern Housing Heritage of Portuguese Influence, an Optimistic Architecture for Living. Comparative and Multi-Situated Perspectives on Modern Dwellings and Surroundings

WomArchStruggle

2023 — 2024

Women architects in former Portuguese colonial Africa: gender and struggle for professional recognition (1953-1985)

ExPORT

2023 — 2025

Exporting Portugal: Estado Novo cultural diplomacy and rebranding strategies in the United States (1933-1974)

UrbanoScenes

2022 — 2025

UrbanoScenes. Post-colonial imaginaries of urbanisation: A future-oriented investigation from Portugal and Angola

2021.02417.CEECIND

2022 — 2028

Learning from the past: the importance of former housing participatory production for the coming years

SIZA

2021 — 2024

The Critical Monumentality of Álvaro Siza: Projects of urban renovation after the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition (Expo98)

ARCHWAR

2021 — 2024

Dominance and mass-violence through Housing and Architecture during colonial wars. The Portuguese case (Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Mozambique): colonial documentation and post-independence critical assessment

RELATED NEWS

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Comparative Approaches of Fast 360-degree Video-Based Survey of Inaccessible Heritage, by Rolando Volzone and Francesca Galasso

17/10/2025

In this work, the authors explored innovative 360-degree video-based survey methods for documenting fragile and inaccessible heritage sites, aiming to test how different camera paths (from simple perimeter walks to more complex trajectories) can influence the balance between speed, accuracy, and detail in 3D reconstructions.

Event

Mulheres, Terra, Revolução, by Rita Calvário and Cecília Honório at the Olhares do Mediterrâneo – Women’s Film Festival

14.10.2025

The documentary Mulheres, Terra, Revolução (Women, Land, Revolution), by Rita Calvário (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) and Cecília Honório will be screened at the Olhares do Mediterrâneo – Women’s Film Festival on 28 October at 6 P.M., at the Aljube Museum, in Lisbon.

News

Asian (post)colonial works, labour and gender through the camera lens

04/09/2025

On September 18th, the session 'Asian (post)colonial works, labour and gender through the camera lens' will be held at the SAH Virtual conference. The session examines how photography intersects the histories of work, architecture, and gender in Asian (post)colonial contexts, particularly in Macau.

News

Rita Calvário at the International Conference Rural History 2025

03/09/2025

Rita Calvário, researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, will present the paper 'We women fought hard in the fields: rural women and the Portuguese Revolution' at the International Conference Rural History 2025. The event will be hosted by University of Coimbra from September 9th to 12th, 2025, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Faculty of Economics.

Event

Inaugural Lecture: Comunicar Arquitetura! Sínteses da Cultura Arquitetônica

25/08/2025

The Inaugural Lecture Comunicar Arquitetura! Sínteses da Cultura Arquitetônica (Communicate Architecture! Syntheses of Architectural Culture) will be presented by Paula André (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) on August 27th, at 7 PM. The event will take place at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at Mackenzie University (São Paulo).

News

Public Defense of the Doctoral Thesis by Filipe Nassauer Mónica

16/07/2025

Public defense of the Doctoral Thesis by Filipe Nassauer Mónica

Event

Conference: Do Alto das Picoas à Casa Prego: viagens do olhar em torno de uma resistência, by Paula André.

08/07/2025

The conference Do Alto das Picoas à Casa Prego: Viagens do olhar em torno de uma Resistência (From Alto das Picoas to Casa Prego: An observer's journeys around Resistance), by Paula André, will be presented on July 15th at 6 PM in the PLMJ auditorium.

News

CfP III International Congress Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes

06/05/2025

The 3rd International Congress on Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes will take place in Lisbon, from 11 to 13 February 2026.

News

Book Launch, Roundtable, and ArchLabour Exhibition

01/04/2025

An event that is part of the ERC-ArchLabour project, 'Architecture, Colonialism and Labour. The role and legacy of mass labour in the design, planning and construction of Public Works in former African territories under Portuguese colonial rule'.

Event

Coast to Coast: Book Launch, Roundtable, and Exhibition

25/03/2025

The A+I Research Group will promote an event at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon on April 1, 2025.

Media

Interview with Maria Assunção Gato and Ana Brandão

03/05/2024

Interview with the project co-ordinators of Habitar a revolução: perspetivas sobre transformações sociais e produções espaciais a partir das casas ocupadas do bairro das Amendoeiras, em Lisboa (Inhabiting the revolution: perspectives on social transformations and spatial productions from the occupied houses of the Amendoeiras neighborhood in Lisbon). 

Media

Article in the Público concerning the launch of the book Os Grandes Trabalhos e o Desejo da Cidade de Exceção

22/04/2024

Article in Público concerning the launch of the book Os Grandes Trabalhos e o Desejo da Cidade de Exceção, by Paulo Tormenta Pinto and Ana Brandão. 

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