The Mobile Office:

This paper examines the ways in which women use laptops to construct a flexible workspace in multiple environments. This phenomenon of the mobile office raises questions about the psychology of space with respect to domestic and public spaces, the role ‘things’ play in creating ‘place’, and the implications for interior design. An autoethnographic approach provides the stimulus for this analysis. The Mobile Office: An autoenthnographic account Emma Gieben-Gamal and Juliette MacDonald : University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom spaces? If one considers the changes brought about as a result of homes and workplaces becoming separated in the course of the industrial revolution, one starts to see the enormity of such questions given the economic, social and political changes which accompanied this division.