Séverine Marguin is a cultural sociologist and deputy professor for 'Spatial Sociology and Interdisciplinary Spatial Research' at HafenCity University Hamburg. In this role she is involved in the Grako "Urban future-making: Professional agency across time and scale" at the HCU. Her interdisciplinary teaching and research focus on cultural fields, knowledge production, sociology of space, natureculture relationships, experimental and design-based methods. In her current DFG funded research project “Afronovelas: Spatial Stories and Production Regime in West-African Soaps” within the CRC 1265 Refiguration of Spaces at the Technische Universität Berlin, she develops a sociological perspective on the fictionalization of spaces. In her seed-funded research project “The Refiguration of Nature Conservation: The Case of Botanical Gardens”, she develops mapping methodologies (in particular spacetime mappings) at the intersection of sociology and architecture. She is joint executive editor at the British Journal Architecture and Culture.