The Urban Complexity Lab is a research space at the 
intersection of information visualization 
and urban transformation.

Fachhochschule Potsdam
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New Complexity Recent projects, publications and activities

1400px_Thoughts Project

Thoughts on Interaction Design

An essay series by Boris Müller
memory_dialogue_stephanie_neumann Project

Memory Dialogue

Exploring artefact-based memory sharing
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Reverse information architecture

How is exploration manifested in online collections of museums?

Jobs

We have two job openings for a three-year research project on climate change visualization and communication. See details in the job descriptions.

Apply by 15 July, 2017
Publication

One view is not enough: High-level visualizations of a large cultural collection

  • Marian Dörk
  • Christopher Pietsch
  • Gabriel Credico
— Information Design Journal. 23:1, 2017

Invited talk

Matthew Battles, Jessica Yurkofsky & Sarah Newman (metaLAB at Harvard): »Dialogues with Data: Multisensory Encounters with Objects, Texts, and Images« @ Campus Fachhochschule Potsdam, Lecture Hall in Haus D. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series

11 Mai 2017, 4 pm
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VisTent

Visualizing urban data using top-projected city models
Publication

Psychogeography in the Age of the Quantified Self—Mental Map Modelling with Georeferenced Personal Activity Data

  • Sebastian Meier
  • Katrin Glinka
— in: Michael P. Peterson (eds.). "Advances in Cartography and GIScience. Selections from the International Cartographic Conference" - Springer International Publishing, 2017
01 habitat x change Project

Habitat X Change

Science meets visualization for sustainable urban futures
Publication

Memory Dialogue – Exploring Artefact-Based Memory Sharing

  • Stephanie Neumann
  • Marian Dörk
  • Richard Banks
— alt.CHI, 2017
03_StephanieNeumann_Trafo Project

Weißwasser

Transformation of a shrinking city

Invited talk

Evelyn Gius (Universität Hamburg): »Textanalyse und Visualisierung: Über eine natürliche Verbindung und ihre Herausforderungen« @ Campus Fachhochschule Potsdam, Lecture Hall in Haus D. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series

June 16, 2017

Invited talk

Florian Windhager (Danube University Krems): »White Cube, Black Box, PolyCube: Reframing Cultural Objects and Actors« @ Campus Fachhochschule Potsdam, Lecture Hall in Haus D. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series

26 April 2017, 5pm
Publication

Tracing exploratory modes in digital collections of museum websites using reverse information architecture

  • Sarah Kreiseler
  • Viktoria Brüggemann
  • Marian Dörk
— First Monday. 22:4, 2017