This book draws a line of reasoning collecting many voices around the project theme of urban interstitial spaces In-between in the era of globalization and diffuse city and how the discipline of Spatial Design is concretely able to give an effective and original contribution.It collects ideas, reflections, researches and projects developed in collaboration with professors, researchers, practitioners and students, run mainly in the academia context - in Italy at the School of Design, Politecnico di Milano and in England with the University of Brighton, Faculty of Arts - while of course related to the international research and project culture.

Giovanna Piccinno
Giovanna Piccinno - Architect and Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Milano (IT), INDACO Department, School of Design, where she performs teaching and research activities. She investigates and develops projects in the fields of architecture and design. Deals with Urban Design and Spatial Design carrying out applied researches. She established in 2009 and coordinates the Spatial Design Teamwork, an international research group dealing with applied research issues for the design of heterotopic spaces of the diffuse contemporary cities. She was selected by the Ministry of Innovation of the Italian Government to attend Expo Shanghai 2010 'Italia degli Innovatori' with the research project '100 Virtuous Cities'. Member of the ADI Permanent Design Observatory for the 'Compasso d'oro' award in the thematic committee 'Company research'. Professor of the PhD School at Politecnico di Milano in the Doctoral program in Design. She was part of the 'Sistema Design Italia - SDI'.Elisa Lega - Doctor in Design, lecturer at the School of Design, Politecnico di Milano (IT). She graduated in Interior Design at Politecnico di Milano where she also completed her PhD research with the dissertation title of'A transdisciplinary investigation of the role of Spatial Design for the understanding of In-between urban spaces', analysing new spatial conditions within the urban transformation processes. Since 2006 has been collaborating with INDACO Department - Industrial Design, Arts, Communication and Fashion -Politecnico di Milano where in 2009 she also joined the Spatial Design Teamwork, a research group dealing with the spreading of new typologies of spaces and places in the territory of the third millennium. Her research fields are related to the contemporary dynamic condition of urban spaces in order to define innovative strategies to give them value through Spatial Design approaches and practices.

Elisa Lega