Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: New Conference a Success – And a Model

There’s a new workplace design-related conference – and you’ll find it’s worth the time and money required to attend its future sessions. The first Transdisciplinary Workplace Research (TWR)conference was held September 19-21 in Tampere, Finland. Designers and researchers (and sometimes a single person is both!) with a wide range of backgrounds, from around the world, participated in this inaugural event – which lead to interesting, and sometimes powerfully useful, conversations. The conference organizers described the event they coordinated well on their website (http://www.tut.fi/en/twr2018/welcome-to-twr-2018-tampere/index.htm): “This conference aims to bring together work environment researchers from all relevant disciplines, both from academia and practice. This includes, but is not limited to, physical work environment (e.g. facilities management, real estate, architecture and design, building physics (HVCSE), bio-technology), social work environment (e.g. HRM, behavioural sciences, organisational science, business, health, environmental psychology), digital work environment (e.g. ICT, virtual reality), and work environment management (management, economics, FM, …