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This paper constructs a dialogue between design, human activity, technique and technology, within the spaces of urban sociability. In order to understand the social being in its possibilities, choices, contexts and implications with the environment in which it is inserted, the intention was to seek na initial definition for each of these aspects. For that, the concepts were revised from the perspective of some authors and the crossing of these data as a way of understanding the circumstances that are established. When we first dealt with each concept in an isolated way, it was possible to think about the role of design as a transforming agent of a place, human activity linked to the instruments and the environment, technique as the generator of strategies that produce knowledge with the objective to enable a function and technology as a form of organization of social relations. Once contextualizations are made pertinent to each of these aspects, one can perceive the difficulties that arise when they are confronted with the vocations of use of the public places and the diverse interests of planning. It was also observed that in spaces transformed into social places, also by design, it seems logical that much of the effective- nesses and belongings are given from the correct choices in the design decisions. Starting from the idea that social reality is composed of a set of practices articulated among themselves, but with a relative autonomy in the social structure, it seems possible to think of the design in terms of innovations of social practices that favor the way in which the processes are given Collaborative, develop citizenship and stimulate empowerment in new social relations in spaces of urban sociability. Thus, the spatial configuration provisions of the city, having in the design the procedures adopted for the use and development of the actions, were identified here as means of narrowing the connections between the individuals of the civil society and their ways of operating in the city.