At a time when increasingly communities are responding to the fears of an uncertain future by protection against, distancing from, and exclusion of the foreign, which at some point manifests in the organization of the territory, the built and the lived environment -this research is taking a radically opposite hypothesis: intensifying contact with unfamiliar situations, accelerating the unlearning of established behavioral patterns and questioning thinking habits, can provide a fertile ground for revising a culture of urbanity, learning how to balance personal and collective needs in an art of exchange. In the liminal condition of contact, which can increase the desire for more exchange as well as increase the desire for setting boundaries, spatial design can become a means for regulating relations, orchestrating distance and proximity and playing a leverage role for improving a specific situation.