RE-DWELL. Workshop 1 (Lisbon)

Three international workshops have been planned to take place in Lisbon (2021), Zagreb (2022)and Budapest (2023) as part of the RE-DWELL project. The first of these workshops, organizedby the ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, has been carried out during the first year of theproject activities in Lisbon, from September 22 to 24, 2021. This report focuses on the results ofthe first workshop in Lisbon. The theme of three-day workshop was “Design, planning and building”, encompassing five subthemes:Sustainable Planning; Industrialized Construction; Green Building; Building Retrofittingand Urban Regeneration; Housing Design Education. The programme was structured to fulfilvarious objectives: to follow-up the development of the ESRs’ research by fostering networkingbetween the individual research projects, to conduct training activities related to ongoingstructured courses (RMT1 and TS1), and to engage external stakeholders in the network actions(non-academic sectors, local administrations and civic organizations, dealing with sustainableand affordable housing). Each of two local partner organisations -CASAIS and LisbonMunicipality- were in charge of one session of the programme. 15 ESRs (one online), 10 supervisors/co-supervisors (7 in-person) and representatives of the twolocal partner organisations participated in the workshop. Some preparatory work was carriedout by the ESRs (an abstract of their research projects, written and presented in an A1 poster).The posters were presented in a public exhibition at the Centro de Informação Urbana deLisboa, where the sessions took place. The exhibition fomented a group discussion on therepresentation of a research project by means of a poster. The workshop activities included lectures by representatives of the Lisbon Municipality, CASAISengineers, external invited guests and professors from ISCTE-IUL specialized in the differentsubjects encompassed in the topic (participation, sustainability and housing policies), guidedvisits to the BIPZIP neighbourhoods and in a CASAIS building site. There were two sessionsdedicated to the two ongoing courses: “Research, Methods and Tools 1” and “TransferrableSkills 1”. Flora Samuel moderated a public online roundtable with four guest researchers, whichwas followed by a discussion with ESRs, and Karim Hadjri and Krzysztof Nawratek gave lecturesand organized group activities on transferable skills. This work carried out in the Lisbon workshop was a step forward in understanding thesignificance of transdisciplinary approach when dealing with affordable and sustainablehousing in Europe. The work reported in this document will inform the subsequent networkactivities. The report is also useful for faculty members from other institutions to learn aboutthe work done in RE-DWELL.