The general aim of this project is to study the transformations in Siza’s collective housing over the past 5 decades, focusing on the linked analysis of: a) the projects (social and private housing) and the respective social and urban condition framework; and b) their residents and the relationships they develop with the projected space. The research follows an intensive methodology: comparative study of 3 Siza’s cases/collective housing projects. Each represents a moment on the architect’s professional life and corresponds to a moment in the life of society and the city; the 3 together, and their temporal sequence, represent (part of) Siza’s trajectory and that of contemporary society and of the city. The cases are: 1. Bouça/Porto - started following the 1974 revolution. Symbolising the Revolution, Architecture and the Right to the City when it was in decay; 2. Terraços de Bragança – Chiado, Lisboa, started in the 1990s. Symbolising the national real estate boom, modernization launch and procrastination of urban renaissance; 3. Building 611 West 56th Street – Hell’s Kitchen, New York, began in the 2010s. Symbolising hyper-globalisation, the rise of the city, financialisation of real estate and the incontestability of the value of architectural authorship. The greatest innovation in the proposal is in the temporal sequence of the 3 cases, which allows us to answer the following questions: what has changed in the production and appropriation of Siza’s houses and how do these changes relate to social transformations and the architect’s career? Who promoted the housing at the different times, locations, to what end and for whom? What are the formal, functional and contextual differences/similarities between the projects? How have transformations in the urban context impacted on the occupation of dwelling in social, use and value terms? What is the social profile of residents, their evolution and differences between cases? How do these residents live in Siza’s houses? W...

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This study had two central objectives: on the one hand, to situate in a medium-term horizon (until 2030) the economic, social, and political transformations that frame the population movements of emigration and immigration, both in an international context and in the national context, to support the development of intervention strategies and the overhaul of the organizational structures of the High Commissioner for Migration. The main driving forces that structure the population's mobility were identified, the variables transversal to the economic and social development were clarified and the different scenarios for Portugal in terms of migrations were discussed. Through the collection and analysis of different national and international studies, several types of scenarios were systematized, some of the key variables were identified that structured the phenomena of mobility, namely in the economic, social and political dimensions, and the main existing data were presented on the volatility of the inflows and outflows. Prospective trends intersect this information with the results of consultation with privileged informants on the major structural uncertainties in the future of migration by 2030 and the two main trends on mobility in Portugal in terms of inflows and outflows.

We propose an international comparative approach enabling similiar questioning of neighborhoods affected by changes whose the causes are, possibly, comparable (globalization, metropolisation, transformation of national and local governments), but also the consequences in terms of social effects and take on change. The relations between resilience and resistance in these four central European urban neighborhoods will be studied on the basis of the practices of residents and users, which we consider to be less of the traditional logic of the "springboard district" than of the existence of spheres of life. belonging and uses that go well beyond the neighborhood, and can be described as "socio-spheres", and be grasped through the notion of "scenes". The analysis will be based on interviews about the life course of individuals and families living in the neighborhood at the time of the survey, and particularly those who struggle to maintain themselves by developing residential strategies (according to family, friends, professionals), as well as to individuals and families whose presence in the public space and their attachment to the territory (manifested by their activities and practices of certain places) express and anchor their desire to have a free appeal. The goal of "staying in town" is therefore the backbone of cross-examination of 4 central districts of major European cities: Paris, Brussels Lisbon and Vienna. These interviews, 240 in number (60 per site), will be supplemented by site-based, system-based observations to the extent that they offer resistance / resilience catches. The "systems of places" thus drawn up are combined with "linkage systems" making it possible to describe the hospitality of the reception area, its amenities, and the possibility for some poor households to remain in the city center, despite, and possibly due to, metropolisation.

Project goals were to analyze: 1) the regulatory framework of Volunteerism in SCML (assumptions, principles, objectives, expectations; 2) the degree of implementation of the principles and objectives underlying the implementation of the Voluntary Service in SCML (strengths and weaknesses, difficulties and obstacles, articulation with other internal services, 'good practices', innovation factors; 3.) the organizational and procedural models adopted (factors of effectiveness and efficiency, degree of satisfaction; 4) the results and actual Impacts of the Volunteer Service in the different areas of SCML intervention (results, degrees of satisfaction, confrontation with initial expectations; 5) to produce Strategic Recommendations. Methodology was based on a quantitative approach, which will make it possible to characterize motivations, satisfaction levels, constraints, expectations, perception of results and impacts, etc., of the various stakeholders within the scope of the project (Beneficiaries, Volunteers and the Services of SCML itself). Also, there was an approach of a qualitative nature, by means of which the knowledge relating to each of the dimensions of analysis is comprehensively explored. In this case, in addition to the framework of the Beneficiaries, Volunteers and Services of the SCML, a phase is also proposed to collect information with the beneficiaries' families.

This project sought to collect, analyze and provide a detailed set of information on the projects financed by the “Programa de Desenvolvimento Comunitário para a Mouraria”, ultimately aiming at an integrated analysis of the PDCM, its implementation and functioning as well as the objectives achieved in this phase of work: "the individual and comparative analysis should focus on each project in relation to the achievement of the proposed objectives and the contribution of each of them to the results of each and each axis in relation to the general objectives of the PDCM."

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