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
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 …

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
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 …

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
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 …

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

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 …

3D Stories

Telling Stories about Historical Dress

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 ● 2024
IEEE Workshop on Evaluation and Beyond-Methodological Approaches for Visualization (BELIV)

Complexity as Design Material

Complexity is often seen as a inherent negative in information design, with the job of the designer being to reduce or eliminate complexity, and with principles like Tufte’s “data-ink ratio” or “chartjunk” to operationalize minimalism and simplicity …

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.

Interactive Flowchart

Navigating and Narrating Complexity Through Exploration and Storytelling

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.