OUR PRIORITIES
Our research agenda is focused on 6 research themes through which we seek to advance a comprehensive understanding of contemporary social challenges
LATEST NEWS
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Two ArchLabour Talks with DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte Visiting Researchers
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NEI2026 – European Researchers' Night
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Ana Vaz Milheiro on Público
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Doron Altaratz will discuss The Wall as Interface on 23 September
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Sandra Marques Pereira on Forbes Portugal
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As Casas são do Povo exhibition opening
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23/09/2026
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23/09/2026
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15/09/2026
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15/09/2026
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04/09/2026
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25/08/2026
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Two ArchLabour Talks with DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte Visiting Researchers
23/09/2026
DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte welcomes visiting researchers Julia Rabelo and Çiğsem Yağmur Yüksel for two ArchLabour talks exploring Urban Heritage and Archival Research: Research Trajectories and the Bairro do Zambujal Case and also, A Socio-Ecological Sensory Mapping Framework Using Human-in-the-Loop AI and MAXQDA
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NEI2026 – European Researchers' Night
23/09/2026
DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte will be at NEI2026 – European Researchers' Night with the activity “What Is Prison For? Abolition for a World Without Prisons!”, organized by researchers Joana Pestana Lages, Vera Silva and Ricardo Loureiro.
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Ana Vaz Milheiro on Público
15/09/2026
DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher Ana Vaz Milheiro wrote about architect Fernão Lopes Simões Carvalho on the September 9th edition of Público newspaper.
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Doron Altaratz will discuss The Wall as Interface on 23 September
15/09/2026
DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte associate researcher Doron Altaratz will present a talk on the Wall as Interface.
A wall is not a neutral carrier of the marks left on it. It is an interface: it determines what a body can do to it, under whose authority, and what trace survives. This talk follows that claim across three sites and three kinds of surfaces: the physical wall, human traces, and the digital surrogate.
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Sandra Marques Pereira on Forbes Portugal
04/09/2026
DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte researcher holds that the concept of home is changing because we are in a deep housing crisis.
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As Casas são do Povo exhibition opening
25/08/2026
The exhibition, which results from the research project Homes2Live | Inhabiting the Revolution: Perspectives on social transformations and spatial productions from occupied houses in Bairro das Amendoeiras, in Lisbon, will be open from September 15th to 19th 2026.
SCIENTIFIC
OBSERVATION
STRUCTURES
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
OBSERVATORY
The Observatory focuses on three key areas: youth unemployment, quality of youth employment, and labour market policies targeting young workers. Its main goal is to produce impactful publications—such as reports and policy briefs—and to provide regularly updated, accessible data for informed societal and policy discussions.
HABIDATA - Housing Observatory
The Observatory investigates current housing transformations, emphasizing production systems, affordability, housing conditions—especially indecent housing—and policies. It bridges academic research with policy and community involvement. Guided by a multidisciplinary team, it addresses a national gap and supports evidence-based decision-making, utilizing tools like LxHabidata to enhance analysis and outreach.
City-Region Transitions Observatory
The Observatory examines rapid transitions in city-regions by analysing their metabolic systems to promote sustainable human-environment relations. Through open data and interdisciplinary research, it maps socio-environmental dynamics and material flows, developing digital and spatial narratives that support better planning and decision-making for sustainable urban development.
DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte - Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies