Feminist Organizational Placemaking: The Relational Ontology of Place and Feminist Care

How built spaces influence practices of educators’ work: an examination through a practice lens

“…Previous research into the built environment of universities in the Global North has examined a range of trends characterised by an increasing corporatisation of academia. For instance, under the purported rationale of a greater cross-fertilisation of ideas, there has been a shift from academics occupying a single office to open plan [OP] and alternative workspaces (Baldry and Barnes 2012;Van Marrewijk and Van Den Ende 2018;Wilhoit Larson 2018). Yet there has been scant research into how such new, open and flexible workspaces enable and/or constrain practices of academic work, identity and relationships, and what may be the subsequent implications for academics' learning and professional freedoms.…”

“…What is clear from existing studies is that changes to academic workspaces instigate changes to the social, labour, identity, and learning practices of faculty. In turn, these transformations represent significant departures from traditional academic workspaces and the practices that they support (Van Marrewijk and Van Den Ende 2018;Wilhoit Larson 2018). Furthermore, they raise broader questions such as whether the move from a 'room of one's own' has indeed facilitated a breakdown in academic silos and greater cross-fertilisation of ideas or instead led to a form of 'call centre academia' (Wolff 2015, para.…”