Activities

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.

»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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 visualization 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«.

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).

Mark-Jan Bludau gives a presentation about unfolding cultural collections at the VAC Colloquium of the Institute for Visual and Analytic Computing of the University of Rostock.

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

At the conference Approaches to Textiles – Scientific, Curatorial and Digital Perspectives (University of Münster), Sabine de Günther presents Restaging Fashion in the larger context of the presentation of garments in the digital realm.

The GraDiM project team presents their research at the #DHJewish Conference organized by the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies with the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History.

Sabine de Günther presents Restaging Fashion at the Jahrestagung 2024: Digitale Hochschule Brandenburg (Center of the Brandenburg Universities for Digital Transformation).

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.

Mark-Jan Bludau and Viktoria Brüggemann present the GraDiM project in the Last Friday’s Lab Talk series of the DHELab at the BBF (Research Library for the History of Education).

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

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.

Viktoria Brüggemann takes part and contributes to the »Activating a Collection« workshop at the Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin.

Jona Pomerance presents the Better Catastrophe flowchart at the student exhibition of the see Conference in Wiesbaden.

Xingú Entangled, an interactive video installation by the Amazonia Future Lab, will be on show at the Existência Numérica exhibition in Rio de Janeiro.

The GraDiM project team participates in the symposium »KI und das digitale Bild« in Munich.

Sabine de Günther gives a workshop on »Explorative Visualisations of Cultural Assets. Introduction and Hands-on« at the SUB Hamburg in the series Digital Humanities – How does it work? – Time: 10am – 3.30pm, location: Book tower of Stabi, 17th floor.

Sabine de Günther and Ilias Kyriazis present at the Electronic Media & Visual Arts (EVA) Conference in Berlin the results of the three year digitization and research project Restaging Fashion .

At the international conference of European Fashion Heritage Association (EFHA) in Utrecht, Sabine de Günther of the Restaging Fashion team shared the prototype ReFa Reader, which combines narration with exploration.

We are in Edinburgh for the Information+ 2023 conference. Nadia Zeissig and Fidel Thomet exhibit Xingú Entangled from the Amazonia Future Lab, Jona Pomerance gives a presentation on the interactive version of the Better Catastrophe flowchart, and Marian Dörk will chair the Challenging Power session.

Francesca Morini attends IEEE VIS 2023 in Melbourne to share a provocation »Entangling exploration and narration: Interdisciplinary and cross-domain research on visualizing humanities data« at the VIS4DH workshop and present the full paper »From shock to shift: Data visualization for constructive climate journalism«.

Ilias Kyriazis presents Restaging Fashion at EuropeanaTech and will take part in the Linked.Art meeting at the Rijksmuseum.

Mark-Jan Bludau and Linda Freyberg participate in the Dagstuhl Seminar »Visualization and the Humanities: Towards a Shared Research Agenda« (23381).

How can we narrate and navigate the climate crisis? This interface is an interactive version of the flowchart that climate activist Andrew Boyd included in his new book »I Want a Better Catastrophe«. Follow his path and explore our collective predicament.

We are in Graz for the Digital Humanities conference DH2023 with two contributions: Giacomo Nanni and Linda Freyberg present a paper about structured data modeling and unstructured text entry during art historical research and Mark-Jan Bludau co-organizes a workshop on teaching visualization literacy.

Inventing the Alphabet: Technologies of Knowledge Production in the Humanities – A guest lecture by Johanna Drucker. Doors 2:30pm, start 3pm in Hörsaal D011 in Haus D.

Navigating our Climate Predicament – An interactive book presentation and flowchart demo with Andrew Boyd. Doors 5:30pm, start 6pm in Hörsaal D011 in Haus D.

Francesca Morini is a speaker at this year’s Visualizing Knowledge conference at Aalto University, Finland. She will talk about data visualization and constructive data journalism, presenting insights from her doctoral research and beyond. journalism.

We participate in EuroVis 2023 in Leipzig with two contributions: Mark-Jan Bludau presents a paper about » Unfolding Edges« joint work with Marian Dörk & Christian Tominski and Manuela Garretón presents » Data stories of water« joint work with Francesca Morini, Daniela Paz Moyano, Gianna-Carina Grün, Denis Parra & Marian Dörk.

Mark-Jan Bludau gives a talk and a workshop on »Visualizing Cultural Collections« at the Graphic Hunters S-H-O-W conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Boris Müller and Jona Pomerance present at the Infografik AG – an online lecture series on information graphics and data visualization.

