Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Leonor Matos Silva
- Date of birth
- 1978/05/11
- Gender
- Female
Citation names
- Silva, Leonor Matos
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 8D1F-1DC9-7709
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-8413-5003
Email addresses
- leonor_silva@iscte-iul.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Dinâmia/CET, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Avenida das Forças Armadas, Edifício 4, sala B224, 1649-026, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://www.dinamiacet.iscte-iul.pt/research-team/Leonor-Matos-Silva (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Spanish; Castilian | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
French | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
Portuguese (Mother tongue) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2012 - 2019/02/08
Concluded
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PhD in Architecture (Doutoramento)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
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Approved with distinction by unanimous vote |
2009 - 2011
Concluded
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Integrated Master in Architecture (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
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17 |
1998 - 2004
Concluded
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Master in Interior Architecture (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2012/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
Dinâmia'CET - Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómioa e o Território, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2020/12/01 - 2022/03/31 | MCMH - Middle Class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa and Asia
BIPD/07/2020
Post-doc Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2012 - 2016 | Escola de Lisboa: Arquitectura e Cultura entre 1970 e 1986 [Lisbon School: Architecture and Culture between 1970 and 1986]
SFRH/BD/80535/2011
PhD Student Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 | Socio Digital Laboratory for Public Policy
Dinâmia'CET - Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómioa e o Território, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2023/03/01 - 2024/08/31 | WomArchStruggle - Women architects in former Portuguese colonial Africa: gender and struggle for professional recognition
(1953-1985)
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2022/03/14 - 2022/04/20 | Cost Action MCMH-EU: Middle-Class Mass Housing in Europe
Technical development
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
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European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Concluded
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2019/09/01 - 2019/12/31 | Coast to Coast - Late Portuguese Infrastructural Development in Continental Africa (Angola and Mozambique): Critical and Historical
Analysis and Postcolonial Assessment
Research Fellow
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2023 - 2028 | ArchLabour: Architecture, Colonialism and Labour. The role and legacy of mass labour in the design, planning and construction
of Public Works in former African territories under Portuguese colonial rule (www.archlabour.com)
Research Fellow
ISCTE-Centro de Conhecimento e Inovação, Portugal
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European Research Council
Ongoing
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2019 - 2022 | "What Education? Teaching, architecture and research" in (EU)ROPA - Rise of Portuguese Architecture: Fundamentals, Platform,
Progression
Research Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Arquitectura, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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Book chapter |
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Conference abstract |
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Conference paper |
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Dictionary entry |
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Edited book |
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Journal article |
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Magazine article |
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Online resource |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Website |
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Working paper |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/11/21 | Architectural archives’ struggle: housing, war and gender in a colonial context | Lieux & Enjeux: Housing production in times of conflict
Centre de Recherche sur l’Habitat (CRH) - École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Val de Seine (Paris, France)
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2024/10/04 | Yesterday as today, learning to live in a tropical environment: Teaching and practice of housing construction between Lisbon and Luanda | 5º CIHEL - Congresso Internacional da Habitação no Espaço Lusófono: Fazer Habitação
LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2024/09/20 | The Training of Women Architects Working in Portuguese Africa: Architecture School’s Archives (1953-1974) | SAH Virtual 2024 (online)
Society of Architectural Historians
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2024/01/13 | To Research on Women Architects Working in Former Portuguese Africa: A Gender Struggle | Gender Struggles in Architecture, Colonialism, and Housing
CCB-Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/11/30 | WomArchStruggle - Women Architects in Former Portuguese Colonial Africa: Gender and Struggle for Professional Recognition (1953-1985) | PhD Class - Architecture (online)
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Arquitetura, Portugal
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2023/10/04 | Marriage and the school of architecture in the 1940s: the case of B. (Lisbon, 1926-) | ICAG 2023 - VI International Conference on Architecture and Gender
Universitat Politècnica de València (València, Spain)
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2023/01/20 | Women Architects graduated in Porto (E(S)BAP/FAUP) and the Portuguese colonial Africa | II International Congress Colonial and Post-colonial Landscapes
FCG - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2021/06/17 | Shrinking the plan. A middle-class wishful thinking in the outskirts of Lisbon | Optimistic Suburbia 2 - Middle class mass housing complexes
ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2020/05/22 | A Escola de Lisboa e a Universidade, 1979-1999 [Invited speaker] | "What Education?" Architecture, Teaching and Research
CES - Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2019/11/30 | Team 10, Lisbon, 1981. The lost meeting. Three points of an overlapping history [Invited speaker] | Team Ten Farwest. Critical Revision of the Modern Movement in the Iberian Peninsula, 1953-1981
