Serafina Van Godtsenhoven (°1995) graduated in philosophy from Ghent University in 2016, with a dissertation on 'The Other in the Metropolis', an investigation into a community concept based on the notion of 'the Other' from the philosophy of Levinas. In 2019 she obtained her master's degree in Urban Studies in the international programme 4cities, a collaboration between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Universität Wien, Københavns Universitet and the Universidad Madrid. She wrote her thesis on 'The Growth Logics of Climate Adaptation', a critical study on the use of climate adaptive interventions as an urban growth strategy.

Since the end of 2019, Serafina has worked as a researcher at Architecture Workroom Brussels, where she is mainly involved in the strategic trajectories of the Great Renovation. As a young collaborator, she hopes to use her multidisciplinary background, which is mainly at the interface of political and cultural philosophy, social geography and urban sociology, to help critically shape the design agenda. She is mainly interested in socially engaged spatial design and focuses on the field of tension between design practice and the political context.