Mapping Cities – Making Cities

Visualizing Light Pollution

Albrecht Dobelstein, Elisa Matz-Reichel, Gustav Neustadt, Sina Wenzel — GFZ A visual exploration of light pollution data collected by citizen scientists for the Nachtlicht-Bühne project.

poor by rent?

Clara-Sophie Mau, Judith Neidhardt, Mennatullah Hendawy, Sofia Helfrich, Tim Hönig — HU Berlin This data story investigates how much income is used up by rent in German cities.

[T]räume deinen Kiez frei

Anna Eschenbacher, Kalen Harris, Leonie Schatter, Oskar Schmieg, Jonas Harant — Changing Cities Impressions and dreams of public space collected at a workshop in Berlin and mapped out in this web app.

Our Mobility in Knots

Helmut Büttner, Johanna Hartmann, Sascha Höver — FH Potsdam A network visualization of multimodal patterns in personal mobility.

How European States Decide on Asylum

Frieda Grimm, Katharina Schürmann, Kerstin Humm, Kübra Sari, Séraphime Reznikoff — UNHCR A visual comparison of the decisions on refugee applications.

Nahes Grün / Fernes Grün

Ella Eisemann, Ester Scheck, Henning Oskamp, Jona Pomerance — TUHH & UFZ An interactive map that visualizes the distribution and reachability of green spaces in Berlin along mode and time.

Berlin in 15 Minuten?

Anna Meide, Florian Zia, Lelya Kimel, Sebastian Strobel — TUHH & TU Berlin Following the idea of the compact city, this map shows the overall availability of basic services in walking distance.

Treecovery

Hannah Gerlach, Kenny Löffler, Sofia Riello, Maoqi Liu, Thilo Stopper — Medienwerkstatt Potsdam A mobile game for children to learn about trees in their neighborhood.

This is Municipalism

Mariana Reinhardt, Constanze Metzel, Moritz Graf, Emilia Knabe — Minim A visual interface that invites the visitor to discover a social movement that is contagious, radical and democratic.

Dicke Luft

Annika Terwey Gassebner, Aleksandra Wingert, Johannes Dillmann, Kira Vogtmann, Milan Bargiel, Yulia Aster — IASS Explore air quality and social media activity about car-free Friedrichstraße.

YouBike in Taipei

Yufei Huang, Kevin Cheng How do the weather conditions, commuting patterns and topographical features shape the use of bike sharing in the Taiwanese capital?

MercedeZ

Thomas Haas, Laura Koch, Gabriela Rocha, Dimitar Ruszev A semi-fictional story about personal data sovereignty in the smart city of the future.

Potsdam’s sunny side

Jana Schelte, Ilka von Eynern, Carolin Achtermann After a steady increase of renewable energy production, the potential for solar energy is hardly utilized. Let's change this!

LOO/P

Lena Blüggel, Chantal Schöpp, Clara Lozano Discover the lifecycle of toilet paper and the circular potentials of daily products.

Ethical Routing

Anna Meide, Nadezda Kuzmina, Anne-Liese Lammich Navigation apps guide us through the city on an individualistic route, when instead they could optimize for the public good.

Air Quality in Berlin

Maryna Honcharenko, Jens Ove Drößiger, Daniel AlmgrenRecén A visual analysis of Berlin's air pollution, its measurement and mitigation.

Mission Zero

Soomin Kim, Mina Mahmoodian Esfahani, Ken Dornberger, Max Tristram A scheme for accident prevention with specific solutions to reach zero road fatalities.

Berlinize

José Ernesto Rodríguez, Marie Beckmann, Max Linnenschmidt, Theodor Hillmann Is your city lacking growth, future perspectives, and a vivid cultural scene? Then it's time to berlinize it!

Streaming’s Little Secret

Thora Weidling, Mirielle Alina Rohr, Valeria Garci Crespo López A visual investigation into the CO2 impact of online video streaming.

Who owns the Boxi?

David Amacher, Dominik Berton, Felix Jaekel, Paul Roeder, Léonie Schwöbel — Tagesspiegel An investigation into the changing ownership structure of this iconic square in the middle of Berlin Friedrichshain.

Hamburg: Happy & Healthy?

Dustin Kummer, Edmundo Gallindo, Fabian Fleckenstein, Fabian Schrader, Krista Smathers, Susanne Helm, Xiaotong Xiong — HCU Hamburg Health infrastructure in the hanseatic city and how it relates to differences in wealth.

Berlin's Vision For a Bicycle-Friendly City

Simon Pedross, Julian Broocks, Julian Roling, Regina Schröter — Tagesspiegel The capital’s bicycling infrastructure in comparison to its Dutch and Scandinavian counterparts.

City in Flux

Caroline Doyé, Fabian Dinklage, Fabian Ehmel, Valentina Tröndle — GIZ/WhereIsMyTransport Visualizations of the informal and formal mobility networks reveal hidden patterns and dividing lines throughout the city of in Cape Town and tell meaningful stories about its recent developments.

Bicycling in Berlin

Alexander Käßner, Jolanta Paliszewska, Caroline Zygmunt — FixMyBerlin An exploratory companion for citizens to learn about the conditions for bicycling in Berlin. A positive outlook encourages readers to dream about the possibilities for bicycling in the future.

Hamburg — a Cycling City?

Sonja Saprykina, Anastasia Voloshina, David Siedke, Fabian Schultz — Claus Hesseling This project analyses the bicycling safety of a city that has ambitious goals for its bicycle-friendliness. A close look at the distribution of bike accidents tells the story of an uphill battle.

Mapping Shared Mobility

Henrik Waffner, Marie Vogelmann, Māra Abaja, Cornelius Dauer — innoZ A visual analysis tool devised to support the identification of spatial patterns and interrelationships from the perspective of a fleet manager of a car-sharing service.

Selbstbestimmt mieten – Miete selbst bestimmen

Nele Trautwein, Jakob von Kietzell, Caspar Kirsch — Mietshäuser Syndikat A visual explainer about the Mietshäuser Syndikat, a network of houses that are committed to self-organized living and solidarity-based economy.