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 ● 8–12 Jun 2026

EuroVis

We are at EuroVis 2026 in Nottingham. Francesca Morini presents the research paper »Critical interactivity: Exploration and narration in data visualization«.

Publication ● 2026
Journal of Visualization and Interaction

Navigating and Narrating Interactive Flowcharts

While the nonlinear and interconnected nature of flowcharts makes them well-suited for representing and communicating complex narratives, flowcharts can appear impersonal, unapproachable, and disorienting, especially with a large number of elements. …

Award ● 15 Dec 2025

Designpreis Brandenburg

Jona Pomerance receives Designpreis Brandenburg for the project »I Want a Better Catastrophe« in the category: Digital Design, UX/UI, Game Design Young Professionals.

Publication ● 2025
KUI '25: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Culture and Computer Science: Remixing Analog and Digital

Phygital Vocabulary: Speculative Terms to Discuss the Implications of Emerging Reality-Forming Interfaces

To consciously perceive and discuss new developments we need new terms. This paper proposes a speculative vocabulary that describes possible characteristics of phygital spaces, an emerging development where the physical and the digital increasingly …

IPPSO

Exploring the Future of Phygital Public Spaces

Course ● Summer 2026

Visualizing Sustainability Models

Project course devoted to the visual analysis and communication of sustainability models connected to urban development. Students of interface design and urban futures form interdisciplinary teams to pursue research and design at the intersection of their fields.

Publication ● 2025
Interface Critique, 5(Conversing the Book)

Conceptual Analogues: Coming to Terms with Data Visualisation

This paper aims to critically examine central concepts associated with data visualisation and proposes a type of metaphor that fuses theoretical principles with practical experiences. Data visualisation can be characterised as the graphical …

Conference ● 12–14 Nov 2025

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.

Course ● Summer 2026

Data Visualization

In this introductory course students learn to design, build, and critique data visualizations. Lectures cover the basic principles including visual variables, interactivity, temporal, geospatial, multidimensional, relational, and text visualization. Tutorials help create a personal data dossier.


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Publication ● 2025
Special issue of Internet Policy Review on The Craft of Interdisciplinary Research and Methods in Public Interest Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Digital Rights Governance

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 …

Un/Foldables

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

Exhibition ● 8 Nov – 16 Mar 2026

Berlinische Galerie

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 ● 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.

3D Stories

Telling Stories about Historical Dress

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.