New Complexity Recent projects, publications and activities

Garments from Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg

Project

3D Stories

Telling stories about historical dress

Project

IPPSO

Transdisciplinary Legal, Public Policy, and Design Research on Immersive Phygital Public Spaces in Smart Cities

Project

ARETE

A Visual History of the Latin Alphabet

Talk

Markus Kreutzer is giving a talk about the linguistic preconfiguration of computational narration at Loops, a public event series of New Practice in cooperation with the Berlin University Alliance.

24 April 2025

Publication

Critical Interactivity: Exploration and Narration in Data Visualization

Francesca Morini
Manuela Garretón
Jona Pomerance
Nadia Zeissig
Sabine de Günther
Fidel Thomet
Linda Freyberg
Ilias Kyriazis
Andrea Scholz
Marian Dörk

— IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2025

Publication

Towards Collective Storytelling: Investigating Audience Annotations in Data Visualizations

Tobias Kauer
Marian Dörk
Benjamin Bach

— IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2025

Talk

Boris Müller is giving a talk at the Institute of Design Research in Bern. The title of the talk is »Daten → Design → Visualisierung«. He will present and discuss design research activities and strategies from the UCLAB.

26 March 2025

Project

GraDiM

Granularities of dispersion and materiality: Visualizing a photo archive about diaspora

Publication

Discursive Patinas: Anchoring Discussions in Data Visualizations

Tobias Kauer
Derya Akbaba
Marian Dörk
Benjamin Bach

— IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024

Project

Klimakarten

From shock to shift

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

Talk

Marian Dörk speaks about exploration and narration in visualizations of cultural collections in the Digital Classicist Seminar at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW).

4 February 2025

Project

Interactive Flowchart

Navigating and Narrating Complexity through Exploration and Storytelling

Exhibition

The 26-year-old project »Ambulator« by Boris Müller is currently on display at the ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien in Karlsruhe). It is an early visualisation of movements through the web and it is part of the exhibition »Choose Your Filter! Browser Art since the Beginnings of the World Wide Web«.

February – August 2025