Alessandra Migliore

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Research Associate at Politecnico di Milano

In recent years work and learning have radically changed to support community-focused, inter-professional, and interdisciplinary engagements. In response, companies and public administrations have been developing networked and dispersed workspaces to grant people access to a variety of places tailored to their needs. Likewise, university campuses h...

Purpose This paper aims to explore how the scientific literature and company reports have addressed inclusive workplace design and strategies to date. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopts a scoping review to answer the following question: To what extent is inclusion present in workplace design and related strategies? An analysis of 27 sci...

Cluster analysis is a data reduction technique used in quantitative research to group observations into mutually exclusive groups. Objectivity and robustness of the results are the strengths of this technique (especially in the case of two-step cluster analysis). In workplace research, scholars have scantly used cluster analysis. Some research has...

Work autonomy, low degree of formalization, and unconventional organizational structure character-ize academic work. These features make academics free to choose their work location, differently from other knowledge workers, whose work location choices are more constrained. In recent decades, thanks to the diffusion of information and communication...

Nowadays the workforce is becoming more diverse. While Corporate Social Responsibility has become key to many organizations, it remains unclear how inclusion, equity and diversity principles are applied in office physical environments. Design for All and Universal Design strategies exist since the 1990s indicating that the built environment should...

In recent years-especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic-work and learning have radically changed to support community-focused, inter-professional, and inter-disciplinary engagements. In response, companies and public administrations have been developing networked and dispersed workspaces to grant people access to a variety of places tailore...

There is little evidence for the impacts of COVID-19 on the ways in which academics work and their chosen location for conducting research. Given that academic work is highly flexible, this chapter explores whether and how the pandemic has altered the use of different locations for academic research and anticipates future trends. The investigation...

Academics are a peculiar category of knowledge workers whose work, by nature, is characterized by undefined time and space and includes individual and collaborative activities. Over the past decades, academics have progressively evolved their typically university-centric way of working towards a hybrid, spatially distributed model that includes hom...

This study undertakes a systematic literature review (SLR) on how the workspace influences female workers and, more generally, gender equality. Within the broader context of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) matters, gender issues have attracted ample attention from scholars and policymakers. However, research on the specific topic of this SLR...

A seguito della diffusione della pandemia da Covid-19, le aziende si stanno ponendo domande cruciali sui propri spazi di lavoro. Quanto spazio mi serve? Di che tipo di spazio hanno bisogno i miei dipendenti per lavorare al meglio? Quali sono i benchmark di riferimento per progettare l’ufficio del futuro? Questo volume non dà una risposta univoca a...

L'articolo riflette sulle contaminazioni di professionalità e discipline nel progetto di architettura. Si propone una prima esplorazione del concetto di ibridazione dei saperi nel progetto degli spazi di coworking. Le esperienze di progettisti e gestori di spazi di coworking, raccolte tramite interviste, fanno emergere molteplici sfaccettature di i...

Purpose This paper aims to explore the extent to which Covid-19 has challenged work habits and outcomes. The authors argue that after the lockdown period workers have been experiencing a new work mode called “Covid-working”. The aim is to provide a first interpretation of this phaenomenon and elaborate on future real estate strategies and workplace...

The gig economy and novel technologies are bringing about new ways of working, living and socialising that are changing common habits in the design, management, and use of space. The built environment is required to be increasingly flexible, which determines a phenomenon of ‘hybridisation’ meaning the co-presence and co-existence of multiple functi...

The debate on public real estate enhancement is prominent and requires innovative strategies to assure economic and social sustainability. This article aims at systematizing the currently available methods and tools of public property enhancement in Italy, proposing a system of criteria to support the public administration (PA) in the decision-maki...

The article reflects on the contamination of professionalisms and disciplines in the architectural project. It proposes a first exploration of the concept of hybridisation of knowledge in the design of coworking spaces. The experiences of designers and managers of coworking spaces, collected through interviews, bring out multiple facets of hybridis...

The issue of the enhancement of public buildings today represents a real challenge for public administrations. The public real estate sector is not yet fully explored and above all is a sector in which the margins of improvement are still very large. The interest raised from the theme came from two substantial needs: understand why over the years -...