FAUP – Porto University School of Architecture (Porto, Portugal)
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2016/06/18 | The EAAE and the Lisbon School of Architecture - A Common History between 1976 and 1986 | EAAE ARCC 10th International Conference (EAAE ARCC 2016)
FAUL - Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon ( Lisbon, Portugal)
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2016/05/30 | Secção de Vídeo da Faculdade de Arquitectura de Lisboa. A história do objecto e os objectos da sua história: dois ensaios | Architecture of the Metropolitan Contemporary Territories - PhD Sessions
CIUL - Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2016/03/12 | Two Sides of the Same Coin: Liberty and Liberalisation in Portuguese Post-revolutionary Architecture. The Lisbon School towards European Integration: 1976-1986 | The Architecture of Deregulations. Postmodernism, Politics and the Built Environment in Europe 1975 - 1995
KTH - Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden)
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2015/09/03 | Architecture, Cartoon and Graphic Narrative. The case of the Lisbon School in the 1980s | The Site of Discourse. Thinking architecture through publication
IHA/FCSH - New University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2015/05/22 | Tempos de optimismo. Expressões sobre a cidade da Escola de Belas-Artes de Lisboa no pós-25 de Abril | Optimistic Suburbia. Large housing complexes for the middle-class beyond Europe
ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2015/04/23 | O ensino do urbanismo nas escolas portuguesas de arquitectura de Lisboa e do Porto. Fundamentos para uma história do ensino de arquitectura no período 1968-1986 | "Construction of the City of Portuguese Influence" (org. Ana Vaz Milheiro and Filipa Fiúza)
ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2014/11/14 | Cultura Arquitectónica em Lisboa: O Curso de Arquitectura da ESBAL e a Aprendizagem Fora de Portas entre 1974 e 1976. O Caso do Bairro Portugal Novo | 74-14. O SAAL e a Arquitectura
CES - Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2014/10/16 | Cultura Arquitectónica Portuguesa Contemporânea: A Participação da Escola de Lisboa nos Estudos de Energia e Ambiente entre 1975 e 1986 | Arquiteturas do Mar, da Terra e do Ar. Arquitectura e Urbanismo na Geografia e na Cultura
AEAULP - Academia de Escolas de Arquitectura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2013/11/27 | Estudos em Arquitectura Tropical nos Curricula da Escola Superior de Belas-Artes de Lisboa | Colóquio Internacional Conhecimento e Ciência Colonial
Centre of History of the Institute of Tropical Scientific Research and Centre of Philosophy of Sciences of the University
of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2013/07/16 | O ensino da arquitectura e o envolvimento dos alunos: generalidades e casos de estudo | I Congresso Internacional Envolvimento dos Alunos na Escola: Perspetivas da Psicologia e Educação
IEUL - Institute of Education of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2012/07/14 | O ensino de arquitectura em Lisboa no período de 1974 a 1986: integração na Universidade | IX Congresso Luso-Brasileiro de História da Educação. Rituais, Espaços & Patrimónios
IEUL - Institute of Education of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2024/10/01 - 2026/02/13 | INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS "III International Congress on Colonial and Post-colonial Landscapes: Architecture, Colonialism and
Labour" (2024/10/01)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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[To be confirmed], Portugal |
2024/09/20 - 2024/09/20 | SESSION IN CONFERENCE Chair of Session at the SAH Virtual 2024 Conference "Research On Women Architects in Portuguese (Post-)Colonial
Africa" (2024/09/19 - 2024/09/21)
Conference (Other)
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Society of Architectural Historians, United States |
2024/01/18 - 2024/01/20 | SESSION IN CONFERENCE "Learning from (and for) Africa. Architecture, colonialism and conflict". In II International Congress
Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes. https://dinamiacetiul.wixsite.com/congress-archwar (2023/01/20 - 2023/01/20)
Congress (Other)
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FCG - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal |
2023/01/13 - 2023/01/13 | INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR "Gender struggles in architecture, colonialism and housing"; in the scope of the project WomArchStruggle
- Women Architects in Former Portuguese Colonial Africa: Gender and Struggle for Professional Recognition (1953-1985). https://www.womarchstruggle.com/ (2024/01/13 - 2024/01/13)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Centro Cultural de Belém, Portugal |
2021/06/16 - 2021/06/19 | INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "Optimistic Suburbia 2- Middle-class large housing complexes." https://www.optimisticsuburbia2.com/ (2021/06/16 - 2021/06/19)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
2015/04/10 - 2015/04/10 | SYMPOSIUM "VHS Architecture. Lisbon, 1980s: The Post-modernism Symposia." http://arquitecturaemvhs.blogspot.com/ (2015/04/10 - 2015/04/10)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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IHA - Art History Institute, NOVA FCSH - NOVA University of Lisbon - School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Portugal MUDE - Design Museum, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2022/04/06 - 2022/04/08 | Cost-Action MCMH-EU Workshop in Antwerp
Workshop
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"Writing Workshop - Evolution of Collective Spaces in Mass Housing" (coord. Els de Vos)
Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
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2022/03/22 - 2022/03/22 | General public presentation and discussion of current research work
Seminar
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"To research at Dinâmia'CET" (coord. Alexandra Paio)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
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2021/10/20 - 2021/10/23 | Cost-Action MCMH-EU Meeting in Milan
Meeting
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"Southern Europe and Beyond. Comparative and Multi-situated Perspectives on Middle-class Housing" (coord. Gaia Caramellino)
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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2019/07/01 - 2019/07/01 | General public presentation and discussion of current research work
Meeting
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"Encontros doutorais III". Doctoral end-of-semester meeting, class of 2018/19. Evaluation of students' oral presentations
and further individual tutoring (coord. Ana Vaz Milheiro).
