Project List

The project" Beyond Modern Housing Heritage of Portuguese Influence, an Optimistic Architecture for Living. Comparative and Multi-Situated Perspectives on Modern Dwellings and Surrounding" explores the innovative design of the modern lifestyle achieved in modern Portuguese expression. Reloading collective housing as the core of optimistic architecture aims to establish a framework of conceptual thinking on the significance of this housing heritage, its preservation, and some of the pivotal issues concerning renewal and valorisation. Considering Architecture as a geographically and temporally localised discipline, the guiding idea is to include projects from different territories to avoid generalisations in the interest of reviewing the facts themselves. Comparative studies on residential complexes built after the Second World War will assess the impact of the building boom in Lisbon, Recife, Luanda, Maputo and Macao. The proposal will address how the efforts of Portuguese architects changed colonial strategies regarding daily life. Studying modern domestic spaces will trace their growth and their undoubted contributions to raising challenges and procedures for preserving collective housing, which is an issue at the top of the contemporary agenda. The first level establishes a direct relationship between housing and modernity through spatial planning and architectural analysis, evaluating the quality of the built environment. At the intermediate level, the aim is to distinguish innovative techniques and sustainable approaches, which can be accomplished through a popular architecture survey within technological innovation. To address this question, at a deeper level, I will examine the resilience of these complexes, including the residents' aspirations today, by looking into urban space, typology, (in)formal distribution spaces, and current innovative constructive systems. Confirming that living in a well-lit, airy and energy-efficient house is a decisive variable in ...

The project aims to understand where and how to redesign PS in the “extensive city”, by discussing with stakeholders its value and potential to contribute to a more sustainable transition path. The project purpose is to study what it means to design sustainable and socially inclusive public spaces in the sprawling city, based on a debate on how to gather more interest and better investment for this purpose. Through a critical analysis of the public space of peripheral and discontinuous areas in Lisbon and Oporto Metropolitan Areas, the research aims to achieve prospective reasoning to tackle urban change obstacles. Partial goals include: understanding the characteristics of these public spaces; locating the challenges and opportunities to be tackled; debating innovative strategies for peripheral and discontinuous urban areas; bridging scientific and practical knowledge.

OPAC is developing a study and a territorial mapping named "Artistic and Cultural Atlas of Portugal (AACP)", at municipality level through a wide set of artistic and cultural dimensions, domains and indicators. The specific objectives of this Partnership Support Programme DGARTES and Iscte within the scope of the OPAC are: 1. To promote equal access to the arts by strengthening artistic supply, access and participation in the identified territories by supporting multidisciplinary artistic projects that are developed in those territories, designed for and with local communities; 2. To encourage the creation of cultural projects with the participation and active involvement of local communities, which contribute to the valorisation, training and empowerment of the populations and to the human, social and economic development of the territories; 3. To promote the participation of local artists and artistic-cultural agents in the creation of projects, the consolidation of autonomous and sustainable structures or institutions, in the various fields of activity, and activities in favour of the development of the communities, the surrounding territory and the country. In this Agreement OPAC is responsible for:a) Consult and collaborate in the preparation of the Partnership Support Programme;b) Contribute, in conformity with the operational means at its reach, to the dissemination and promotion of the supported projectsc) To take part, or appoint two members to take part in the work of the application appraisal committeed) Jointly preparing, with DGARTES, a final evaluation on the impact of the support programme (through a case study or other similar methodology) in its various aspects, namely, on the artistic fields of activity that stood out, the contribution artistic projects gave to social and territorial cohesion, particularly in terms of local impact on artistic creation and fruition and/or the identification of lines of deepening for future policy measures.

The research project focused on the development of a cutting-edge tool designed to aid organizations in enhancing their understanding and visualization of software models. The primary objective was to provide a user-friendly platform that would enable users to create, manipulate, and visualize software models in a highly intuitive and interactive manner. This tool aimed to bridge the gap between technical complexity and comprehensibility, allowing stakeholders to grasp the intricacies of software systems more effectively. By leveraging advanced visualization techniques and intuitive interfaces, the tool aimed to facilitate better communication and collaboration among software development teams, project managers, and other stakeholders. Through its innovative features, the tool aimed to empower organizations to gain deeper insights into their software models, make informed decisions, and drive efficient and effective software development processes.

O estudo em referência tem como objetivo nuclear produzir informação em dois níveis complementares:- No plano europeu, o projeto EUROSTUDENT, toma por base uma lista alargada de indicadores harmonizados e comparáveis. Este conjunto de indicadores, tendo o seu foco principal nas condições de vida dos estudantes, inclui temas tão diversos como a transição e acesso ao ensino superior; tipos e modalidades de estudo; origens sociais; residência/alojamento; despesas; rendimentos; emprego e quotidiano (distribuição de tempos); mobilidade e internacionalização; e avaliação da qualidade do programa de estudos e planos para o futuro. Nesta edição (EVIII), introduziram-se módulos respeitantes a questões suplementares, nomeadamente sobre as consequências da pandemia (provocada pela Covid19), bem estar e saúde mental e experiências de discriminação.- No plano nacional, produzir informação, em termos gerais, sobre as condições socioeconómicas dos estudantes portugueses do ensino superior (com a diversidade da temática apresentada anteriormente). Importa sublinhar que uma parte da equipa proponente da presente proposta foi responsável pela realização do INQUÉRITO SOCIOECONÓMICO AOS ESTUDANTES DO ENSINO SUPERIOR EM PORTUGAL, em 4 rounds anteriores: no Projeto EUROSTUDENT (EII) 2005, EUROSTUDENT (EIII) 2008, EUROSTUDENT (VI) 2018, EUROSTUDENT VII, 2021.