GraDiM
Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality: Visualizing a Photo Archive About Diaspora
NordiCHI
Boris Müller presents the paper »ApeiroUI – a Visual Interface for Cloud Infrastructure« at the NordiCHI 2026 conference at the University of Vaasa in Finland.
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 …
SciCAR
We are at SciCAR in Dortmund. Rahul Bhargava gives the keynote »Training Data Journalists in the Age of AI« and Francesca Morini takes part in the panel »(UX-)Insights für einen Datenjournalismus, der auch ankommt«.
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
Retell a Data Story Off the Screen
How can we turn online data stories into tangible participatory activities? This course explores this question, designing short hands-on data activities that physicalize existing data stories and bring them to the public.
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 …
EuroVis
We are at EuroVis 2026 in Nottingham. Francesca Morini presents the research paper »Critical interactivity: Exploration and narration in data visualization«.
Mapping Cities – Making Cities
Project course devoted to the visual analysis and communication of urban data with the goal to engage in critical reflections about the future of cities. Students of interface design and urban futures form interdisciplinary teams to pursue research and design at the intersection of their fields.
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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
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.
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 …
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.
3D Stories
Telling Stories about Historical Dress
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.