Designing the buildings of tomorrow around innovative uses and new interactions means using academic research. Because we believe in the strength of the collective and in the openness of ideas, we share here, with you, the research conducted by our experts.

Anticipate flexibility needs

Work environments are often the response to a need expressed at a given moment. However, change in organizations is constant and faster than change in locations, and it is not uncommon for a facility to be obsolete by the time it is delivered. That's what flexibility is all about. What are the different ways to approach it?

Marc Bertier

Marc Bertier

Workplace Strategy Expert

+33 1 82 97 02 02

mbertier@kardham.com

Ecological urbanism: from greening to the ecosystem

The greening of the city is today an essential objective to make the city livable and pleasant.

Philippe Clergeau

Philippe Clergeau

Ecologist, professor emeritus at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, member of the French Academy of Agriculture and of the think tank "Groupe sur l'Urbanisme Écologique", director of the collection "Écologies urbaines" published by Apogée

Residential migration and the Covid-19 crisis: towards an urban exodus in France?

The residential desires of the French were the subject of much ink during the Covid-19 crisis. According to the press, outdoor spaces, less dense areas or nature would have made the French dream during the crisis and the months that followed.

Expert - Alexandra Verlhiac

Alexandra Verlhiac

Doctoral Economist - Meilleurs Agents

Working remotely: what are the issues of visibility and recognition?

In recent years, many companies have begun to reconfigure their workspaces, seeking to experiment with new ways of working. The recent pandemic, by imposing a brutal despatialization of work, has been a gas pedal of the transformations underway, notably with the generalization of telecommuting. A large-scale research project conducted within a major insurance company has shed new light on what happens in terms of visibility and recognition when one works remotely.

Expert - Marie Bia Figueiredo

Marie Bia Figueiredo

Senior Lecturer
Institut Mines-Télécom Business School

Expert - Madeleine Besson

Madeleine Besson

Professor Emeritus
Institut Mines-Télécom Business School

Attractivity based working, a new paradigm for desirable environments?

The hybridization of service work - the ability to work from several different locations - questions the future of the workplace. For a year, a group of twenty experts met regularly to imagine a desirable future. Sometimes allowing themselves utopian reflections, the group built a new vision based on attractiveness and the reconciliation of the different points of view that are today exacerbated by the hybridization of work: how to reconcile individual, managerial, organizational and finally societal considerations?

Marc Bertier

Marc Bertier

Workplace Strategy Expert

+33 1 82 97 02 02

mbertier@kardham.com

The struggle for places!

How does the organizational hierarchy materialize in the hierarchy of office spaces in the company?

Delphine Minchella

Delphine Minchella

Teacher-Researcher in Management

Doctorate in Strategic Management

EM Normandie – Laboratoire Métis

 

Expert - Sébastien Bourdin

Sébastien Bourdin

Professor in economic geography at EM Normandie