REMAKING PROJECT

Osservatorio smart working POLIMI
2024-04-23 | Milan, Italy
The Smart Working Observatory was set up in 2012, as part of a broader research context that had been studying the evolution of the way we work for more than ten years.
-Participant: Politecnico Di Milano ‘‘Impatto del lavoro a distanza sul territorio. ​Tre scenari per la città di Milano​’ (POLIMI)’

CGR & IS-MBS Seminar series 2023-24
2024-04-23 | Online
Presentation: ‘The surge of remote working and coworking spaces. ​Exploring the case of Italy through mixed methods.’ (POLIMI)

PRIN Escapes project conference
2024-05-16 | Milan, Italy
Presentation: ‘Spazi ibridi in aree periferiche e rurali come luoghi di benessere e innovazione’ (POLIMI)’

40th EGOS Colloquium 2024
2024-07-04 - 2024-07-06 | Milan, Italy
The purpose of the 40th EGOS Colloquium 2024 – hosted by the University of Milan-Bicocca – is to investigate what elements represent the crucial crossroads for organizations of the present and the next future.
-Presentation of research on digitalised worplaces (IRS)

XLV Conferenza scientifica AISRe – Città e regioni nell’era digitale. La sfida della transizione verso l’economia circolare
2024-09-04 - 2024-09-06 | Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy
The AISRe Conference, to be held in Turin from 4 to 6 September 2024, offers a rich programme with over 500 contributions, distributed in Organised and Spontaneous Sessions, Plenary Sessions and Round Tables.
Presentation: The quality of work during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: does the workplace matter? (POLIMI)

XXI Workshop CiMET
2024-09-18 - 2024-09-20 | Enna, Italy
The ‘CiMET Workshops’ are annual meetings dedicated to the discussion of papers and research projects on the topics that characterising the activities of the CiMET network of researchers: the dynamics of structural change in the economy and society, the internationalisation of enterprises and territories, the dynamics of local development, industrial policies industrial policies, interventions in favour of innovation, research and knowledge, government practices aimed at to promote economic and social development.
Participants: Marco R. Di Tommaso (UNIBO), Elena Prodi (UNIBO), Patrizia Leone (UNIBO), Laura Vici, Pierpaolo Pattitoni, Riccardo Leoncini
Project’s presentation by Marco R. Di Tommaso, Elena Prodi, Ilaria Mariotti, Patrizia Leone, Laura Vici, Pierpaolo Pattitoni, Riccardo Leoncini
Special session REMAKING project:
– Remote working: multiple impacts in an age of disruptions. A systematic literature review (Elena Prodi)
-Navigating the New Normal: An Overview of Remote Working Policies Across Europe (Federica Maria Rossi, Dimitris Manoukas, Ilaria Mariotti)
-Mobility in Times of Remote Working (Patrizia Leone)
-Territorial Transformations (Ilaria Mariotti, Federica Maria Rossi, Dimitris Manoukas)

22nd European Week of Regions and Cities Empowering Communities
2024-10-07 - 2024-10-10 | Brussels, Belgium
The European Week of Regions and Cities is an annual four-day event during which cities and regions showcase their capacity to create growth and jobs, implement European Union cohesion policy, and prove the importance of the local and regional level for good European governance.
‘Empowering rural areas through innovation and entrepreneurship’ workshop’ chaired by Ilaria Mariotti (POLIMI)

2024 RSA Winter Conference
2024-11-07 | London
The Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2024 presents a timely opportunity to champion a positive agenda for regional change and development. The event provided an important platform to come together, to discuss and debate the future of regions and regional studies, to establish the need and nature of future research imperatives in the field, and to assess options for practitioners and policymakers in working towards brighter regional futures.

‘Revived Collaborative Workspaces and the Local Youth: A Spatial Approach to Case Studies from Spain, Denmark, and Ireland” (Dimitris Manoukas, Politecnico Di Milano)

MSCA CORAL-ITN Final conference
2024-11-11 - 2024-11-13 | Romantso Creative Hub, Athens, Greece
The conference marks the end of the CORAL – ITN project whose mission is to understand the role and impact of collaborative workspaces (CWS) in rural and peripheral areas of Europe. During the two day conference, early stage researchers, invited speakers from CWS industry and policy making will meet to discuss CWS in relation to global economic trends, regional development, communities and individuals from the perspective of various disciplines. The purpose is to focus on the phenomenon of CWS (i.e. coworking spaces, makerspaces, fablabs, creative and innovation hubs etc.) that are located primarily in rural or peripheral and remote areas. Research on this topic is emerging in recent years from numerous disciplines such as regional development and planning, rural studies, geography, business and management, sociology, architecture, design and economics.

