Social and economic poverty and vulnerability are increasing, accompanied by growing difficulties in accessing adequate housing and welfare equipment. Ensuring the right to the city for all (Lefebvre), in fact, requires more than affordable housing. A decent and autonomous life also depends on access to collective spaces and facilities. Consequently, imagining new forms of co-living among diverse individuals and social groups, as well as enhancing the usability of service networks, has become a key challenge in building inclusive and resilient cities – starting at the neighbourhood scale. The exhibition presents the outcomes of the Design Laboratory of Urban Regeneration and Town Planning, with a focus on Barriera, a semi-central district of Trieste. The projects address the organisation of spaces essential to everyday life and personal autonomy – housing, schools, civic centres, public and green areas, and social and health care services. Barriera is re-imagined as a capacitating neighbourhood – a spatial, environmental, and social supportive infrastructure helping rebalance urban territories from material and immaterial, physical and interaction perspectives (Secchi). On the one hand, the spatialisation of poverty and vulnerability provides lens to explore the relationship between various forms of fragility and urban space. On the other hand, the neighbourhood is envisioned as a place where persons – regardless of their material, physical, or social conditions – can be capacitated (Sen, Nussbaum) to lead fulfilling lives. From this perspective, urban design is called upon to transcend the dichotomy between domestic and collective spaces, proposing instead integrated systems of indoor and outdoor environments where life unfolds inside and outside the homes (Gehl).