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CITAD intends, through the Strategic Project for the period 2020-2023, to consolidate the increasing scientific production and to materialize its strategic vision of an Interdisciplinary Center of Excellence.

Sustainability issues are a strategic objective in the framework of CITAD, here understanding sustainable development as the resolution of our problems without jeopardising the possibility of new generations to address and solve their own problems.

Likewise, the subject of cultural identity is also a major strategic objective in CITAD agenda, studying architecture, city, territory, design and art related phenomena. The research and study of these diverse artistic and cultural phenomena is understood as a scientific process to address cultural identity, which comprehends environmental, technological, traditional, contemporary and transdisciplinary aspects.

CITADelected the following comprehensive themes:

• Inter and transdisciplinarity in Architecture;
• City and Landscape;
• Urban Rehabilitation;
• Sustainable Construction, and Energy Efficiency;
• Housing and Heritage;
• Design.

Within this scope, the following matters are addressed by the Research Groups:

• The search for the cultural identity of architecture, in general, and of Portuguese architecture, in particular, in the contemporary world, from a humanist, multidisciplinary and inter and transdisciplinary perspective, privileging relationships between theory and practice in architecture and also searching for the identities of the city and the landscape in contemporaneity. These searches are embodied in an epistemic, holistic and sustainable perspective;
• Building materials and technologies, energy efficiency and waste reduction and transformation, within the scope of circular economy and sustainable construction principles, minimising the negative environmental impacts produced by the construction industry and understanding the rehabilitation of the built environment in a perspective of sustainability and cultural identity, to the resolution of today's problems without compromising future generations in the resolution of their own problems;
• Interdisciplinary analysis and study of the architectural object and literature as a support for intervention in Heritage and for the understanding of a theoretical and historical thought to define the cultural identity of Portuguese Architecture;
• The understanding of Design as a contribution to new ways of thinking, projecting, producing and consuming, in order to intend the sustainable balance between the human being, culture, the built and natural environment, with special focus on innovation and quality, user centered experience and interaction Design in Product/ Service/ Communication/ Environment systems.

Keywords: Sustainability Cultural Identity Inter and Transdisciplinarity Contemporaneity Technologies Built Environment