The paper addresses the question of how architectural design and the changes in organizationalspaces and material artifacts this involves, contribute to the continuous shaping of identities in anorganization. Based upon a case study of an organizational and architectural change process in amunicipality administration, at a time of major political reforms within the Danish public sector, weexplore how architectural design affects the “micro politics” of everyday work to (re)form tasks andprofessional relationships – while also being implicated in the unfolding of a larger political agenda.Aspiring to contribute to the further theorizing of space in relation to the everyday practices andencounters of an organization, we propose the notion of “spacing identity” as a concept that cancapture the processual aspects of organizational space.
Våland et al. (Sun,) studied this question.