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Drawing on participant observations and interviews within LEGO serious play workshops, the study shows that an abstract, conceived liminal space is created, maintained, and deliberately closed to enable the planned change. 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Findings – The study shows that in change interventions an abstract, conceived liminal space is created, maintained and closed down to enable the planned change to take place. While practicing the space, the change participants may indeed perceive this space as liminal, but the space is less manageable because of their both prescribed and unprescribed interpretations. Furthermore, as subjectively experienced, the space may hold a spectrum of liminal, liminoid and everyday (business as usual) notions.  \nResearch limitations/implications – The study contributes to the research on (1) the spatiality of change interventions and (2) artificially created liminal spaces of organizing.  \nPractical implications – The paper reminds consultants and organizations embarking on change interventions to pay attention to the spatiality of such interventions. The study shows that it is not enough to plan how these spaces are to be used, but also it is equally important to consider how the participants use and experience them.  \nOriginality/value – The study provides a novel insight into change interventions by examining them asliminal spaces that are simultaneously conceived, perceived and lived during the intervention process. Keywords Change interventions, Liminal space, Spatial production  \nPaper type Research paper  \nIntroduction  \nSpatial management and organization studies have flourished during the last decades. For example, identity(Liu and Grey,2018;deVaujany and Vaast,2014), power relations(Dale and Burrell,2008;Zhang and Spicer, 2014), leadership (Hawkins, 2015;Ropo and Salovaara,2019), gender dynamics (Tyler and Cohen, 2010; Wasserman and Frenkel, 2015), and work practices (Cnossen and Bencherki, 2019; Vesala and Tuomivaara, 2018) have been studied from a (socio)material perspective. In their pursuit to better understand the spatiality and materiality of organizing, management and organization researchers join the other social scientists interested in materiality, such as human geographers (e.g. Cresswell, 2015; Massey, 1995; Tuan, 1977), philosophers (e.g. de Certeau, 1984; Foucault, 1977; Lefebvre, 1991) and psychologists (e.g. Becker and Steele, 1995; Gibson, 1966; Graamans et al., 2020) . Often, they also draw inspiration and theoretical perspectives from these studies. Spatial management and organization studies are underpinned by the idea that the social and the material aspects  \n© Siiri Piironen. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4 .0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at [http://](http://)[ ](http://)[creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode](creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode)  \nFunding: This research was funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Finnish Concordia Fund.  \nSpatial studies of change interventions  \n39  \nReceived 10 March 2021 Revised 24 August 2021  \n13 December 2021 Accepted 27 April 2022 ","cbCaicr2XZ3eut8q","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicr2XZ3eut8q","pdf",171417,15,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Spatial management and organization studies\n## Change interventions and liminal spaces\n# Spatial studies of change interventions\n## Research limitations and implications\n## Practical implications\n## Originality and value","[{\"question\":\"What is the main purpose of the study on change interventions?\",\"answer\":\"The study conceptualizes change interventions as liminal spaces and examines how these spaces are conceived, perceived, and lived during the intervention process.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the research investigate liminal spaces in the context of LEGO serious play workshops?\",\"answer\":\"It uses participant observations and interviews to explore how a liminal space is created, maintained, and closed down within the workshops.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the study find about participants' ability to manage the liminal space?\",\"answer\":\"Participants may perceive the space as liminal, but the space is less manageable because it includes both prescribed and unprescribed interpretations, producing a range of liminal-related experiences.\"}]","Producing liminal spaces for change interventions - the case of LEGO serious play workshops | PDF",38]