Design-driven praxis aimed at the transformation of spaces in relation to social and relational practices confront design researchers with the need to develop transdisciplinary approaches. If, on one side, it is impossible to envision a space without its subject matter -encounters, relations, and interactions between human and non-human entities -, on the other any type of service designed to be part of that place relies on a spatial dimension and its material reality is inevitably influences.

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... his assumption raises questions for the design discipline: what happens when the design of spaces and services is intertwined? How can we design the service interaction through the spatial definition? Albeit apparently simple, the relationship between Spatial Design and Service Design still hasn't been fully explored, and this paper aims to contribute filling this gap through a preliminary framework as means to explore a possible scenario of Spatial Design + Service Design (S+S). The paper presents S+S as a potential approach to designing spaces and delivering services as a single entity. In this scenario, the separation of disciplinary design areas ceases, and a design approach emerges, where places and social practices are fully interconnected.