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.

The cost of flex-office: rhetoric and reality

By analyzing institutional discourses, internal documents of companies in the real estate sector, the press, stereotypes relating to Flex-office in the literature, it turns out that there is a very optimistic view of this workspace. The Flex-office is perceived as being innovative, a source of sharing and collective well-being while being economical. Our research challenges this idealistic vision by closely investigating the field.

Hajar Eddial

Hajar Eddial

Doctor of Management Sciences, Post-Doc in Worplace Management at ESSEC & Associate Professor at Institut Paul Bocuse

Ingrid Nappi

Ingrid Nappi

Economist, HDR professor at ESSEC, holder of the Real Estate and Sustainable Development and Workplace Management chairs

The services dimension is essential to bring real estate into the IT world

With the acceleration of remote work, companies must more than ever increase the use value of their buildings to make them evolve into fluid, sustainable and secure service platforms. This service-based approach to information systems is essential to the construction of the smart building. Pascal Zératès, Managing Director of Kardham Digital, gives us his analysis.

Tribune published in Alliancy, the digital and business mag (May 2021)

Pascal Zératès

Pascal Zératès

Kardham Digital Managing Director

+33 6 82 55 63 35

pzerates@kardham.com

Rethinking school spaces: the example of Van Gogh college in Blénod les Pont-à-Mousson

The experience of Vincent Van Gogh College in Blénod les Pont-à-Mousson is particularly interesting to share because it reflects the dynamism that can be developed in a college and makes it possible to measure the first effects on the establishment and its actors.

Claude Schmitt

Claude Schmitt

Claude Schmitt

Principal of Vincent Van Gogh College in Blénod-les-Pont-à-Mousson

Positive impact design

Anne Berranger, West Region branch manager of the Kardham Group, takes the pen on in interiors to give her point of view on the role of design in the development of workspaces.

Anne Berranger

Anne Berranger

Consulting Development Director

+33 7 86 55 48 04

aberranger@kardham.com

Remote work and informal exchanges

Each profession has its fads. For the work environment, there is collaboration, transversality and informal exchanges. They are very difficult to qualify. Time spent working together can be measured by time spent working in a group. This is easily identifiable because it is often planned. Transversality is assessed by studying the interactions between individuals and / or teams. But the informal? How to measure and qualify what is not observed with usual forms? What doesn't fit into the well-defined categories?

Marc Bertier

Marc Bertier

Director Surveys & Prospective

+33 1 82 97 02 02

mbertier@kardham.com

Third places enter the game

Third places dedicated to the design of “serious games” are flourishing in France. They demonstrate the need to adapt to new ways of learning. People come there to share knowledge with others, access technologies, innovate in the gaming sector, become more professional and participate in the dynamism of a territory. Focus on these innovative practices.

Violette Nemessany

Violette Nemessany

Sociologue (PhD) - Project Manager at Association Nationale de Recherche et de Technologie (ANRT)