DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte project at the 7th Lisbon Architecture Triennale

“Immaterial Matters: Unveiling the Presence of the Invisible”, has been selected as one of the six finalists of the Universities Competition for the 7th Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2025.

Under the theme “How Heavy is a City?”, this edition challenges us to rethink urban weight beyond its physical dimension — acknowledging the symbolic, social, and subjective layers that shape the urban experience.

Immaterial Matters explores the city through its voids — spatial residues of industrial and urban processes that, rather than being marginal, reveal regenerative potential. The project investigates how these voids can resist the compulsion to build and consume, activating urban dynamics based on invisible and immaterial processes. It is grounded in a radical-utopian idealisation, transdisciplinary collaboration, and critical curatorial dissemination.

The project was developed by Inês Nascimento, Raquel Lopes, Lorenzo Stefano Iannizzotto, and Elian Stefa at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, within the framework of DINÂMIA'CET- Iscte and the PhD Programme in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories, under the scientific coordination of Alexandra Paio.