Sabine de Günther gives a talk about »Curation and contextualisation through data visualization« as well as a talk on  achievements and goals of the Project Restaging Fashion at the Annual Members’ Meeting of the fashion network »netzwerk-mode-textil«.

Sabine de Günther, Katrin Lindemann, Andrea Döring and Oliver Bruderer give two workshops for fashion researchers at the Annual Members’ Meeting of the fashion network »netzwerk-mode-textil«.

Sabine de Günther and Adelheid Rasche give a talk at the Symposium »Under the magnifying glass: Object-related research in museum costume-/ fashion collections« at the Rijksmuseum.

Mark-Jan Bludau, Viktoria Brüggemann and Marian Dörk present the project »Granularities of dispersion and materiality: Visualizing a photo archive about diaspora« (GraDiM) at the kick-off event of the DFG priority program »The Digital Image« .

Boris Müller and Ilias Kyriazis give a talk at the CUDANLab / University Tallinn. The lecture is remote and public. Boris and Ilias present current projects from the UCLAB and talk about the »culturality« of data visualizations.

Anna Eschenbacher, Johanna Hartmann, and Francesca Morini participate in the NIAM 2023 conference in Berlin to present their work in progress paper »FROM SHOCK TO SHIFT – Beteiligung von Zeitungsleser*innen in partizipativen, mehrkanaligen Datenvisualisierungen von Klimazukünften«.

Anna Eschenbacher, Johanna Hartmann, and Francesca Morini present the poster on their on-going research »From shock to shift: Engaging newspaper readers in participatory, multi-channel data visualizations of climate futures« at the ZeM graduate conference un:real spaces of interaction, in Potsdam.

Lamin Manneh (guest scholar during summer 2022) and Marian Dörk give a workshop on »Visualizing Scholarly Presence at Einstein’s Summer House« at the Einstein Forum. As part of the event, students from the class »Decolonizing Data Visualization – Visualizing Postcolonies« present their projects, findings, and visualizations.

Francesca Morini participates in the ECREA 2022 conference in Aarhus to present her paper » Data journalism as “terra incognita”: newcomers’ tensions in shifting towards data journalism epistemology«.

Francesca Morini and Marian Dörk participate in the DH2022 conference and co-present a panel on »Temporal Topologies: Inflecting the telling and the told of historical narratives« together with Johanna Drucker (UCLA), Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson (MPIWG), Jonas Rinderlin (HKW), Elton Barker (OU), Christoph Rosol (MPIWG & HKW) and Dirk Wintergrün (MPIWG/Klassik Stiftung Weimar).

Linda Freyberg gives a talk on »Visualisierung als Erkenntnismittel« at the department of Computational Social Sciences at LMU (6-8 pm virtual). The talk is in German and is open to guests. More info here .

Francesca Morini attends the Dialogues in Data Power conference in Bremen and presents »Deliberate Data: A Critical Approach to Urban Data Collection for Visualization Practitioners« joint work with Tobias Kauer, Benjamin Bach and Marian Dörk.

Linda Freyberg gives a talk on »Information Visualizations as epistemic Tools – Peirce’s concept of diagrammatic reasoning in digital environments« at the 4th conference of the International Association of Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) – Semiotic complexities Theory & Analysis .

Amazonia Future Lab hosts a workshop on interweaving artifacts, plants, and documents into new knowledge networks at re:publica .

Francesca Morini hosts a virtual workshop on journalistic authorship and temporal-relational deep tagging of newsworthy events at Computation + Journalism 2022.

Sara Akhlaq and Arran Ridley give a joint paper presentation on »Data Montage: Towards Coherence in Multimodal Data Representation« at DH Benelux 2022 .

Sabine de Günther gives a talk about the »Rediscovery of a Fashion Cosmos« and the Restaging Fashion project at the Kunstbibliothek Berlin in the context of the Close up event series.

Sabine de Günther conducts a co-creation workshop at Kunstbibliothek Berlin in the context of the Restaging Fashion project with an input from Linda Freyberg, followed by hands-on sessions, where participants engaged with the collection.

Francesca Morini gives a virtual talk on autoethnography and action research as methods to research data journalism within newsrooms at the University of Aarhus’ Infrastructures of Publics Workshop.

Linda Freyberg and Giacomo Nanni participate at the CIDOC conference in Tallinn and gave a talk on »Visualizing cultural heritage – Visual approaches to modeling and presenting multimodal data«.

