In Presence

This UOU issue, a sort of derived, expanded and deepened elaboration of EURAU Milano 2024, reaffirmed the importance of 'togetherness’, the co-presence of bodies in space as both a social value and a tool for rethinking spatial practices in an age of crises and transition. Collectively, the articles highlight how the relationship between space and the body is not a peripheral concern but a fundamental condition for understanding, designing, and transforming contemporary environments (Pasqui, 2018). They show how spatial practices and theories, when attentive to embodied experience, can engage with a wide range of contemporary challenges - from political to ecological, from the situated to the digital - revealing new, urgently needed trajectories for design research and practice.