ABSTRACT
For its healthy academic and professional development, facilities management needs to be linked in to the key theoretical and political debates of the day. This chapter addresses the important link between facilities management and social theory. It will discuss the relationship between the conceptual background to western spatiality and critical theory. It will argue that the physical infrastructure of work is one of the most important aspects of spatial experience for many individuals and plays an active role in social processes. It will also argue that facilities management, as a discipline that mediates between employees and employers via the physical workplace, has a contribution to make to the development of social theory. In doing so, it attempts to link facilities management back to the mainstream social and organisational disciplines and provide a route for facilities management to contribute to contemporary social debates.
