Lista de Projetos

Today, the world’s prisons are home to circa 11.5 million people globally, an increase of more than 27% from 2000. Post-incarceration is a major challenge that reflects and contributes to the broader systemic issues within the criminal justice system, expressed by high recidivism rates. This interdisciplinary project proposes to reframe what spatial assemblies, edifices and policies are necessary on the path from prison, addressing the reentry process using housing as an infrastructure of care, incorporating an abolitionist epistemology. HOUSINGFREEDOM aims to: — Develop an innovative conceptualisation for studying housing in the context of post-incarceration, by conducting a far-reaching study of reentry processes. This approach is designed to overcome limitations in global scholarship on the nexus between postincarceration life and housing insecurity. — Map and study how can the narratives of the formerly incarcerated people and their housing struggle facing reentry inform practical interventions, shaping more just urban landscapes, under a ‘abolition by design’ approach, also offering incisive policy analysis to informs policy reform. — Provide a solid conceptual, methodological, and empirical foundation for carcerality studies across a vast range of disciplines, through a participatory approach. Methodologically, HOUSINGFREEDOM offers innovative design-based spatial and visual analysis strategies to reimagine spatial justice and decent housing for those who leave incarceration, along mapping and multimodal ethnography. A research-by-design approach to humanize (not criminalize) by design will engage a Community of Practice with those affected by carcerality, centred in Portugal, Belgium and Norway. Radical and ambitious, HOUSINGFREEDOM bridges the gap between these seemingly distinct fields, carcerality and housing instability, by shedding light on the cyclical nature of poverty, crime, and social exclusion.

The BRIDGE project explores how digital inequalities in education are shaped by families’ access to digital cultural capital. Moving beyond the question of device availability, it examines how home environments, classroom dynamics, and teaching practices influence learning opportunities. Over 24 months, BRIDGE will engage 3,000 students and 100 teachers across 12 school clusters, testing whether innovative pedagogies can effectively narrow digital divides. Using a mixed-methods design, it combines surveys, digital skills assessments, interviews, and classroom observations to provide a multidimensional understanding of inclusion in digital education. The project compares standard, culturally responsive, and critical pedagogies through a randomized controlled trial, generating robust evidence on what works to promote equality. Its outcomes include tools for assessing digital engagement at home and in school, as well as evidence-based teaching guides designed to strengthen family participation and reduce digital skill gaps.

Cidades Fragmentadas, programa/constelação interdisciplinar com sede no espaço independente de arquitetura, pesquisa e arte- c/arpa, conecta o centro e as periferias de Lisboa com o objetivo de abordar criticamente as hierarquias estabelecidas no espaço urbano contemporâneo. Integrando redes colaborativas de espaços nacionais e internacionais análogos, acolhe profissionais emergentes e consagrados. As atividades exploram a relação entre arquitetura expandida, arte, performance e práticas vernaculares subalternizadas, em diálogo com artistas do sul global e diásporas

Este projeto surge da necessidade de reavaliar a crescente desconexão entre os habitats humanos e o mundo natural. O objetivo é reverter esta tendência através de uma abordagem inovadora que combina a promoção de biomas, a bioconstrução e a robótica colaborativa para a construção de edifícios regenerativos e resilientes. A metodologia propõe o desenvolvimento de software capaz de gerar modelos arquitetónicos adaptáveis, integrando-os no contexto natural, maximizando a eficiência energética e promovendo a biodiversidade.

The market uptake of RES depends on a complex combination of political, geographical, economic, social and cultural factors that are specifically intertwined in each locality. In addition, the acceptance and willingness of directly affected stakeholders to support the deployment of RES depends on the perceived fairness about how the decisions are made (procedural justice) and how the benefits are shared (distributive justice). POWERUP adopts a holistic approach towards the market uptake of RES for electricity and provides a set of open source tools and methodologies addressing all these factors, tailoring the RES projects to the local conditions and increaseing their acceptability and market uptake. The tools include a GIS-based decision support tool for initial feasibility assessment, a business model toolkit for reconciling stakeholder requirements and producing equitable business models, and a co-creation toolkit for engaging the stakeholders in co-design of a RES project that is reproducible and tailored to the local needs and conditions. The tools are supported by a social acceptability strategy for RES that provides guidance for considering all social aspects in the decision-making and design process. The POWERUP tools and methodologies will be extensively validated in 4 European regions and replicated in 10 follower regions, covering a variety of conditions all over Europe. The project aims to involve >700 public and private stakeholders and organise 46 workshops, incresing the perception of fairness of the RES business models by 80% and the community acceptance by at least 50%. The project consortium is a team from 5 EU countries that comprises regional energy agencies, public authorities, universities, and research centres and includes leading experts in Social Science and Humanities, Business, Renewable Energies, ICT and data science, legal and regulatory framework, with large practical experience in promotion of the renewable energies uptake.