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The international seminar (Re)Scaling Networks in Portugal and Europe: Towards New Forms of Decision-Making? will take place at ICS-ULisboa on November 11, 2019. This international seminar, co-organised by UTH member Roberto Falanga, will gather local and international networks to discuss their role in Europe. How can local claims get more emphasis and be more effectively … Continue reading (Re)Scaling Networks in Portugal and Europe: Towards New Forms of Decision-Making? – November 11, 2019

New blog post by Olivia Bina and colleagues, introducing research arising from the INTREPID Cost Action. Urban research, the focus of UTH, is almost by definition both inter and transdisciplinary - this blog post reflects on the skills and dispositions needed, as well as the far reaching career implications of such research. If disciplines shape … Continue reading What motivates researchers to become transdisciplinary? Blog post by Olivia Bina et al.

INTREPID is a recently concluded Cost Action, a 32 country network, led by Olivia Bina, with the overall aim to better understand how to achieve more efficient and effective interdisciplinary research in Europe, in order to enhance our capacity to meet contemporary global (urban) challenges characterised by increasing complexity and uncertainty. INTREPID's latest publication is now available online. … Continue reading INTREPID Knowledge: Interdisciplinary & Transdisciplinary Research and Collaboration

project exPERts, based at the UTH, organises its final conference on October 29 and 30, in the Auditorium Sedas Nunes of ICS-ULisboa. On the 29th (starting at 16.45) the research team will present the results of the project. Day 30th will be opened (at 14.30) by a roundtable on the "state of housing" in Portugal … Continue reading exPERts project final conference (Oct 29-30)

The 10th Annual Small Cinemas Conference, co-organised by UTH members Mariana Liz and Pedro Neto, will take place at ICS-ULisboa in Lisbon, Portugal, between 25 and 27 September 2019. Tamara Falicov (Kansas, USA) and Philippe Meers (Antwerp, Belgium) are the confirmed keynote speakers. ‘Small Cinemas, Small Spaces’ aims to discuss matters of space in the … Continue reading Small Cinemas, Small Spaces, ICS-ULisboa, 25-27/09/2019

The ICS-ULisboa conference 2019 What Urban Futures? From Crisis to Hope, organised by the Urban Transitions Hub in cooperation with H2020 Project ROCK is now over (full program available here). After two days of movie screenings and debate the main conference sessions took place on June 5 and June 6. The two days were respectively … Continue reading What Urban Futures? From Crisis to Hope – available on streaming

In preparation of the ICS conference 2019 What Urban Futures? From Crisis to Hope organised by the Urban Transitions Hub in collaboration with H2020 project ROCK, Mariana Liz has published two blog posts as introductions to the movie screening sessions. The first session, on June 3 and introduced by Graça Castanheira, is dedicated to nature … Continue reading ICS Conference 2019 – movie sessions – posts by Mariana Liz

The Urban Transitions Hub, in collaboration with H2020 Project ROCK, organises ICS-ULisboa’s 2019 conference, which will take place on June 3 to 6 and be dedicated to the topic of urban futures. The full programme and detailed information are now available.

The Urban Transitions Hub, in cooperation with H2020 project ROCK, will organise the 2019 ICS-ULisboa Conference, with the topic: What Urban Futures: From Crisis to Hope. The main conference will take place on June 5-6, 2019 at ICS-ULisboa, and will be opened by two days of screenings and debates at the Caleidoscopio (ULisboa). Confirmed speakers … Continue reading ICS-ULisboa Conference 2019 “What Urban Futures: From Crisis to Hope”