ᴜᴄʟᴀʙ is a visualization research group situated 
between design, computing, and the humanities.

Fachhochschule Potsdam
 

New Complexity Recent projects, publications and activities

Garments from Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg Project

3D Stories

Telling stories about historical dress
ippso Project

IPPSO

Transdisciplinary Legal, Public Policy, and Design Research on Immersive Phygital Public Spaces in Smart Cities
arete-preview Project

ARETE

A Visual History of the Latin Alphabet

Talk

Boris Müller is giving a talk at the Institute of Design Research in Bern. The title of the talk is »Daten → Design → Visualisierung«. He will present and discuss design research activities and strategies from the UCLAB.

26 March 2025
Publication

Complexity as Design Material

  • Florian Windhager
  • Alfie Abdul-Rahman
  • Mark-Jan Bludau
  • Nicole Hengesbach
  • Houda Lamqaddam
  • Isabel Meirelles
  • Bettina Speckmann
  • Michael Correll
— IEEE Workshop on Evaluation and Beyond-Methodological Approaches for Visualization (BELIV), 2024

Talk

Marian Dörk speaks about exploration and narration in visualizations of cultural collections in the Digital Classicist Seminar at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW).

4 February 2025
interactive-flowchart-preview Project

Interactive Flowchart

Navigating and Narrating Complexity through Exploration and Storytelling
Publication

From shock to shift: Data visualization for constructive climate journalism

  • Francesca Morini
  • Anna Eschenbacher
  • Johanna Hartmann
  • Marian Dörk
— IEEE VIS / TVCG: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023
default_mode Project

Klimakarten

From shock to shift
gradim-teaser Project

GraDiM

Granularities of dispersion and materiality: Visualizing a photo archive about diaspora
Publication

Tracing and Telling: Exploring collection holdings through graph-based narratives

  • Sabine de Günther
  • Giacomo Nanni
  • Ilias Kyriazis
  • Linda Freyberg
  • Marian Dörk
— in: Konferenzband zur 27. Berliner Veranstaltung der internationalen EVA-Serie: Electronic Media and Visual Arts, 2023

Exhibition

The 26-year-old project »Ambulator« by Boris Müller is currently on display at the ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien in Karlsruhe). It is an early visualisation of movements through the web and it is part of the exhibition »Choose Your Filter! Browser Art since the Beginnings of the World Wide Web«.

February – August 2025

Talk

Mark-Jan Bludau gives a presentation about unfolding cultural collections at the VAC Colloquium of the Institute for Visual and Analytic Computing of the University of Rostock.

10 December 2024
Publication

Discursive Patinas: Anchoring Discussions in Data Visualizations

  • Tobias Kauer
  • Derya Akbaba
  • Marian Dörk
  • Benjamin Bach
— IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024