Résumé en anglais

Space reconfiguration and architecture is an important element for organizations (Berg & Kreiner, 1992). Thus, a new/building office inauguration is always an important moment of organizational life. It implies great changes and provide a great opportunity to scan organizational culture as long as space translates an organizational habitus (Gagliardi, 1992). Indeed, many studies explore space appropriation, or culture redefinition through a new building or working space (Hofbauer, 2000), but to our knowledge no one got interested into whatever happens before moving. As a matter a fact, in most of the cases, a relocation is something cautiously prepared for organization members to anticipate the upcoming move. So the questions that we will address here are: - How can a future relocation shape present organizational life? - How organization members project themselves in an upcoming space?