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This chapter elaborates on how the matter of the interior décor of organizational spaces matters in discussions of the socially sustainable futures of organizations. How humans factor in as subjects and agencies of becoming de/humanized is a part of that equation. The argument is that organizational spaces are stages, or scenographies of performances, of material-discursive story configurations that either/or are affecting un/sustainable and in/human actions. Organizational spaces are performative as affective sites of engagements. Those spaces can nurture and engage human relations and, as such, acknowledge and provide the possibilities for being truly Human as bodily, sentient, relational, and responsible beings at work. In the worst case, spaces derive and deplete these human aspects from the lived, everyday practices of the organization. The claim is that, whether we want to or not, the subtleties of our physical surroundings affect us. Something that calls for attention in organizing for the future.

In the first part of the paper I present a definition of becoming that overcomes the irrelevant as well as misleading debates between presentists and eternalists. Since my definition essentially requires an ontology of events occurring in temporal succession, I go on showing that not only the theory of relativity, but also quantum mechanics, in its various interpretations, requires such an ontology, despite the limitations in the possibility of representing quantum processes in a spatiotemporal arena.