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

New Complexity Recent projects, publications and activities

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

interactive-flowchart-preview Project

Interactive Flowchart

Navigating and Narrating Complexity through Exploration and Storytelling

Keynote

Marian Dörk will participate in the Cultural Heritage Data & Power conference in Marburg and give a presentation about the power of interactivity in data visualization.

14–16 November 2024
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

Exhibition

Fidel Thomet and Nadia Zeissig show Xingú Entangled, an interactive video installation by the Amazonia Future Lab, at re:publica 24 in Berlin.

27–29 May 2024

Keynote

Marian Dörk speaks at the Crossing Fonds Digital Archives Symposium about the role of a shared vocabulary for co-designing data visualizations of cultural collections.

25–28 April 2024
V3_website_v1 Project

Amazonia Future Lab

Connect – Comprehend – Communicate

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
Publication

Discursive Patinas: Anchoring Discussions in Data Visualizations

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

Klimakarten

From shock to shift

Conference

Mark-Jan Bludau and Viktoria Brüggemann present their work in the GraDiM project during the MAI Tagung (museums and the internet) at the Jewish Museum, Berlin.

16–17 May 2024