Sara Akhlaq presents a lightning talk on »Epistemic Disobedience through Counterdata Visualisations of Digital Cultural Heritage« at DH Unbound 2022.

Sabine de Günther and Lindy Freyberg presented at the Digital Art History section of this years Kunsthistorikertag in Stuttgart Digitale Kontextualisierung und visuelle Reinszenierung vestimentärer Quellen (Digital contextualisation and visual restaging of vestimentary sources).

We participate in DHd 2022 to present our latest digital humanities research from the projects Restaging Fashion, A visual exploration of two museum collections, and SoNAR (IDH).

Narges Mahyar (University of Massachusetts Amherst): »Building Equitable Social Computing and Visualization Tools for Democratizing Public Participation« live on YouTube. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series.

Miriah Meyer (Linköping University): »What we learn through designing visualizations« live on YouTube. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series.

We just launched a visualization as a retrospective on the pandemic (despite it not being over yet). Please, help our research by exploring the interface and participating in the research: corona moments.

Together with Yanni Loukissas (Georgia Tech, Atlanta) and Isabel Meirelles (OCAD University, Toronto), Marian Dörk is organizing this year’s Information+ 2021 conference. Registration is now open.

We are preparing the »Visualizing Open Access Summer School« in cooperation with the Open-Access-Büro Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin.

Linda Freyberg successfully defended her PhD thesis »Iconicity in Information – The epistemic function of implicit and explicit imagery in digital knowledge organization« at Leuphana University Lüneburg.

Benjamin Bach (University of Edinburgh): »Visualization Empowerment« live on YouTube at 4pm CEST. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series.

Sara Akhlaq joined the SIGGRAPH 2021 panel Sisters of Code to give a presentation on »Women in Data Visualisation«.

Christian Tominski (University of Rostock): »Modern Interaction for Visual Analytics« live on YouTube. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series.

We participate in EuroVis 2021 with two contributions: Fabian Ehmel presents a paper about »Topograpy of Violence« and Mark-Jan Bludau shows a poster on »Unfolding Edges« from the SoNAR (IDH) project.

Inter…what? Intersectionality! is a scrollytelling article on discrimination and privilege by Hannah Schwan, Jonas Arndt, Sandra Cartes & Marian Dörk. Please, help our research by reading it and sharing your feedback with us.

»Let’s visit museum collections! What can we gather about the data?« — Virtual museum visits and reflections about cultural data and collection interfaces during vDHd2021.

If you are curious about communicating climate change scenarios with data visualization, please join us for the SENSES Outreach Event being held online on 15 January at 2pm (CET).

Boris Müller talks about »Making and Breaking Rules – Visualisation between Creativity and Usability« at the S-H-O-W conference in Utrecht → video recording

Marian Dörk holds the keynote at VIS4DH, the 5th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities at IEEE VIS → video recording

Viktoria Brüggemann presents and discusses her research on visualizing digital history at the Digital Academy 2020, hosted by the University of Bielefeld under the topic »Visualisieren und Vergleichen«.

Barbara Avila Vissirini presents her research on A Visual System for Grammar Instruction in Foreign Language Learning at the The European Conference on Language Learning (ECLL2020).

Olivia Vane (The British Library ): »Visualising cultural heritage collections: Is the data enough?« live at YouTube at 11am (UTC+2). Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series.

Mark-Jan Bludau presents our research on elastic visualizations for cultural heritage data at the joint conferences of Eurographics and Eurovis 2020.

We are in Paderborn for DHd 2020 to share our latest research on data visualization in the context of digital humanities.

We take part in the The Art Museum in the Digital Age conference at the Belvedere in Vienna to present one recent research project (Close-Up Cloud) and ongoing research on visualizing multiple collections.

The Close-Up Cloud visualization is part of The Second Original exhibition at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG).

Katherine Hepworth (The Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada): »Ethical Visualization: A Strategy for Dark Times« @ Campus FH Potsdam, Lecture Hall in Haus D, start at 4pm. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series.

Hendrik Lehmann (Tagesspiegel Innovation Lab): » Empowering Journalism: Using sensors, data and visualization to provide citizens with actionable insights on urban spaces « @ Campus FH Potsdam, Lecture Hall in Haus D, start at 5:30pm. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series.

Jeffrey Heer (University of Washington): »Raising the Bar (Chart): Enriching Visualization Tools with Design Knowledge« @ Campus FH Potsdam, Lecture Hall in Haus D, start at 4pm. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series.

