GraDiM
Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality: Visualizing a Photo Archive About Diaspora
Digital Images
Viktoria Brüggemann and Mark-Jan Bludau present the GraDiM project at the SPP Final Conference »Digital Images and the Authoritarian Turn: Visualization, Manipulation, Control.« at the Philipps-Universität Marburg.
Governing Phygital Spaces: Human Rights by Design Meets Speculative Design.
Smart glasses and AI-powered “phygital spaces” are transforming how people perceive, navigate, and interact with the world. Yet existing regulatory frameworks - Privacy by design and Human Rights by design - focus narrowly on data protection and …
Berlinische Galerie
The Raoul Hausmann Collection Visualization by Mark-Jan Bludau is part of the exhibition »Raoul Hausmann. Vision. Provocation. Dada.« at the Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art.
Textarium: Entangling Annotation, Abstraction and Argument
We present a web-based environment that connects annotation, abstraction, and argumentation during the interpretation of text. As a visual interface for scholarly reading and writing, Textarium combines human analysis with lightweight computational …
IPPSO
Exploring the Future of Phygital Public Spaces
MA Studio for Speculative Software
The Master Studio for Speculative Software is dedicated to the design and exploration of creative, experimental software user interfaces. The studio pushes the boundaries of data visualisation and interaction design and invites students to speculate on the future of software.
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Laying it all out: Collage as a co-creative method for designing collection interfaces
As a co-creative method, collage can stimulate the design of collection visualizations by integrating diverse materials and perspectives. This retrospective reflects on a decade of workshops with over 15 partners in the arts and humanities, …
VIS
We are at IEEE VIS 2025 in Vienna. Gianna-Carina Grün shares the poster »What Makes Data Visualizations Difficult to Understand? Not Their Dimensionality, Evidence Shows« about her doctoral research, Mark-Jan Bludau co-organizes the 9th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities VIS4DH, and Marian Dörk presents the paper titled »Textarium: Entangling Annotation, Abstraction and Argument« at that workshop.
Visualizing Cultural Collections
Project course on visualizing a Jewish diaspora photo archive with Frédéric Brenner & GraDiM. Teams design novel visual overviews and data stories, linking semantics, relations, and visuals. The course work spans data analysis to prototypes, yielding a research paper and web prototype.
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Stereoscopic Journals: An archive interface entangling diary segments with photo series
The digital publication of a vast and diverse cultural collection is the starting point for an investigation on the relationship between intermediality, narration, data and cultural heritage, that converge into the design of an interface model that …
Un/Foldables
Fluidly Revealing Information: A Survey of 101 Un/Foldable Data Visualizations
KUI
Markus Kreutzer presents the paper »Phygital Vocabulary: Speculative Terms to Discuss the Implications of Emerging Reality-Forming Interfaces« at the annual Culture and Computer Science conference in Berlin.
Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality. Visualizing a Photo Archive about the Jewish Diaspora
Finding evocative and sensitive digital representations for cultural heritage collections requires careful implementation and collaboration, encompassing data modeling, cataloging, ideation and prototyping. In this article, we present …
DH
We are in Lisbon for DH2025 with several contributions: Viktoria Brüggemann and Mark-Jan Bludau talk about collage as co-creative design method. Silvia Casavola presents her MA project Stereoscopic Journals, which she carried out in GraDiM. And Kirill Mitsurov, presents a poster on 3D Stories.
3D Stories
Telling Stories about Historical Dress
Information is Beautiful Award
»I Want a Better Catastrophe: A Flowchart for Navigating our Climate Predicament« wins Gold at the Information is Beautiful Awards, which are organized by the Data Visualization Society.