We are extremely proud to announce that three projects  from DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researchers  have been selected for funding by the FCT  (Foundation for Science and Technology) within the 2024 Call for Exploratory Research Projects in All Scientific Domains. The approval of these projects demonstrates the relevance of the research  developed at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, thereby strengthening our position in the national scientific landscape. The selected projects are: . “Urbanização Wireless (URB-WI): O ambiente construído das telecomunicações, mapear a implantação territorial da Companhia Portuguesa Rádio Marconi - CPRM, 1925-1995”  (Wireless Urbanisation (URB-WI): The built environment of telecommunications, mapping the territorial implementation of Companhia Portuguesa Rádio Marconi - CPRM, 1925-1995), coordinated by Researcher Alexandra Areia . “Culturas Urbanas Radicais. Explorando as ecologias políticas dos entrelaçamentos urbano-alimento-solo no Antropoceno através do Vinho Natural”  (Radical Urban Cultures. Exploring the political ecologies of urban-food-soil entanglements in the Anthropocene through Natural Wine), coordinated by Researcher Andrea Pavoni . . “Uma abordagem socio-espacial aos bairros CAR nas áreas metropolitanas de Lisboa e Porto”  (A socio-spatial approach to CAR neighbourhoods in the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto), coordinated by Researcher Teresa Marat-Mendes . DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte congratulates the researchers and their teams on this success!

Three news articles — published by CNN Portugal, TSF, and Observador — highlight the topic of free public transport, featured in a chapter authored by Nuno Bento (researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte) and João Pereira for the report O Estado da Nação e as Políticas Públicas 2025 (The State of the Nation and Public Policies 2025). The report is an initiative of IPPS-Iscte, coordinated by Pedro Adão e Silva. “Gratuitidade do transporte público pode ser eficaz a vários níveis” CNN Portugal – 25/09/2025 “Estudo revela que gratuitidade do transporte público pode ser eficaz a vários níveis” Observador – 25/09/2025 “Estudo defende que transporte público gratuito pode ser eficaz a vários níveis” TSF – 25/09/2025 Read the report: O Estado da Nação e as Políticas Públicas 2025

The 13th edition of the Arquiteturas Film Festival, themed “Urban Age”, turns its attention to the lived experience of urbanisation – from the material forms of architecture to the social and cultural dynamics that define contemporary cities. This edition seeks films that explore the many dimensions of urban life: housing, infrastructure, public space, informality, environmental change, and social reproduction. The Arquiteturas Film Festival has interest  in works that expose the contradictions of the city as a space of both opportunity and exclusion, solidarity and conflict, precarity and imagination. The festival invites cinematic practices that highlight the embodied, emotional, and political dimensions of urbanisation – engaging with questions of race, class, gender, and ecology to rethink what it means to live together in the urban age. Submissions are open to films of any kind – documentary, fiction, or experimental – and of any duration, short or feature-length. An interdisciplinary committee will curate the programme in collaboration with the festival’s organiser, INSTITUTO. Films must be submitted via Film Freeway by 2 November 2025. Alongside film screenings, the festival will host talks, tours, and installations, creating opportunities for in-depth discussion around the themes and research behind the films. 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. The Call for Entries is open until 2 November 2025, 23:59 GMT.   Submissions must include a secure online screener, a synopsis, one to three high-resolution stills, and brief production details (including the team, a short bio, and any relevant social media handles). The Selection Committee of the 13th edition of the Arquiteturas Film Festival is composed of Andrea Pavoni , Joana Pestana Lages , Mira Samonig and Sofia Borges. The Jury includes Gustavo Imigrante, João Queirós, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou, Luís Tavares Pereira and Rute Nieto Ferreira.   + info

Following the participation of DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researchers   Inês Nascimento , Raquel Lopes , Lorenzo Stefano Iannizzotto   and Elian Stefa , under the scientific coordination of Alexandra Paio , in the Prémio Universidades da Trienal de Arquitetura de Lisboa Millennium , the project Immaterial Matters  was selected for the final shortlist of six projects and is currently on display at Garagem Sul – CCB, as part of the exhibition Lighter . Lighter  charts a path through experiments with new models of material policies and processes, as they interact with rapidly changing ecosystems. The shortlisted projects were developed in collaboration with the Triennale’s curatorial team, forming part of the main exhibitions — Fluxes , Spectres , and Lighter  — inaugurated between 2 and 4 October. The winners in each category — Master’s and Research — were announced on 4 October and received an award designed by Álvaro Siza, produced from marble waste sourced in Estremoz. In total, 35 submissions were received from 18 universities, including seven from Portugal. The selection, made by a collective composed of Carla Leitão, Cruz Garcia, Dubravka Sekulić, Nick Axel, and the 2025 Triennale curatorial team, values critical and open approaches to contemporary architectural practice, under the theme Make it Lighter .