Vis for Future is an international competition calling for state-of-the-art visualizations that make sense of the climate crisis and inform the fight for climate justice.

Mark-Jan Bludau receives Brandenburg Designpreis for Reading Traces, an interdisciplinary research project with the Theodor Fontane Archive.

The visualization prototype created during the Reading Traces project is part of the exhibition fontane.200 / Brandenburg – Bilder und Geschichten at the Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte in Potsdam.

As part of the Potsdam Science Day (Potsdamer Tag der Wissenschaften) we open the doors to the lab. Come by and try our latest visualizations of climate change scenarios and Fontane’s reading traces.

We participate in DHd 2019 in Frankfurt and DH2019 in Utrecht to share our latest research on data visualization in the context of cultural collections.

The video recordings of all keynotes and conference presentations at Information+ 2018 are now published online.

COINS – A Journey Through A Rich Cultural Collection wins SILVER Information Is Beautiful Award in Arts, Entertainment & Culture.

CityVis 2018 is a showcase of the latest and greatest projects shared on the Visualizing Cities platform.

We take part in IEEE VIS 2018 in Berlin and present visualization research on personal movement data and digital cultural heritage.

Image Factories. Infographics 1920–1945 presents historical visualization design from early 20th century Austria and Germany.

We host Information+ 2018 in Potsdam – just before IEEE VIS in Berlin.

With Visualizing Cities we solicit submissions of innovative visualizations of urban data to be shown in the context of IEEE VIS in Berlin.

We participate in the DHd 2018 conference in Cologne to present research on visualizing cultural collections.

cf. city flows is on display in The Art of Networks III exhibition in Boston.

Our lab is featured in the current issue of ACM interactions in the DAY IN THE LAB section.

Urban Future Talks #2: Mapping as a Critical and Transformative Practice @ Campus Fachhochschule Potsdam, Theaterwerkstatt in the main building.

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

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

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

We participate in IEEE VIS 2016 in Baltimore to present Novel City Maps and cf. city flows in the Arts Program and join a panel on critical visualization.

Together with ICSU and Future Earth we take part in the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development Habitat III with an exhibition and event space dedicated to science and visualization for sustainable urban futures.

We solicit submissions of innovative visualizations of urban data to be part of a platform and exhibition at Habitat III.

Marian Dörk gives webinar on »Visualizing Cultural Data: Experimental Interfaces for Digitized Collections«.

We are happy to join Information+ in Vancouver and present our latest work on visualizing large cultural collections.

Johanna Drucker (UCLA): » Dimensions of Visualization for the Humanities « @ Campus Fachhochschule Potsdam, Hörsaal in Haus D. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series

We are at re:publica this year! Katja Böhme & Stephanie Neumann present »Things to remember«.

Bob Corish & David Sweeney (Microsoft Research): » The Final Cut« @ Campus Fachhochschule Potsdam, Raum D 226 in Haus D. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series.

Christina Elmer (SPIEGEL ONLINE): »Storys aus Daten« @ Campus Fachhochschule Potsdam, Hörsaal in Haus D. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series.

Final presentations of project course on Visualizing cultural collections @ Campus Fachhochschule Potsdam, Hauptgebäude, Großer Hörsaal

Exhibition »Streams and Traces: Mapping the ephemeral city« at Galerie erstererster · Pappelallee 69 · 10437 Berlin.

We participate in IEEE VIS 2015 in Chicago to present a full InfoVis paper about Probing Projections and posters about Micro Visualisations and Shifted Maps.

Elton Barker: »Mapping the Ancient World Space« @ Campus Fachhochschule Potsdam, Hörsaal in Haus D. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series.

Research project on potential and risks of drones starts today. Please take part: unterdrohnen.de

Visit our lab at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (main building HG 111) and see work in progress.

Nina Valkanova: »Social Public Visualization: Confronting the Public with Citizen Data« @ Campus Fachhochschule Potsdam, Raum D/106 in Haus D. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series.

Paolo Ciuccarelli: »Designing Scholarly (Data) Visualization Tools« @ Campus Fachhochschule Potsdam, Hörsaal in Haus D. Part of information​+​visualization public lecture series.

The projects DDB Vis, They know and Klang are shown as part of the student exhibition of this year’s see conference in Wiesbaden.

Today at 2pm UCLAB officially launches. There will be talks, demos, and catering: Read the press release here!