UCLAB

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

GraDiM

Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality: Visualizing a Photo Archive About Diaspora

Conference ● 14–18 Jul 2025

DH

We are in Lisbon for DH2025 with several contributions: Viktoria Brüggemann and Mark-Jan Bludau talk about collage as co-creative design method. Silvia Casavola presents her MA project Stereoscopic Journals, which she carried out in GraDiM. And Kirill Mitsurov, presents a poster on 3D Stories.

Publication ● 2025
Medaon, 19 (36)

Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality. Visualizing a Photo Archive about the Jewish Diaspora

Finding evocative and sensitive digital representations for cultural heritage collections requires careful implementation and collaboration, encompassing data modeling, cataloging, ideation and prototyping. In this article, we present …

Award ● 13 Jun 2025

Information is Beautiful Award

»I Want a Better Catastrophe: A Flowchart for Navigating our Climate Predicament« wins Gold at the Information is Beautiful Awards, which are organized by the Data Visualization Society.

Publication ● 2025
EuroVis 2025 - Short Papers

Inflecting Data Visualizations for Web-based Scrollytelling

We propose the idea of inflections as a method for capturing and conveying interpretative interactions with data visualizations. Aiming to narrow the gap between data analysis and story authoring, inflections are subtle modulations of a …

IPPSO

Exploring the Future of Phygital Public Spaces

Course ● Summer 2025

Visualizing Cultural Collections

Project course on visualizing a Jewish diaspora photo archive with Frédéric Brenner & GraDiM. Teams design novel visual overviews and data stories, linking semantics, relations, and visuals. The course work spans data analysis to prototypes, yielding a research paper and web prototype.


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Publication ● 2025
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis)

Fluidly Revealing Information: A Survey of Un/foldable Data Visualizations

Revealing relevant information on demand is an essential requirement for visual data exploration. In this state-of-the-art report, we review and classify techniques that are inspired by the physical metaphor of un/folding to reveal relevant …

Conference ● 2–6 Jun 2025

EuroVis

We are at EuroVis 2025 in Luxembourg. Mark-Jan Bludau presents a state of the art report on un/foldable data visualizations and Theresa Eingartner gives a talk on inflections of data visualizations.

Course ● Winter 2024/25

Interactive Information

This course embraces the web as a versatile and expressive medium for creating information-rich and dynamic interfaces. From buttons and boxes to events and animation, students will learn the basic building blocks for prototyping interactive web pages for diverse audiences and platforms.

Publication ● 2025
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Critical Interactivity: Exploration and Narration in Data Visualization

We propose critical interactivity as a concept to study and design the dynamic and transitory aspects of data visualizations. Theoretically, interactivity is often described as the means to support analytical tasks, while in practice, it encompasses …

Un/Foldables

Fluidly Revealing Information: A Survey of 101 Un/Foldable Data Visualizations

Workshop ● 7–9 May 2025

Mark-Jan Bludau participates in the 2025 Workshop on Visualization, Visual Analytics, and Visual Computing (V3) in Neustrelitz, Germany.

Publication ● 2025
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Towards Collective Storytelling: Investigating Audience Annotations in Data Visualizations

This work investigates personal perspectives in visualization annotations as devices for collective data-driven storytelling. Inspired by existing efforts in critical cartography, we show how people share personal memories in a visualization of …

Talk ● 24 Apr 2025

Loops

Markus Kreutzer gives 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.

3D Stories

Telling Stories about Historical Dress

Invited Talk ● 26 Mar 2025

Institute of Design Research

Boris Müller gives 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.