Jamie-Scott Baxter is guest professor for urban design and urban development at HafenCity University Hamburg (Oct.25- Oct. 26). At the intersection of design and science, Jamie’s work critically questions the possibilities of urban cohabitation in a planetary age. Addressing this, specific foci include the staging and replication of urban natures, the spatialisation of human-nonhuman relations (especially plant-human) and, more recently, the political ecologies of multispecies health (multispecieshealth.com). Empirically, Jamie has examined these concerns in botanical gardens in Berlin, UK, and Rio de Janeiro (with Séverine Marguin), the spread of fungal plant pathogens in UK, and the self-organisation of material-discursive infrastructures spanning rural-urban space in Portugal, Austria, Brazil, Germany and Indonesia (e.g. riparianstruggles.org). In an ongoing project with Laura Kemmer and David Sperling (DAAD-CAPES PROBRAL), Jamie leads the research group “Planetability” which, through multiple empirical cases in Germany and Brazil, theoretically considers spatial-political forms of urban planetary cohabitation through the interlinked fields of planetary health, planetary thinking, and planetary transformation. He is an associate member of the CRC 1265 Refiguration of Spaces in Berlin and since 2024, visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo. Jamie is joint executive editor at the journal Architecture and Culture. Recent publications include “Spacetimes Matter: A Collection of Mapping Methodologies” published by Jovis Verlag, Berlin.

Prof. Dr. Jamie Baxter
Guest Professor, Urban Design and Urban Development

Atlas
June 18, 2026
Sensing Zones. Atlas 2025/2026

Events
May 8, 2026
08/05/2026 Fachsymposium "Lowtech - Einfach: gerecht?"

Events
April 22, 2026
22/04/2026 Teatime Talk "Spacetimes Matter: Mapping the Planetary" by Séverine Marguin & Jamie-Scott Baxter

Urban Design Projects
April 14, 2026
Urban Design Project II 2026. Re(con)figuring Urban Zones: Design Matters

Courses
March 16, 2026
Critical Spatial Design - Rethinking Design in the Planetary 2026

Events
January 22, 2026
22/01/2026 Teatime Talk "Biomedical Metaphors, Multispecies Perspectives and the Potential of Planetability" by Marisol Marini

Events
November 27, 2025
27/11/2025 Teatime Talk "Technopolitics of Planetability: Multispecies Futures Between Brazil and Germany" by Jonathan Madeira

Urban Design Projects
October 16, 2025
Urban Design Project I 2025/26. Sensing Zones in Urban Everyday Life

Urban Design Projects
October 16, 2025
Urban Design Project III 2025/26. "Red Zones"! - Mapping urban risk and conflict zones