‘Navigating the New Normal: Remote Working Policies across Europe’ (Dimitris Manoukas, Ilaria Mariotti Federica Rossi (Politecnico di Milano))

Social Innovation National Workshop
2024-12-05 | Bologna
The workshop, to be held on Thursday 5 and Friday 6 December 2024 at the Auditorium of the Department of Economic Sciences of the University of Bologna, Piazza Scaravilli 2, Bologna, is sponsored by the GRINS (Growing Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable) Foundation, with a focus on the research activities of Spoke 8, coordinated by the University of Catania.
Presentation: ‘Prospettive e Traiettorie sulla Riorganizzazione Sociale del Lavoro​ (UNIBO)’

TSM Seminar: Luoghi di lavoro e territorio: nuove opportunità e nuove connessioni nel lavoro di oggi e del futuro
2024-12-06 | Sala Nones – Palazzo Benvenuti, Trento, Italy
Participant: Ilaria Mariotti (Politecnico Di Milano): ‘L’impatto del lavoro a distanza sul territorio. Quali i punti di forza del territorio trentino?’

In-betweenness: spatial and temporal perspectives on working and organizing
2025-01-23 - 2025-01-24 | Milan, Italy
REMAKING’s consortium members Patrizia Leone, Ilaria Mariotti, Elena Prodi, Dimitris Manoukas and Federica Rossi will explain the details of the project.
Presentation of the paper “Exploring life satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. Did hybrid working play a role?” (Vincenzo Alfano ; Ilaria Mariotti; Federica Rossi)
The Scientific Coordinator of REMAKING, Marco R. Di Tommaso is one of the keynote speakers of the symposium giving a speech to the audience entitled “Industrial territorial development policies: remote working opportunities and challenges”.
Participants: Chiara Tagliaro, Ilaria Mariotti, Dimitris Manoukas, Federica Maria Rossi (Politecnico di Milano), Marco R. Di Tommaso (Keynote speaker, University of Bologna)

XXIII SIEPI Annuale Workshop
2025-01-30 - 2025-01-31 | Bologna
Participants: Ilaria Mariotti and Federica Rossi (Politecnico di Milano)
Ilaria and Federica will present two papers related to the work carried out in Remaking: on the one hand, about European home workers’ job satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic, and on the other, about the influence of flexible working arrangements on the change of residence in the Lombardy region. Further, the first piece of research will be presented in a session entitled “Labour market and human capital”, which was chaired by Ilaria Mariotti.

Stakeholder Workshop Berlin
2025-02-27 | Berlin
Stakeholder Workshop: Presentation of the project to local experts in Ukrainian refugees’ labour market integration (IRS)

The Nordic-Baltic Remote Work Conference
2025-05-13 | Põlva County Development Centre, Põlva County, Estonia
Participants: Dimitris Manoukas and Luca Alfieri (Politecnico di Milano)

XXII Workshop CiMET
2025-06-11 - 2025-06-14 | University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
The ‘CiMET Workshops’ are annual meetings dedicated to the discussion of papers and research projects on the topics that characterising the activities of the CiMET network of researchers: the dynamics of structural change in the economy and society, the internationalisation of enterprises and territories, the dynamics of local development, industrial policies industrial policies, interventions in favour of innovation, research and knowledge, government practices aimed at to promote economic and social development.

Participants:
REMAKING Europe Horizon Project
Moderator: Ilaria Mariotti
Job satisfaction of remote workers in Europe
Marco Biagetti, Giuseppe Croce, Ilaria Mariotti, Federica Maria Rossi, Sergio Scicchitano
Should I stay or should I go? Remote workers in the Lombardy region
Luca Alfieri, Ilaria Mariotti, Federica Rossi
Remote Work, Spatial Flexibility, and Inequalities in Mobility: Evidence from Bologna
Giuseppe Pignataro, Patrizia Leone
REmote-working Multiple Impacts in the Age of Disruptions: Socioeconomic Transformations, Territorial RethinKING, and Policy Actions: The Current Debate and Some Selected Research Trajectories
Marco R. Di Tommaso, Patrizia Leone, Elena Prodi
Zooming In on Satisfaction: How Does Hybrid Working Shape Life Satisfaction?
Vincenzo Alfano, Ilaria Mariotti, Federica Rossi

AISRE XLVI Conferenza scientifica annuale, 2025
2025-09-10 - 2025-09-12 | Università “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, Pescara
The central theme of the conference will be that of territorial inequalities between regions, cities, urban and rural areas, in an international context characterized by sudden changes and radical transformations.
REMAKING will have its own special session where members of the project will explain the work being carried out.

