Prof. Dr. Jamie Scott Baxter
Jamie-Scott Baxter is acting professor for urban design and urban development at HafenCity University Hamburg. 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.
Baxter, J.-S., Heinrich, J., Marguin, S. & Sommer, V. (Ed.) (2025). Spacetimes Matter: A Collection of Mapping Methodologies. Berlin: Jovis Verlag https://www.jovis.de/en/book/9783986122522
Baxter, J.-S. & Marguin, S. (2025). „The Mimetic Qualities of Space: Staging Nature at Botanical Gardens “. In: Fassari, L. and Löw, M. (Eds.), The social quality of public space. Integration, Strategy, Subjectivation, Routledge, London.
Baxter, J.-S., Constantin, L. & Marguin, S. (2025). „Immersive Mapping. Spatiotemporal Drawings in the Metaverse“. In: Baxter, J-S. et al. (eds.), Spacetimes Matter. A Collection of Mapping Methodologies, Berlin: Jovis Verlag.
Baxter, J.-S. & & Sommer, V. (2025). „Diffractive Mapping: Drawing Concepts Together/Apart in Spacetime Analysis“. In: Baxter, J-S. et al. (eds.), Spacetimes Matter. A Collection of Mapping Methodologies, Berlin: Jovis Verlag.
Baxter J., Marguin S., Mélix S., Schinagl M., Singh A. und Sommer V. (2025). For Hybrid Mapping: A Methodological Intervention in Socio-Spatial Research. The Case of the Botanical Garden, Berlin, Architecture and Culture, Vol. 11 (3-4), 249-277.
Baxter, J-S & Marguin, S., (2024) „The Refiguration of Conservation: Introducing the Concept of ‘Staging Nature’ in the Case of Botanical Gardens“, Museum & Society, Vol. 22 (1), 14–33.
Contact Information
Prof. Dr. Jamie-Scott Baxter
jamie.baxter(at)hcu-hamburg.de
Tel: 040 300 880-4178
Room 5.009
Henning-Voscherau-Platz 1
20457 Hamburg