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Call for Entries – Arquiteturas Film Festival
06/10/2025
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.
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Joana Pestana Lages on Público newspaper on housing precarity in the Lisbon area.
01/10/2025
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.
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Joana Pestana Lages interview in Diário de Notícias
18/09/2025
Joana Lages was featured in an article about the Housing Freedom project, in Diário de Notícias.
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Conference Sob o Mesmo Teto 2025
17/09/2025
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.
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Joana Pestana Lages awarded ERC Starting Grant.
04/09/2025
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.
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Policy Responses to Ageing in Cascais
26/07/2024
Project developed by a DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte research team with an impact on the creation of active ageing promotiion policy in Cascais.
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"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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Seminar: 'Envelhecer em Cascais - Como construir um município onde todos possam envelhecer bem?'
23/01/2022
Take-off seminar for the project Envelhecer em Cascais: 'How to build a municipality where all may age well? 26 January in Cascais. Free admission with previous registration.
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Joana Lages and Alexandra Paio lead a project to partner with New European Bauhaus
14/07/2021
A project coordinated by Joana Lages and Alexandra Paio was selected to integrate a partnership with New European Bauhaus. This action was promoted by the European Commission to respond to current challenges in the Ecological Pact and the need to build a post-pandemic future.
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Diário de um Investigador Podcast featuring Joana Lages
17/09/2024
Podcast Diário de um investigador is back. In this episode, we meet architect Joana Pestana Lages, who spoke about her work in housing and the importance of dialogue creation in social issues.
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DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte participates in the New European Bauhaus Festival with an event led by Joana Pestana Lages
09/06/2022
The New European Bauhaus Festival is underway. It's happening in Brussels from today until Sunday, but many side events are available virtually. One of these is the event produced and organized by a team at DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte, led by Joana Pestana Lages.