Dialogues on the relationship between Spatial and Service Design

The central topic of this study is to identify dialogues on the relationship between Spatial Design (SpD) and Service Design (SD), exploring their disciplinary implications in a theoretical analysis of specific areas of the research landscape through design. The aim is to take a first step towards an approach defined as Service+Spatial (S+S) Design, and the doctoral thesis by the author is a foundational act in this direction. The topic has been studied from a design perspective and from a design culture background in order to attempt a first contribution towards transdisciplinarity, in order to expand on an unexplored gateway into SD, that of SpD. In this contribution, however, the author illustrates only a specific part of the theoretical discourse elaborated, through two “dialogues”. These are meant to explore a wide range of theories and aspects of design that are necessary for the foundational shift towards transdisciplinarity between SpD and SD. “In this contribution, however, the author illustrates only a specific part of the theoretical discourse elaborated, through two “dialogues”. These are meant to explore a wide range of theories and aspects of design that are necessary for the foundational shift towards transdisciplinarity between SpD and SD. The Dialogues act as internal conversations about converging factors across the disciplines to identify an effective “conversation”. They represent the scope of creating supportive structures between SpD and SD, meaning the disclosure of the fundamentals of an S+S design to reconsider the tangibility and intangibility of SD through a spatial perspective.