This final project for the undergraduate in Design — Communication proposes a critical reflection on how we inhabit urban space, based on the thinking of Henri Lefebvre and other key authors, such as Heidegger, Foucault, Marc Augé, and Zygmunt Bauman. Through the concept of “inhabiting” — understood not only as physically occupying a place, but as a symbolic, social and political appropriation of space — the project questions the contemporary city as a stage for tensions between the individual and power, between freedom and control. In a context marked by inequalities, fragmentation and commodification, urban space is presented both as a product of hegemonic forces and as a potential place of resistance, conflict and collective imagination.

Throughout the work, the idea that inhabiting is an act of creation, of active relationship with space, and not a simple state of permanence, is explored. Returning to Lefebvre's critique of the capitalist production of the city, the growing privatisation of public space and the transformation of the city into a disciplinary setting are problematised. However, it also highlights the subversive capacity of urban space, the possibility of building alternatives that challenge imposed norms. The city, in this context, is simultaneously a territory of oppression and reinvention: a place where one can defend the right to live with dignity, create social bonds and imagine new forms of coexistence.