UCLAB

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

GraDiM

Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality: Visualizing a Photo Archive About Diaspora

Conference ● 2–7 Nov 2025

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.

Publication ● 2025
VIS4DH: 9th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities at IEEE VIS

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 …

Conference ● 25–26 Sep 2025

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.

Publication ● 2025
Book of Abstracts of the ADHO Digital Humanities conference (DH2025)

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, …

IPPSO

Exploring the Future of Phygital Public Spaces

Course ● Summer 2025

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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Publication ● 2025
Book of Abstracts of the ADHO Digital Humanities conference (DH2025)

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 …

Conference ● 14–18 Jul 2025

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.

Course ● Winter 2024/25

Interactive Information

This course embraces the web as a versatile and expressive medium for creating information-rich and dynamic interfaces. From buttons and boxes to events and animation, students will learn the basic building blocks for prototyping interactive web pages for diverse audiences and platforms.

Publication ● 2025
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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 …

Un/Foldables

Fluidly Revealing Information: A Survey of 101 Un/Foldable Data Visualizations

Award ● 13 Jun 2025

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.

Publication ● 2025
EuroVis 2025 - Short Papers

Inflecting Data Visualizations for Web-based Scrollytelling

We propose the idea of inflections as a method for capturing and conveying interpretative interactions with data visualizations. Aiming to narrow the gap between data analysis and story authoring, inflections are subtle modulations of a …

Conference ● 2–6 Jun 2025

EuroVis

We are at EuroVis 2025 in Luxembourg. Mark-Jan Bludau presents a state of the art report on un/foldable data visualizations and Theresa Eingartner gives a talk on inflections of data visualizations.

3D Stories

Telling Stories about Historical Dress

Workshop ● 7–9 May 2025

Mark-Jan Bludau participates in the 2025 Workshop on Visualization, Visual Analytics, and Visual Computing (V3) in Neustrelitz, Germany.