The transdisciplinary workplace research (TWR) network welcomes both academic and professional researchers to submit their abstracts for presentation at her bi-annual conferences on work environment research. Our conferences aim to bring together work environment researchers from all relevant disciplines, both from academia and from practice.
First TWR2025 Summer School
online: August 25–29, 2025 — on-site: September, 1–5, 2025
The summer school addresses advanced Bachelor’s or Master’s student, who are interested in workspace management and future work environments. The two-week program starts with an online week from August 25–29, 2025, followed by an on-site week in Frankfurt in September. International lecturers and coaches provide engaging theoretical and practical sessions. The team of FUAS offers exciting networking and social activities.
The curriculum covers five compulsory modules (e.g., Future Work, Workspace Transformation) and three elective modules (e.g., Human-Centered Design, Well-Being at Work). During the first week, you will explore these topics in depth and form project groups to work on real-world cases. The second week in Frankfurt offers in-person coaching, daily methodological insights, and opportunities to develop and present your project to corporate partners.
For further information TWR Summer School 2025_Frankfurt_info
Or email: annette.kaempf-dern@fb1.fra-uas.de; Mascha.Will-Zocholl@hoems.hessen.de
TWR2026 will take place September 2-5, 2026 in Zürich, Switzerland, chaired by Lukas Windlinger from ZHAW. A call for abstracts will follow summer 2025.
Topics of our conferences include, but are not limited to:
Abstracts/short papers can focus on issues at an individual, organizational or urban scale.
The conferences provide delegates insight in both current topics and future interests. During 2-3 days of parallel sessions, research findings from many different perspectives are discussed with the audience of researchers and practitioners from around the world. Presenters in the regular parallel sessions (20-30 minutes/paper) have to submit a short paper (max 3500 words, excluding references). For those without a short paper (or with insufficient depth to pass our review procedure) we offer 5-minute presentations, based on abstract-only submissions. The short papers are reviewed by our scientific committee, the abstract-only submissions by the local organising team. All short papers are published in proceedings made available at the conference and open source online on this website.
Besides parallel sessions, the conferences also provide the opportunity to discuss further enhancement of the field in special sessions/workshops aimed at jointly identifying future roadmaps for related sub-themes. These sessions will provide the opportunity for participants to develop transdisciplinary, international research initiatives. Also, pre- and/or post-conference excursions are organised for participants to visit local innovative workplaces, and an attractive social program is available for further networking.
TWR encourages both transdisciplinary and monodisciplinary workplace research that extends theories and/or improves practices. It can be fundamental scientific research or applied research. A list of possible topics that are likely to be discussed at TWR conferences includes, but is not limited to:
Social issues, such as:
Technology issues, such as:
Physical issues, such as:
Management issues, such as:
