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TEACHING STAFF - ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025
NOVA FCSH
Margarida Tavares da Conceição
ISCTE - INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA
Faculty for (2024/2025)
Inês Lourenço, PhD in Anthroplogy ( ISCTE/IUL, University Institute of Lisbon), is a researcher at Centre for Research in Anthropology/University Institute of Lisbon. Her research is focused on the Hindu Diaspora in Portugal supported by fieldwork carried out in Portugal and in India since 2000. Other topics of interest are the consumption of Indian commodities, such as Bollywood, and on the related social uses of culture in the Portuguese society. Her current research is the processes of patrimonialization of communities of Indian origin in Portugal, in an articulation between museology and anthropology.
Maria Assunção Gato is a researcher at ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, integrating the Centre for the Study of Socioeconomic Change and the Territory (DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte). Her main research interests lie in urban anthropology and sociology, exploring themes like space values, meanings and spatial consumption, social recompositions, lifestyles, residential dynamics in urban territories and tourism. In parallel, she has developed a second line of research focused on cultural, creative and participatory dynamics, considering socio-economic changes and impacts on territories and local communities. Maria Assunção Gato holds a PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology and a Master in Geography - Territorial Management from the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is currently sub-director of DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte, director of the journal Cidades, Comunidades e Territórios and co-coordinator of Thematic Line 1 - Regenerative Territories for Carbon Neutrality - of the SocioDigital Lab for Public Policy of Iscte.
Graça Índias Cordeiro is an urban anthropologist and associate professor at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon. She has extensive teaching experience in social sciences and urban studies, particularly in ethnography and urban social history, both in Portugal and abroad. She has been a visiting professor in the United States, Spain (Catalonia), and Brazil. Lisbon has been one of her primary research fields, where she has explored the relationship between sociability practices and place identities, including popular associativism and, more recently, Greater Boston, where she has researched ethnicity and the sense of belonging in the Azorean American diaspora. With several authored and co-authored publications, she is currently a researcher in the ExPORT project at ICS - University of Lisbon (FCT- REF. 2022.08653.PTDC - https://export.ics.ulisboa.pt/index.php/en/home-en/. )
Rosália Guerreiro is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at ISCTE IUL where she teaches Landscape Analysis, Urban Design, Cartography, GIS and Space Syntax within the scientific areas of Geography and Urbanism. She completed a degree in Town and Country Planning (1994), University of Aveiro where she received a scholarship for the 5th year at University of the West of England - Bristol. From 1992 onwards she worked in several urban design and architecture studios in Aveiro and Oporto. She also worked as an urban designer for different municipalities. Rosália returned to Lisbon in 1997 to take an MSc in Urban Design at ISCTE IUL (2003). She subsequently studied for an FCT funded PhD in Architecture - specialty of Urban Design (completed 2011) at ISCTE. Rosália is a Researcher at CRIA - Environment, Sustainability and Ethnography (DASE) research group. Her research is anchored in the discipline of space syntax, which provides a scientific approach to studying buildings and cities as socio-spatial systems. Her expertise lies in applying space syntax methods to investigate placemaking - patterns of use and behavior in public spaces along with GIS tools and urban data.
Teresa Madeira da Silva - Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism of Iscte and DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte Integrated Researcher. She is Director of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at Iscte, President of the Cientific Committee of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at Iscte (2022-2025), and Director of the PhD Urban Studies at Iscte (joint PhD between Iscte-IUL and FCSH-UNL) (2019-2024). She integrates the teams of two research projects: UrbanoScenes. Postcolonial imaginaries of urbanization in prospective research. Portugal and Angola, Coord. Simone Tulumello (until 2025-01-14) and CLI-CC.HE - Climate change, cities, communities and health equity. Erasmus + Project, Coord. Rosalba D'Onofrio - Università di Camerino (2022-2024).
Published 11 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals (4 indexed in web science or scopus). Published 3 e-books (2018/2019) and coordinated the edition of another 3 (pedagogical scope 2021/2022), edited by Iscte Repository. Published 15 book chapters and 23 articles in event proceedings. Presented 57 communications in scientific meetings. She coordinated a research project for the Institute of Housing and Urban Rehabilitation (IHRU), which resulted in a service contract between Iscte and IHRU. She was part of the team of a research project The Grand Projects. Architectural and urbanistic operations after the 1998 Lisbon World Exhibition (coord. Paulo Tormenta Pinto).
She coordinated the Summer School Sufficiency strategies in urban architecture at the invitation of the Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUD) (2015), the Specialization Seminar: designing in times of scarcity: temporary occupation in vacant spaces (2014) and the Workshop Collectiv Housing in Tamera Solar Village with the TUD (2012). She collaborates in international networks: the portal of the C. Gulbenkian - Património de Influência Portuguesa and the Permanent Secretariat of CIHEL - Congresso Internacional de Habitação no Espaço Lusófono.
He has taught around 63 Master's and PhD CUs. He was examiner/vocal in 8 doctoral exams and in 5 master's exams. Participated in 76 exams of the integrated master's degree in architecture (21 as examiner) and in 19 juries of the integrated master's degree of the Faculty of Design and Technology of the TU Darmstadt. Supervised 5 PhD theses (3 finished and 2 in progress), 6 Master's dissertations (3 finished and 3 in progress), 31 MIA Final Architectural Project (PFA) projects, 12 concerning the project work and 19 concerning the theoretical component of the PFA. Supervised 6 internships for the Order of Architects (4 concluded). She was coordinator of ECTS of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism (DAU) (2014-2022), member of the Pedagogical Commission of ISTA (School of Technology and Architecture), (2013-2016) and of the Scientific Commission of DAU (2013-2016).
She was Director of Urban Studies Master (2015-2016), coordinator of the 2nd year (2017-2019), 3rd year (2011-2014) and 5th year (2014-2016 and 2020-2021) of the Integrated Master Architecture (MIA) Iscte-IUL. She was a trainee's ombudsman at the Order of Architects between 2014 and 2016.
She has several years of professional experience as an architect and received the Valmor and Municipal Architecture Award 1989 in 1991, in co-authorship.
She works in the field of architecture and urbanism and her scientific interests lie in topics such as: housing; housing programs; teaching and methodologies of architectural design; architectural design; urban and building rehabilitation; urban studies; urbanism of Portuguese origin.
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.