GraDiM
Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality: Visualizing a Photo Archive About Diaspora
EuroVis
We are at EuroVis 2026 in Nottingham. Francesca Morini presents the research paper »Critical interactivity: Exploration and narration in data visualization«.
Meandering Photo Lines: Fluid Multiscale Exploration of Photographic Archives
We introduce a visualization that interweaves spatial and temporal structures of photo collections into explorable pathways. Existing photo browsing interfaces typically use space and time separately for sorting, filtering, or mapping photos. What …
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.
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. …
IPPSO
Exploring the Future of Phygital Public Spaces
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.
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 …
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.
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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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 …
Un/Foldables
Fluidly Revealing Information: A Survey of 101 Un/Foldable Data Visualizations
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.
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 …
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
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.