Architect (Lusíada, 1993), Master's in Urban Design (Iscte-IUL, 2002), and Ph.D. in Architecture and Urbanism (Iscte-IUL, 2011). Vice-President of the Regional Section of Lisbon and Tagus Valley, Order of Architects (2023-2026). Associate Professor at Iscte - Lisbon University Institute. Coordinator of the Professional Master's Program in Digital Innovation for Design Practices (Iscte/FAUP) (2021 - ). Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories (2017-2023). Coordinator of CEAAD: Advanced Studies Course in Digital Architecture Iscte-IUL| FAUP (2013 - 2016), Coordinator of the Specialization Course in Collaborative Territories: Processes, Design, Intervention, and Entrepreneurship (2014 - 2023). Scientific Coordinator of the Digital Fabrication Laboratory - Vitruvius Fablab-IUL (2011 - 2022). Vice-Director of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism (2016-2019). Teaches in the area of architectural design in the Integrated Master's in Architecture. Regional coordinator of the Marie Curie ITN project "RE-DWELL: Delivering affordable and sustainable housing in Europe" (H2020 / Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions/956082), OIKOnet. A global multidisciplinary network on housing research and learning (539369-LLP-1-ES-ERASMUS-ENW). Researcher in Care(4)Housing. Caring for Housing - An approach to housing precarity in Portugal through design care (PTDC/ART-DAQ/0181/2021), TEL@FTELa Project - Technology Enhanced Learning at Future Teacher Education Lab (PTDC/MHC-CED/0588/2014), and F-ATLAS Franciscan Landscapes: the Observance between Italy, Portugal, and Spain (JPI-CH program). Coordinates and supervises research in the area of digital architecture: computational design, digital tools and processes to support creative design, emerging housing, public space, and participatory processes. Participates and coordinates workshops and ongoing training with the support of Portuguese industry companies and municipalities in the themes of co-production and participatory processes through digital tools. Special Mention Research and Teaching Forma Award 2022. Regularly writes opinion articles in the national media. Bi-weekly column in Jornal Económico.    

Paulo Tormenta Pinto (Lisbon, 1970), began his teaching activity in 1997, and is currently a Full Professor at Iscte, in the area of Architecture. His doctoral thesis “Arquitetura e Artifício – Cassiano Branco 1897-1970” was published in 3 editions (Caleidoscópio ed. 2007, 2015 e 2020). As a researcher, he has participated in and coordinated several projects related to architectural culture, highlighting, as responsible researcher, the projects “The Critical Monumentality of Álvaro Siza” and “Grand Projects - Architectural and urbanistic operations after the Lisbon World Exhibition of 1998”, both financed by FCT. He held several positions in the academic structure of Iscte, namely as director of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism and as director of the Research Center for Socioeconomic and Territorial Change – (Dinamia’CET-Iscte). He was the godfather of the title of Doctor Honoris causa awarded to Nuno Portas, by Iscte, in 2020. His work as an architect has been published and awarded several times, most recently, the FORMA Prize 2022 and the Teotónio Pereira Prize 2022. In 2022 he was a finalist of the FAD Award. His work was nominated for the Mies Van Der Rohe Award in the 2022 and 2024 editions. In 2023 he was distinguished with the 2023 Research and Sustainability Award (ex aequo), awarded by the Order of Architects.

Soraya Monteiro Genin is graduated in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Lisbon (1990), has a Master degree in Science in Architecture, Specialization Conservation of Historic Towns and Buildings (1995) and a Ph.D. in Engineering (2014) by the Faculty of Engineering at the KU Leuven. Assistant Professor, she was Vice-Director of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute, where she has been teaching Architecture Technologies and Architectural Conservation since 2002. President of the Portuguese National Commission of ICOMOS (2018-2023) and current Vice-President (2023-). Expert member of the Sustainable Development Goals Working Group (SDGWG) and of the following ICOMOS Scientific Committees: Training, Theory and Philosophy of Conservation and Restoration, Places of Religion and Ritual, Stone. Author of several publications and communications on Conservation of Cultural Heritage and History of Construction, her main areas of research. Coordinator of the research projects “SizaATLAS. Filling the gaps for World Heritage” (leader) and “F-ATLAS. Franciscan Landscapes: the Observance between Italy, Portugal and Spain” (principal researcher), at ISTAR-IUL and DINÂMIA'CET-IUL. She was ranked 1st in limited competitions on Architectural Projects she coordinated in her office (1999-2014), for the Belém Tower walkway I 2002, the cafetaria of the National Palace of Queluz in 2002, the Livramento Chapel in Estoril in 2003, the Hospedaria cloister of the Convent of Christ in Tomar in 2004, the French Embassy in 2006 and the Parliament, in Lisbon in 2013. Winner of the "TEKTÓNICA Promoter Academy" award for the course "Architectural Practices", which she organises since 2012, at the International Construction Fair, in Lisbon

