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Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus Competition 2024 | Lab2PT
30/09/2024 a 20/10/2024
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Lab2PT – Landscape, Territory and Heritage Laboratory welcomes individual proposals for the Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus Competition – 7th edition, announced by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), and open between September 30th and November 29th.
The Individual Scientific Employment Incentive Competition is aimed at doctors, nationals, foreigners and stateless people, with a background in any scientific area, who wish to develop their scientific research or technological development activity in Portugal.
In this edition, the candidate can compete at two levels:
1) Junior researcher – PhD holders for 5 years or less, counted on the closing date of the application submission period, with limited post-doctoral research experience in the scientific area to which they are applying
2) Assistant researcher – PhD holders at the closing date of the application submission period, with a relevant CV in the scientific area to which they are applying
Lab2PT is an R&D unit at the University of Minho that includes researchers from the School of Architecture, Art and Design and the Institute of Social Sciences. Its lines of research integrate the areas of Arts and Humanities, covering Architecture, Urbanism, History, Archeology, Design, Visual Arts, Geography and Geology. Its guiding principle is the convergence of knowledge in order to establish its prominence in the fields of Landscape, Territory, Heritage, Society, Technology and Representation. The breadth, variety and transdisciplinary scientific nature of Lab2PT is revealed through its 3 research groups, organized according to UD\’s identity principles and its specific objectives: LandS/Landscapes and Societies; DeTech/Project and Technology; SpaceR/Space and Representation.
The Landscapes and Societies (LandS) group adopts a holistic approach to understand the productive/inhabited landscape across diverse temporal, human and physical scales. Through broad landscape and territory readings, the group examines extractive and productive activities and their impacts in the search for sustainable solutions.
The Landscapes and Societies (LandS) group brings together researchers from the domains of Arts & Humanities and Human and Earth Sciences, promoting fundamental and applied research.
The group’s contributions respond to 4 guiding lines: 1) Resources and soil use: through broad readings of the physical support, taking into account extractive and productive actions and their impacts on the environment, in the long term, in search of sustainable solutions; 2) Settlements, communities, and forms of occupation: considers the landscape evolution interconnecting the discourses of history, archaeology, and architecture, in a dynamic perspective of human heritage and propositional of resilient futures; 3) Social practices and materialities: studies, in a cross-cutting manner, the scales of human expression (artefact, built space, techniques, crafts, and manifestations of society) in the variability of traces and records; 4) Powers and scales: questions instances of modeling and representation of the social that intersect and configure discourses and instances of power.
Keywords: Resources and soil use; Settlements, communities, and forms of occupation; Social practices and materialities; Powers and scales
The Design and Technology (DeTech) group is distinguished by its intensive lab activity that not only supports its dynamics but also interacts with other groups’ activities. This alliance opens up disciplinary domains, thus expanding interdisciplinary collaborations.
The Design and Technology (DeTech) group contributions respond to 4 guiding lines: 1) Conservation, rehabilitation, and circularity: focuses on a wide range of actions on heritage proposing (re)readings of tectonics in their technical and expressive dimensions, as well as in the material sedimentation and knowledge; 2) Materials and construction: studies of materials (new and/or reused), manufacturing processes, and construction techniques applied to industry, incorporating contemporary socio-environmental challenges; 3) Computational Design and AI: improvement of design processes through the interference of technologies in ways of thinking, conceiving, and making, as well as the languages that result from them; 4) Design for Human Experience: investigates the user experience, based on social participation and values of equity, inclusion, accessibility, and sustainability.
Keywords: Conservation, rehabilitation, and circularity; Materials and construction; Computational Design and AI; Design for Human Experience
The Space and Representation (SpaceR) group explores disciplinary boundaries to achieve full transdisciplinary knowledge, engaging with various social and geographical scales from a broad cultural perspective. Activities focus on visual culture and contextualised practices and projects, fostering collaboration with the community seen both as a contributor and knowledge beneficiary. Additionally, the group conducts consolidated studies on creative tourism and reinterprets heritage domains to activate communities and landscapes.
The Space and Representation (SpaceR) contributions respond to 4 guiding lines: 1) Visual culture, built and imagined space: prioritises the domains of the image both as study object and methodological and communicational support, delving into the broad universe of analytical, cognitive, symbolic, and creative representation, revealing phenomena of cultural and social expression; 2) Practices and project in context: unveils propositional dynamics and cultural creation that invoke the exercise of disciplinary practices open to collaboration and interaction with/from the community, understood as an agent and recipient of knowledge; 3) Creative tourism and sustainability: reinterprets heritage domains (material, immaterial, and human) activating communities and landscapes in interaction with challenges posed by climate change; 4) Historical futures: trans-chronological understanding of subjects aiming for critical readings of the past that underpin proposals for resilient futures.
Keywords: Visual culture, built and imagined space; Practices and project in context; Creative tourism and sustainability; Historical futures
Research at Lab2PT is carried out at the Institute of Social Sciences, on the Gualtar Campus and in the Congregados Building, in the city of Braga, and at the School of Architecture, Art and Design, on the Azurém and Couros campuses, both in the city from Guimarães.
Lab2PT is characterized by a high laboratory intensity, the result of a strong investment made in recent years in equipment and laboratory training, operating on different fronts (more particularly in relation to activities in the areas of Architecture, Archeology and Arts and Design) and in different locations: UMinho Archeology Unit, in Braga, next to CEAUM (Study Center of the School of Architecture), LCT (Construction and Technology Laboratory), ARENA (Advanced Design & Technology Lab), Advanced Ceramics R&D Lab, Lab 1 (Prototyping laboratory), Lab 2 (Digital manufacturing laboratory) and Garagem Avenida workshops (molds and pastes, textiles, ceramics and printing), the latter in Guimarães.
In these laboratories, R&D activities cross with other teaching activities, in an essential permeability for the development of work, as well as the provision of services abroad. The installed laboratory capacity responds to the breadth of Lab2PT actions, being an indispensable vehicle for collaboration between researchers, public and private institutions, consolidating the interdisciplinarity sought.
Candidates who wish to have Lab2PT as a host institution must submit an application for prior consideration by the Lab2PT Directive Committee, which meets the objectives and its thematic lines of investigation and research between September 30th and October 20th for the email address: sec@lab2pt.uminho.pt.
The results of acceptance of applications will be communicated by November 4th.
The proposal must contain the following elements:
- – Full name
- – Brief CV
- – Summary of the project to be presented (objectives, methodology and expected results, max: 3 pages)
- – Coordination with Lab2PT’s objectives and lines of research
More information about the Scientific Employment Incentive Competition – 7th edition: HERE