Profile
In addition to theoretical integration, the coordination of the spatial methods used in the different disciplines involved constitutes a priority for the CRC. In order to synchronise and bring together different methodologies of investigating space within and across disciplines, the CRC has established a unique Method-Lab.
The Method-Lab fulfils three functions, each addressing a particular interface:
- Methods training for the doctoral students with connection to the MGK
- Fostering methodological debates as a cross-cutting issue between the subprojects
- Contributing to public events of the SFB
As head of the Method-Lab, I (Séverin Marguin) organise methods courses for the doctoral students and conduct consultations and internal workshops in the Method-Lab. I create digital and analogue collective infrastructures of research at the SFB (library, e-library, shared data repository, data display) to promote knowledge transfer between CRC members. I organise conferences and workshops to bring external expertise to the CRC on specific methodological topics.
Events
- Workshop «Towards an Empirical Theory of Science? Challenges and (Possible) Standards of Scientific Research Today» from 27.-28.06.2024 (together with Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability)
- Workshop «Comparison Clinic» with Jennifer Robinson and «Mapping Clinic» with Philippe Rekacewicz & Christian Schmid (SoSe 2024)
- Online Lecture Series «Spacetime Matters I» (SoSe 2023) and «Spacetime Matters II» (SoSe 2024)
- Workshop «Visualizing Narrative Spaces» with Simone Ruess (WiSe 2022/23)
- Conference «Relational Spatial Methods» from 16.-17.09.2022 (together with Universität Potsdam and Université Paris Saclay)
- Summer School «Relational Spatial Methods» from12.-15.09.2022 at the CRC (together with Universität Potsdam and Université Paris Saclay)
- Online conference “Video Space Methods” from 04-05.06.2020 at the CRC (together with René Tuma)
- Conference “Positionality Reloaded. Dimensions of Reflexivity in the Relationship of Science and Society” (together with Tim Flink, Julianne Haus, Anna Julianne Heinrich, Antje Kahl, Cornelia Schendzielorz and Ajit Singh), SFB 1265 TU Berlin, HU Berlin, FU Berlin, WZB Berlin, funded by BUA (cancelled due to the Corona pandemic)
- “Refiguring Spaces” series at the House of World Cultures Berlin as an interface between university research and the public, 2018-2020 (together with Janin Walter)
- Conference “Mapping as Joint Spatial Display” from 29-30.11.2018 at the House of Cultures and the World and at the SFB (together with Dagmar Pelger and Jörg Stollmann)
- Data sessions: Discussion of interview guidelines; interview evaluations; photo analysis; mental map analysis; etc. (ongoing since 2018
Publications
- Baxter, J. S., Heinrich, A. J., Marguin, S., & Sommer, V. (eds.) (2025). Spacetimes Matter. A Collection of Mapping Methodologies. Berlin: JOVIS.
- Knoblauch, H., Baur, N., Steets, S., & Marguin, S. (2025). Special Issue. Towards an Empirical Theory of Science? Historical Social Research, 50(2).
- Baxter, J. S., Marguin, S., Mélix, S., Schinagl, M., Singh, A. J., & Sommer, V. (2025). For Hybrid Mapping: A Methodological Intervention in Socio-Spatial Research. The Case of the Botanical Garden, Berlin. Architecture and Culture, 11(3–4), 249–277.
- Heinrich, A. J., Marguin, S., Million, A., & Stollmann, J. (eds.). (2024). Handbook of Qualitative and Visual Methods in Spatial Research. Bielefeld: transcript.
- Marguin S., Haus J., Heinrich A. J., Kahl A., Schendzielorz C. & Singh A. (eds.). (2021). Positionality Reloaded. Debating Dimensions of Reflexivity in the Relationship of Science and Society. Historical Social Research, 46(2).
- Heinrich A. J., Marguin S., Million A., Stollmann J. (eds.). (2021). Handbuch qualitative und visuelle Methoden der Raumforschung. Bielefeld: UTB/transcript.
Direction: Dr. Séverine Marguin
Research Associate: Dr. Christian Haid
Student Assistants: Emil Widmer
Former Research Associate: Claudia Mock
Former Student Assistant: Ines Gartlinger, Luisa Paul