We are happy to share the new publication 'Comparative Approaches of Fast 360-degree Video-Based Survey of Inaccessible Heritage,' by the researchers Rolando Volzone  (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte) and Francesca Galasso (Università di Pavia). 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. The case study focused on the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Saudação in Montemor-o-Novo (Portugal), a site whose fragile condition makes it a powerful example for fast yet reliable digital documentation. The article was published in the International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences as part of the 30th CIPA Heritage Documentation   Symposium (Seoul, 2025). Read it here:   https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLVIII-M-9-2025/511/2025/

The chapter 'Salários dos Jovens em Portugal' (Youth Wages in Portugal), by Paulo Marques , Rita Guimarães and Alexandre Mergulhão has been published in the book Salário Digno em Portugal: Da necessidade à possibilidade de uma política , coordinated by José António Pereirinha and Elvira Pereira. The wages earned by young people have become a topic of significant interest in public and academic debate in Portugal, particularly regarding the salaries of qualified youth. This is because, over the last two decades, there has been a deterioration in wages, specifically concerning the earnings of graduates. This chapter examines this topic in detail. The main purpose of this chapter is to describe the evolution of youth wages over the 2002–2021 period, as well as the main indicators regarding labour income inequality. Furthermore, taking into account the academic literature on the subject, the chapter relates the issue of wages to a set of other dimensions, namely: education, economic sectors, and labour market institutions. The book is available here

The scientific meeting, "15-Minute City in Practice - Insights from DUT Projects involving Portuguese-Based Partners,"  will take place on July 10, 2025, from 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM at the University of Aveiro (UA) - Department of Social, Political, and Territorial Sciences (DCSPT) - Amphitheater 12.1.19. This event, which will promote debate among the Portuguese participants of the DUT projects—including "HAT - Agriculture and Mobility in 15-Minute Cities"—is coordinated by Professor Teresa Marat-Mendes. Full Program

Fotografia por: Hugo Alexandre Cruz/Iscte On September 8, 2025, Paulo Tormenta Pinto was sworn in as the Director of DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte for the 2025/2028 term. Paulo Tormenta Pinto is a Full Professor and has held various leadership positions at Iscte, including director of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism and deputy director of the School of Technologies and Architecture. He also founded the PhD program "Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories" and the journal Passagens . Fotografia por: Hugo Alexandre Cruz/Iscte   The new DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte Board of Directors is composed of Deputy Directors Joana Pestana Lages and Nuno Bento, who are Integrated Researchers at the Unit. Ana Costa, Paulo Marques, Teresa Marat-Mendes, along with Integrated Researcher Rolando Volzone, make up the Unit's Scientific Committee. Fotografia por: Hugo Alexandre Cruz/Iscte DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte welcomes the new Deputy Directors and Scientific Committee and thanks the previous commitees, whose terms are now ending, for their work and dedication.

Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves House-Museum; Model: Model of the surrounding area Boundaries: Avenida Duque d’Ávila, Rua Filipe Folque, Rua de São Sebastião da Pedreira, Rua Viriato, Rua Andrade Corvo, Avenida Duque de Loulé, Rua da Escola de Medicina Veterinária, Avenida dos Defensores de Chaves; Scale: 1/1000; Conception: João Sousa and Teresa Rodeia (Vitruvius FabLab-Iscte) Data: CIUL-CML Data Processing: Carla Duarte (Dinâmia’cet-Iscte) 3D Model: Margarida Bessa Concept: Paula André (Dinâmia’cet-Iscte) As part of the exhibition "Vizinhanças: ausências e presenças em torno da Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves"   (Neighborhoods: Absences and presences around the Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves House-Museum) , and to kick off the exhibition's conference series, a lecture will be presented on July 15th at 6:00 PM  in the PLMJ auditorium (Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, nº 43, ground floor). The conference, titled " Do Alto das Picoas à Casa Prego: viagens do olhar em torno de uma resistência"  will be delivered by Paula André  (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte). The Conference Starting from the 19th-century expansion of Lisbon, the urban morphology of the Picoas Site, and a "radiographic" gaze that cross-references different sources (maps, projects, photographs, magazines, newspapers, films), the conference seeks to unveil the palimpsests and built environments of the place where the painter José Malhoa's Atelier House was built—the origin of the current Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves House-Museum, which, through its resistance, is now considered a "Casa Prego"  (Nail House) . This journey will be supported by the operational concepts of palimpsest (André Corboz), environmental pre-existences (Ernesto Rogers), and the interested use of history (Fernando de Terán), with the goal of showcasing the various layers and lives of certain constructions that are associated with different authorships and architectural expressions, all while understanding the city as a living organism. The Exhibition Inaugurating the commemorations of the 120th anniversary of the Valmor Prize being awarded to the José Malhoa Atelier House, the exhibition "Vizinhanças: ausências e presenças em torno da Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves"  seeks to unveil and reveal the breaks and continuities of the surroundings of the José Malhoa Atelier House—the 1905 Valmor Prize winner—and the subsequent Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves House-Museum. Research in the Lisbon City Council Archives, understood as a place for creating leads and clues, made it possible to connect with the past, pursue the sense of a theory of suspicion, and fill silences. Through an intentional and open search of primary sources (cartography, projects, construction records, photographs, periodicals, etc.) carried out by a collaborative team with a radiographic gaze, narratives are constructed, starting at the Alto das Picoas with forts and estates marked on historical maps, and continuing with the transformations of the urban fabric associated with the late-19th-century "Avenidas Novas Plan" and its built environments. Starting from the contemporary city and research, the exhibition displays and highlights mutations in urban morphology (roads, streets, avenues, squares, blocks, estates, gardens, walls) and current and vanished buildings (Palaces, Houses, Income Buildings, Slaughterhouse, Market, Hotel, Maternity Hospital, Post Office, Chapel, Church, Cine-Theatre, Shopping Centers, etc.) that, through their absences and presences, constitute the neighborhoods of what is now understood as a nail house: the Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves House-Museum. The exhibition is organized into four sections, using different sources and media: Section 1: The Picoas Site "The Picoas Site: A Radiographic Gaze Unveiling the Palimpsest(s)" Based on the delimitation of the study area (Avenida Duque d’Ávila, Rua Filipe Folque, Rua de São Sebastião da Pedreira, Rua Viriato, Rua Andrade Corvo, Avenida Duque de Loulé, Rua da Escola de Medicina Veterinária, Avenida dos Defensores de Chaves) and the location of the Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves House-Museum on current and historical maps, this section seeks to showcase the layers of this site/territory. It reveals the names of sites and estates and their progressive evolution and urbanization. It also highlights pre-existences in relation to the late 19th-century Ressano Garcia Plan, featuring the Municipal Slaughterhouse (mid-19th century) and the Palace of the Countess of Camaride (17th-18th century). Finally, it highlights the Andaluz Viaduct, an infrastructure associated with Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo, "built in a particularly adverse topographical situation." Section 2: The City Block "The City Block: The Next-Door Neighbors of the House-Museum" Starting from the current layout and delimitation of the block where the Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves House-Museum is located (Avenida Cinco de Outubro, Rua Pinheiro Chagas, Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo, Rua Latino Coelho), this section seeks to reconstruct the seven buildings that comprised the block, built between 1902 and 1908 (one in 1902; one in 1903; two in 1904; one in 1905; one in 1907; and one in 1908). It reveals the vanished buildings and tells the story of their lives and alterations, which constituted an immediate neighborhood, considered the "next-door neighbors," first of the José Malhoa Atelier House and later of the House-Museum. Section 3: The House-Museum "The House-Museum: The Nail House" Starting from the contemporary reality of the Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves House-Museum, which is a combination of two buildings by Architect Manuel Joaquim Norte Júnior—the José Malhoa Atelier House (1904) and the house of António Pinto da Fonseca Motta (1908)—this section seeks to show the evolution of the House-Museum. The museum has become a nail house resisting the urban dynamics that have taken place in its block, following the demolition of four buildings and the subsequent construction of the FPM 41 project (Barbas Lopes Arquitetos) and the establishment of the Augusto Monjardino Garden (HAHA-arquitectura paisagista). Section 4: Other Neighborhoods "Other Neighborhoods: The Urban Fabric" Through journeys of observation around past and current built environments, this section seeks to reveal layouts and constructions corresponding to ways of thinking, designing, demolishing, regenerating, and using the area around the House-Museum, which constitutes its "other neighborhoods." Among the successive layers of time in space, due to urban dynamics, the following stand out: the Palace of the Countess of Camaride, later the Lisbon Normal College, and the subsequent construction of the Monumental Cinema, whose demolition gave way to the current “Monumental” building; the Municipal Slaughterhouse, whose area of implantation would later give way to the original Mercado 31 de Janeiro and is now occupied by the Saldanha Residence; the church dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, which was started but not completed, and whose site was later used to build the Dr. Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital; and the Silva Graça Palace, later transformed into the Hotel Aviz, whose demolition would give way to the Sheraton Hotel and the Aviz/Imaviz Building.

XI Seminar on Research, Teaching, and Dissemination The COLLABORATIVE LABORATORY: Urban Dynamics, Heritage, Arts. Seminar on Research, Teaching, and Dissemination , coordinated by Paula André (Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon/DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte), will hold its 11th edition on August 28 and 29, 2025, at Mackenzie Presbyterian University (São Paulo, Brazil). Location: Auditorium of the Historical and Cultural Center of Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Building 01) Virtual: August 28 and 29 - 9:00 AM Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 835 2935 5038 Passcode: 933758 VIEW PROGRAM