Cities are not static but relational constructs that are continuously shaped by the evolving interplay of social practices, collective perceptions of place, and material conditions. As needs, values, and routines shift, the urban landscape transforms leaving behind neglected spaces and fractured traces of past systems. Yet in this accumulation, many of the informal public spaces that once supported everyday sociability have been erased or displaced. These abandoned industrial remnants, often dismissed as obsolete, interrupt the city’s spatial coherence but also contain latent capacities for reactivation and reintegration. This project engages these residual spaces as sites of potential—not through erasure or totalizing redevelopment, but through calibrated interventions that operate within and alongside existing urban rhythms. Drawing from theories of relational urbanism, urban acupuncture, and third place design, The Space Between Us proposes a scalable framework for micro-transformations that refract, rather than overwrite, the logics of the surrounding city; foregrounding the co-production of space as a process of negotiation, encounter, and continual becoming.
The Space Between Us
