IGOT-ULisboa

The Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa (IGOT-ULisboa) is the School of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon. IGOT-ULisboa comprises the Centre of Geographical Studies (CEG), the most prestigious Portuguese research centre in geography, established in 1943. With a team of 154 integrated researchers, 75 of whom are PhD holders, CEG is a leading institution conducting research at national and international level on cutting-edge subjects of contemporary Human and Physical Geography and Spatial Planning. Currently IGOT is involved in several international projects namely: MEHR (Erasmus +), Eu-PolarNet (H2020), Cross-Migration (H2020), Nunataryuk (H2020), Gearing Rules (H2020) as well as several Marie Curie actions: DiasporaLink (RISE) and MigRural (IF) and consultancy (DG Regio).

The Lisbon Urban Lab (LUL) was created as a result of the partnership established between the SMARTDEST/IGOT team and the Municipality of Lisbon (Lisbon Urban Information Center – CIUL). The lab aims at providing a space for co-creation of solutions by local residents, shop owners, local workers, associations and activists, and other stakeholders to perceived local urban issues.

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The Team

Agustin Cocola-Gant

Agustin Cocola-Gant is a Research Fellow at the Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa (IGOT-ULisboa). He holds a PhD in Human Geography (Cardiff University) and a PhD in Art History (University of Barcelona). His research focuses on tourism and urban restructuring and pays particular attention to the connections between tourism and gentrification as well as to the role of Airbnb in driving real estate investment and neighbourhood change. He is the Principal Investigator of the ‘SMARTOUR: tourism, holiday rentals and rehabilitation’ project (funded by the Portuguese Research Council (FCT), €240,000). He teaches International Tourism Geography at the M.A. Tourism and Communication (IGOT-ULisboa).

Eduardo Brito-Henriques

Eduardo Brito-Henriques is a human geographer with particular interests in tourism, heritage and the materiality of memory, cultural landscapes, and urban change. He is Associate Professor at the Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa (IGOT-ULisboa) and Integrated Researcher at its R&D unit, the Centro de Estudos Geográficos (CEG). His areas of teaching include world regional geography, cultural geography, and tourism geography, as well as research methodologies and qualitative methods. Eduardo is the chair of the M.A. in Human Geography: Globalization, Society and Territory, and member of the coordinating committee of the M.A. in Tourism and Communication. At the CEG, Eduardo is co-chair of the research group on Tourism, Heritage and Space. He has published on numerous issues related to tourism, heritage and urban culture, as well as on postindustrial and shrinking cities, ruination and ruinous landscapes, and urban nature.

Franz Buhr

Franz Buhr is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, where he writes about the intersection between mobilities and urban studies. Franz was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow in the framework of the INTEGRIM programme. He currently works on urban change and on how cities accommodate mobile lifestyles. His interests include migration, urban mobilities, navigation, materialities and visual methods. He currently co-coordinates the IMISCOE research initiative PriMob on privileged migration.

Sara Larrabure

Sara Larrabure is an architect and has a master’s degree in human geography (University of São Paulo). She holds specialisation degrees in project management and in computation applied to architecture, urbanism and design. She is currently a PhD student in human geography at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon. Her research project focuses on the ways women experience everyday life in tourism- and leisure-oriented localities, more specifically in Lisbon city centre.

Jorge Malheiros

Jorge Malheiros is a geographer and co-coordinator of the Research Group ZOE (Urban and Regional Change and Policies) at the Centro de Estudos Geográficos. He is associate professor at the Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa (IGOT-ULisboa). He has published widely and developed research projects on migrants’ spatial segregation, housing, Portuguese contemporary demography and migration, and women migration. He isa member of the editorial committee of IMISCOE-Springer (Migration) and Portuguese correspondent of SOPEMI–OECD (2001-2019). Areas of interest: critical urban social geography, international migration, demography and border and transnational relations.

Eduardo Ascensão

Eduardo Ascensão is a is a Research Fellow at the Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa (IGOT-ULisboa). An anthropologist and urban geographer, his research interests are in urban informality, postcolonial urbanism, infrastructure and architecture. His publications include ‘The Slum Multiple’ (IJURR) ‘Interfaces of Informality’ (City) and ‘Slum Gentrification’ (Handbook of Gentrification Studies). He is currently developing a research project on the technoscience of slum intervention in Portuguese-speaking cities: www.technoscienceslumintervention.org. Eduardo is a member of the housing activist collective Habita (Lisbon).