Researchers’ Night
2025-09-26
As part of this year’s Researchers’ Night—a nationwide science popularisation event bringing together institutions across Czechia—members of the REMAKING consortium from The Prague University of Economics and Business (VŠE) hosted an immersive workshop inviting visitors to reflect on migration in Prague.

Digital Nomads Across the Globe Housing, Planning, and Sustainable Future
2025-11-13 | Lisbon, Portugal
Antigoni Papageorgiou from European Cretive Hubs Network, Tiago Santos Pereira and Eugenia Pires from CoLABOR and Jan Bednorz from Visionary Analytics will participate in the event in Lisbon.

2025 RSA Regional Futures Conference
2025-11-13 - 2025-11-14 | The Cumberland, Great Cumberland Place, London, United Kingdom
Ilaria Mariotti (Politecnico di Milano) will participate with the paper ‘Hybrid Working as the New Normal? Impacts on Life Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance in Knowledge Workers’ written with Federica, Laura Vici and Piet Pattinoni, based on the data of the REMAKING survey.

Seminar on Remaking topics at the Department of Economics of the University of Kerala in Trivandrum
2025-12-17 | University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Riccardo Leoncini from Università di Bologna was invited to hold a seminar at the Department of Economics of the University of Kerala in Trivandrum, India
Leoncini’s presentation was based on the chapter “Remote Working. Some critical considerations from a multidisciplinary point of view”, from the forthcoming REMAKING book.

Remaking Bologna Metropolitan City
2026-01-19 | Sala Tassinari, Palazzo D’Accursio, Piazza Maggiore 6, Bologna, Italy
Several REMAKING member will interact on broad societal topics in relation with remote working.

International Academic Symposium on Cultural Technology and Social Innovation and Expert Meeting on Talent Development
2026-01-19 | Assumption University in Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
On January 19th, REMAKING partner Ilaria Mariotti (Politecnico di Milano) took part in the International Academic Symposium on Cultural Technology and Social Innovation and Expert Meeting on Talent Development, held at Assumption University in Bangkok.

Il Lavoro da Remoto e lo Sviluppo Locale Esperienze e Sfide per un percorso giusto e equilibrato
2026-01-20 | Sala Consiglio, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Chimica, Ambientale e dei Materiali –, Bologna, Italy
Event of the REMAKING’s Il Lavoro da Remoto Post-pandemia Focus Group

Il Lavoro da Remoto e lo Sviluppo Locale Esperienze e Sfide per un percorso giusto e equilibrato
2026-01-22 | Comune di Castiglione dei Pepoli, Bologna, Italy

REMAKING Seminar
2026-02-02 | Aula Donatori, Politecnico di Milano, piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, Milan, Italy
Remote Working Arrangements and their effects on individuals, organisations and territories
This REMAKING seminar focuses on remote working and its impact on individuals,
organisations and territories. Several international researchers will present their
latest research papers at the seminar. Following each 20-minute paper presentation,
there will be a 10-minute discussion led by one of the invited researchers.
AGENDA

R-Map sister project workshop
2026-02-04 | Palazzo Marino, Milan
Ilaria Mariotti from Politecnico di Milano joined the discussion. She presented a paper exploring how remote work could reshape where people live and how cities evolve by 2050.

REMAKING Workshop
2026-02-12 | Aula Consiglio, Edificio 29, Politecnico di Milano, piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 26, Milan, Italy
The workshop is dedicated to analysing remote working and the effects of its implementation on people, organisations and territories. The seminar opens with the presentation of the results of a study on smart working in the Municipality of Milan and continues with a round table discussion involving national and local stakeholders.
AGENDA

Innovazione nella Pubblica Amministrazione. Rinnovi contrattuali, percorsi di carriera e qualità del lavoro pubblico
2026-03-12 | Palazzo Wedekind, Rome, Italy
The event brought together representatives from public administration, academia, and policymaking to discuss key challenges and opportunities for innovation in the public sector.

EIREST seminar at the Sorbonne, Paris
2026-03-30 | Paris, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Karolina Kania, VSE, delivered a presentation titled “Digital Displacement: Transnational Remote Work and the Practice of ‘Double Nomadism’ among Ukrainian Displaced Knowledge Workers in Prague”.