Teresa is a Full Professor in Architecture and Urbanism at ISCTE-IUL, the Department of Architecture and Urbanism. She is a Senior Researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-IUL where she coordinated the research teams for Project MEMO - Evolution of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area Metabolism. Lessons towards a Sustainable Urban Future (financed by the Portuguese Science Foundation - PTDC/EMS-ENE/2197/2012); and Project SPLACH Spatial Planning for Change (financed by the Program PACl 2020 with the University of Porto and University of Aveiro). She was the Vice Director for the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at ISCTE-IUL (2013-2016) and the ERASMUS Coordinator for the Department of Architecture and Urbanism (2002-2016). She was a member of the General Council of ISCTE-IUL and of ISCTE Scientific Council. She was a co-founder of the Portuguese-language Network on Urban Morphology (PNUM), and its president between 2015 and 2018. PNUM is a regional Network of ISUF (International Seminar on Urban Form). She was a visiting Professor at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (July 2013), at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya TECH (UPC), Barcelona, Spain (2011), University of Florence and University of Athens. Her current research interests are related to the study of Urban Form, Urban and Social Metabolism, Ecological Urbanism, Sustainability, Food Systems and Urban Planning. Teresa was awarded Women in Science 2019, for the field of Architecture, by Ciência Viva (http://www.cienciaviva.pt/mulheresnaciencia/index.asp). Her latest book 'Atlas of the Food System. Challenges for a Sustainable transition of the Lisbon Region' was published by Springer.

Paula André has a PhD in Architecture from Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon and a master's degree in Art History from FCSH-UNL. She is a professor in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon; director of the Doctorate in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories; coordinator of the Architecture and Visual Culture Research Centre in the Doctorate in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories; director of the Master's Degree in Architecture and Visual Culture in Lisbon; lecturer on the Integrated Master's Degree in Architecture and the Master's Degree in Cultural Studies and Management; president of the Scientific Committee of the PhD in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories; member of the Scientific Committee of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism; member of the Scientific Committee and integrated researcher of the Centre for Studies on Socioeconomic Change and Territory - Dinâmia'cet-iscte; member of the Supervisory Board of the Portuguese Architects' Association; coordinator of the Thematic Line “Images of Material Realisations” of the FCT Project ’Print Photography. Image and Propaganda in Portugal (1934-1974)’. Team member of the FCT project ‘Exportar Portugal. Cultural diplomacy and the Estado Novo's rebranding strategies in the United States (1933-1974)’. Coordinator of the ‘Collaborative Laboratory Urban Dynamics, Heritage, Arts. Research, Teaching and Dissemination Seminar’ in partnership with 18 universities and research centres in Portugal, Spain and Brazil. Member of the Editorial Committee of the magazine ‘ARA’, published by the Museum/Heritage Group of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo and the magazine ‘Cities, Communities and Territories’ published by Dinâmia'cet-iscte. Member of the Asociación de Historiadores de la Arquitectura y el Urbanismo (AhAU). Collaborating researcher at the Centre for the History of Art and Artistic Research at the University of Évora - CHAIA-UE.

Architect (1995, FAUL). Master in Urban Design (Building Space Regulations, 2002, ISCTE-IUL). PhD in Architecture (The Teaching of the Architecture Design in Portugal in the Post-Bologna, 2016, ISCTE-IUL). Teacher of Architectural Design and Drawing at ISCTE-IUL since 2004. Director of the Integrated Master in Architecture (2019-2021). Researcher in themes such as: the teaching and production of architecture; the normative, infrastructure and the morphology of public space. Designer since 1995 (Utopos, Risco, Bernardo Miranda), coordinator and/or co-author of awarded works such as Vila Expo'98 (Lisbon); Estádio do Dragão (Oporto); Public Space in Central Cacém (Sintra); Portas do Mar (Ponta Delgada); Hospital da Luz (Lisbon); Porto do Funchal, and the Horta Maritime Terminal (Faial). Co-author of the new ISCTE-IUL Technology Transfer and Enhancement Centre building (with Bernardo Miranda and Susana Rego, 2019) and member of the ISCTE-IUL University Residences Mission Team (2020).