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
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2016/04/12 - 2016/04/12 | General public presentation and discussion of current research work
Seminar
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"[Sem título] - Apontamentos sobre o percurso de um doutoramento" PhD Class: Archtiecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories
(coord. Paulo Tormenta Pinto).
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
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2014/11/03 - 2014/11/03 | General public presentation and discussion of current research work
Seminar
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"Projecto Sociedade / Intervalo para o Conhecimento" - 5th series (coord. Frederico Duarte)
Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Portugal
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2024 - Current | SAH - Society of Architectural Historians | Member |
2023 - Current | Cost Action CA 20137: Making Young Researchers' Voices Heard for Gender Equality (VOICES) | Member |
2022 - Current | EAHN - European Architectural History Network | Member |
2014 - Current | AHRA - Architectural Humanities Research Association | Association member |
2012/05/10 - Current | OA - Ordem dos Arquitectos Portugueses / Portuguese architects Bar | Member |
2012/01/01 - Current | Dinâmia´CET, ISCTE-IUL | Integrated Member |
2020 - 2023 | Cost Action CA 18137: MCMH-Middle-Class Mass Housing in Europe | Member |
2016/03 - 2019/09 | AA - Architectural Association School of Architecture | One-off member |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2020 - Current | DINÂMIA’CET, Centre for the Study of Socioeconomic Change and the Territory Scientific Council
Member
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ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2024 - Current | 113th Annual Meeting, "Repair" [Reviewer] | ACSA - Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture |
2024 - Current | Portuguese Landscape Architecture Education, Heritage and Research 80 Years of History [Reviewer] ( 9781032592886) | Routledge |
2022 - 2022 | CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios [Guest Editor] (2182-3030) | Dinâmia'CET, ISCTE-IUL |
2021 - 2021 | Sustainability [Reviewer] (2071-1050) | MDPI |
2021 - 2021 | Optimistic Suburbia 2 - International Conference Proceedings [Editor] (9789897815508) | Dinâmia'CET - ISCTE-IUL |
2020 - 2020 | Sophia Journal #6 [Editorial team] (2183-8976) | CCRE/CEAU - Porto School of Architecture |
2013/12 - 2014/12 | PASSAGENS [Project team] (2182-8512) | Caleidoscópio |
2014/05 - 2014/08 | CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios [Reviewer] (2182-3030) | Dinâmia'CET, ISCTE-IUL |
Other jury / evaluation
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2024 - 2024 | President of the jury - Two competitions for research positions in the scientific area of Architecture. "ArchLabour: Colonialism, Architecture and Labour" (ERC Grant agreement 101096606 - Ana Vaz Milheiro) | ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
2023/01/13 - 2023/02/09 | Member of the jury - Competition for a research grant in the scientific area of Architecture. "ARCHWAR - Control and violence through housing and architecture during the colonial wars. The Portuguese case (Guinea-Bissau, Angola and Mozambique): colonial documentation and post-independence critical analysis" [PTDC/ART- DAQ/0592/2020]. | ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
Scientific expedition
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2023/09/09 - 2023/09/16 | Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) "Gender Equality in Architectural Education: the Case of the Faculty of Architecture of Belgrade", Belgrade, Serbia. | COST-Action 20137 "Making Young Researchers' Voices Heard for Gender Equality (VOICES)", France |