Staff and students are invited to a seminar in the Department of Geography and Environment on 11 and 12 September entitled: Diversity of Workplaces and Spaces and Cities. Book your place here.
The 2-day event will be of particular relevance to those interested in work, employment and urban studies.
It will investigate how working spaces and places in cities are changing and what this means for urban systems in terms of infrastructure, urban design and planning. Key questions to be examined include:
- How diverse are the working spaces and workplaces in cities?
- How are working spaces transformed into workplaces?
- Where is formal/informal/precarious work undertaken?
- Are new hybrid places emerging in cities? How regulated/formalised are these?
- How do we have to rethink ‘the journey to work’?
The subject is of wide interest today because of advances in digital technology which enables work to be performed in multiple spaces at any time, posing new challenges in terms of work/life balance.
You can find registration and abstracts here.
This seminar is funded by the Urban Studies Foundation and organised by the University of Southampton in collaboration with the University of Portsmouth and the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE).
For further details, please contact Darja Reuschke, Associate Professor in Geography.
