Jona Pomerance

Interface Design & Visualization

Jona Pomerance is a student in the Interface Design program at FH Potsdam and a student researcher at the UCLAB. His work at the lab revolves around creating visualizations that enable both narrative and exploratory experiences, combining visual and auditory modalities.

Website jona.im E-mail jona.pomerance@fh-potsdam.de

Projects

GraDiM

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

Interactive Flowchart

Navigating and Narrating Complexity Through Exploration and Storytelling

Publications

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 …

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 …

Activities

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.

Exhibition ● 6–7 Apr 2024

Better Catastrophe

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

Symposium ● 21–23 Feb 2024

KI und das digitale Bild

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

Conference Talk & Exhibit ● 22–24 Nov 2023

Information+

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.

Project Launch ● 1 Sep 2023

Interactive Flowchart

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.

Talk ● 30 May 2023

Infografik AG

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

Courses

Course ● Winter 2023/24

What next? Mapping and narrating personal dilemmas through interactive flowcharts

Participants were tasked with creating and illustrating a flowchart about a dilemma of their choice, narrating a path through the chart using an audio recording, and making their creations interactive using a provided template.

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