As part of the PhD Programme in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories, Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon is pleased to host the conference: O Jardim de Epicuro e o Realismo da Nova Arquitetura Portuguesa (The Garden of Epicurus and the Realism of the New Portuguese Architecture). The session will take place on 12 November 2025, at 3:00 PM, in Auditorium B302, Building 2.

The conference will take place on 11 November 2025, at 6:00 PM, at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, Building 1, Auditorium 0NE02 - Caiano Pereira.

Rita Calvário, researcher at DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, will join the Socio-Ecological Transformation in Times of Regression International Symposium, as guest speaker. The symposium will be hosted by the University of Kassel on December 4th and 5th, 2025.

The 7th Meeting Cidades, Arquitetura e Arquivos em contexto Ibero-Americano, coordinated by Paula André, Paulo Batista, and Ricardo Trevisan, will take place on 24 and 25 October at the Casa da Arquitectura in Matosinhos.

The researcher Ricardo Paes Mamede, in an interview to CNN Portugal, argues that the labour market in Portugal is not rigid and that the Government’s proposed amendments to labour legislation will result in an "enormous reduction of the negotiating power" of workers, which has implications not only for their income but also for their living conditions.

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.

Our new policy brief distills insights from the special session organized by EDITS — a global research network on Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological and Social innovations — at the IST’25 Conference.

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.

Lucio Baccaro, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, interview in Público, following his visit to Lisbon for the presentation of the lecture Comparative Political Economy and the Growth Model Perspective, at the Conferência Inaugural dos Programas de Mestrado e Doutoramento em Economia Política 2025/2026, held at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon.

Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon will host the Opening Session of the PhD Programme in Urban Studies (a joint Doctoral programme between Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon and NOVA FCSH). The session will take place on 16 October, at 6:00 PM, in Auditorium C1.04, Building 2.

The International Chair project on Ageing, developed in collaboration with various Francophone and international partners, will be officially presented at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, on October 13.

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 Lisbon Architecture Triennale Millennium BCP Universities Award, 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 Lighter exhibition.

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.

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.

3 national newspapers (CNN Portugal, TSF Rádio Notícias and Observador), have featured the subject of fare-free public transport, based on the chapter by Nuno Bento (DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte) and João Pereira, included in the report O Estado da Nação e as Políticas Públicas 2025, an IPPS-Iscte initiative coordinated by Pedro Adão e Silva.

This publication is the result of a collaboration between the Câmara Municipal de Cascais, CIDEHUS – Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades da Universidade de Évora, PPG-FAU-UnB – Programa de Pós-Graduação da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de Brasília, and DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte.

We are extremely proud to announce that three projects from DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte researchers have been selected for funding by the FCT, within the 2024 Call for Exploratory Research Projects in all Scientific Domains.

Paulo Tormenta Pinto, director of DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte, will participate in the tribute session for Nuno Portas, which will take place at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto on September 23.

Joana Lages was featured in an article about the Housing Freedom project, in Diário de Notícias.

Open call for one (1) Research Grant (BI_06_2025) as part of the Scientific Research project titled 'Hyping Agriculture and Transit (HAT) in 15-minute Cities (15mC) – Food-growing public transport-orientated communities driving urban transitions as green Proximity Orientated Developments (PODs)´.

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.

The seminar Campus with a Future: The Role of Higher Education Institutions in the Transition to Sustainability will take place on September 23rd, as part of the Sustainability Week 2025, at Iscte.

Paulo Marques, coordinator of the Youth Employment Observatory, was interviewed on the November 10th edition of Negócios on Now channel, dedicated to the topic of labour legislation.

On September 8, 2025, Paulo Tormenta Pinto was sworn in as the Director of DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte for the 2025/2028 term.

This webinar will dive into leading practices in Sustainable Business Management, highlighting innovative strategies, practical tools, and real-world cases that integrate sustainability into core business operations. 

Paulo Marques was interviewed on the September 9th edition of the Fórum TSF dedicated to the topic of the government's proposed labour legislation reform.

Iscte will host the Inaugural Conference of the Master's and PhD Programmes in Political Economy on September 19th. The event will take place at Auditorium 306 (Building 4), from 2:30 to 5:30 PM.

The Seminar A Crise da Habitação nos Açores (Housing Crisis in the Azores) will take place on September 10th, 11th, and 12th in Ponta Delgada. The event will include a conference, workshops, and visits.

DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte will participate in NEI2025 – European Researchers Night with the activity Arquitetura Aqui na Escola: Onde Andou na Primária?, organized by researchers Ana Mehnert Pascoal, Ana Rosado, Catarina Ruivo, and Ricardo Agarez.

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.