In the Spring semester of 2021 we continued our investigation of the Italian Borgo as a site to rethink contemporary patterns of inhabitation. The research focused on the transforming character of domestic space in which ideas of public and private/ness are continuously negotiated, where the current 'remote-paradigm' has accelerated the ongoing convergence of spaces of work and leisure. If questions revolving around the design of domestic rituals extend from the individual to the collective, from territorial configurations to local conditions, our approach was two-fold, Zooming-in (1) and Zooming-out (2) to think about how to design (at a distance) in an existing context