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Record Nr.

UNINA9910847593103321

Autore

Messer Karen

Titolo

How to Work with Space : Spatial Knowledge in Organizations and Research Practice / / by Karen Messer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031465413

3031465415

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities, , 2662-1274

Disciplina

306.4613

Soggetti

Industrial organization

Personnel management

Psychology, Industrial

Office management

Organization

Human Resource Management

Work and Organizational Psychology

Office Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1-Entangled Office Space -- Chapter 2- Writing the Invisible -- Chapter 3- Spatial Attunement -- Chapter 4- Emplaced Research -- Chapter 5- Head & Hands Re-Location -- Chapter 6 -Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an exploration of the entangled spatial relationships with and within organizations and research practice. Situating our environment as an active participant in the outcomes of day-to-day living heightens the role space can have as a co-creator of experience, behaviour and emotion. Physical environments tend to fade into the background, becoming an unseen, untended, accompaniment in our journey. However, through active attunement and deep noticing, spatial details arise through our bodies, senses, conversations and physical encounters. As the nature of work continues to evolve, understanding and shifting our relationship with the work environment broadens the scope of how space and work are engaged and performed. This



thoughtful book will be of great interest to academics and students of organisational studies, as well as those involved in interdisciplinary research across geography, anthropology and the social sciences. Karen Messer is a Senior Research Fellow for the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University. Her research focus draws from an interdisciplinary background by taking an embodied and sensorial approach to the often unseen and intangible impact of the physical environment on our day-to-day interactions and relationships. .