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Prof. Dr. Jamie Baxter

Guest Professor, Urban Design and Urban Development

 

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.