From November 11th to 15th of 2024, 38 students and 7 teachers and researchers from various European institutions met at ISCTE as part of the Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) Erasmus+ (Blended Intensive Programme) “Housing Solutions in the 21st Century Cities: Facing the Affordable Housing Crisis“. This BIP Erasmus+ falls within the scope of the HUB Multidisciplinary Training of Work Package 2 of the project InCITIES.
The participants, who came from Germany (OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts), Belgium (University of Antwerp and Hasselt University), Slovakia (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava), Italy (Università degli Studi di Salerno), Serbia (University of Belgrade) and Romania (“Gh. Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi), worked on the theme of Affordable Housing in Lisbon, under the organisation of researcher Sandra Marques Pereira and Professor Pedro Luz Pinto, both from the Department of Architecture and Urbanism of ISCTE and research centre Dinâmia’CET- ISCTE.
The face-to-face component was preceded by a series of online lectures given by various experts, as Igor Grossmann (University of Waterloo, Canada), Elizabeth Wagemann (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile), Lola Davidson (Director of the French Government’s programme ‘Engagés pour la qualité du logement demain’) and Max Holleran (University of Melbourne, Australia).
In Lisbon, students “learnt by doing”, tutored by both the BIP teachers and by a team of local teachers, researchers and architects. They worked on the central theme of drawing up hypothetical projects for a case study in Odivelas municipality, with the support of architect Mário Cantinho and the Odivelas municipality authority. Beforehand, there were two study visits (affordable housing in Lisbon and an intervention plot in Odivelas) and a series of lectures on the subject of the course, bringing together academics and professionals from the housing sector: Joaquim Montezuma (ISEG), Sónia Alves (ICS), Mário Cantinho (C.M. Odivelas), José Cabral (mediator at Keller Williams), Fernando Vasco Costa (CEO Vizta), Susana Rato and Joana Couto (SRU of Lisboa/ C.M.L). Worth mentioning that the Odivelas municipality is part of AML – Área Metropolitana de Lisboa – which is an InCITIES associated partner.
Further details can be found here.
