Portrait of Viktoria Brüggemann

Viktoria Brüggemann

Cultural Sciences

Viktoria Brüggemann is a research associate at the Urban Complexity Lab at FH Potsdam. Her research interest lies in visualizing cultural collections, seeking to create platforms that combine novel representations with a deep cultural sensitivity.

Viktoria holds a MA in European Cultural History from the European University Viadrina and a BA in Cultural Work and Arts Management from FH Potsdam. During her studies, she focused on (digital) cultural history and museum studies, concluding with a Master thesis entitled “Historical collections online: Museum objects in the age of their digital availability”. Before joining the UCLAB, she worked for the Humboldt Lab Dahlem, an interdisciplinary project at the Staatliche Museen Berlin which provided impulses for the exhibition planning of the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst for the future Humboldt Forum.

Projects

GraDiM

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

A Visual Exploration of Two Museum Collections

Juxtaposing Fine Art Paintings with Everyday Artifacts

Topography of Violence

Visualizing Antisemitic Violence in Germany 1930–1938

The Fold

Rethinking Interactivity in Data Visualization

Reading Traces

Visualizing Fontane’s Reference Library

INFORMATION+ 2018

International Conference on Information Design & Visualization in Potsdam

DNBVIS

Visualization of Bibliographic Data and Content

Reverse Information Architecture

How is Exploration Manifested in Online Collections of Museums?

Publications

Activities

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.

Conference ● 11–12 Apr 2024

GraDiM

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.

Conference Talk ● 16–17 May 2024

MAI Tagung

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.

Talk ● 25 Oct 2024

DHELab

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).

Workshop ● 15 Apr 2024

Georg Kolbe Museum

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

Talk ● 31 Mar 2023

The Digital Image

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« .

Conference Talks ● 1 Mar 2022

DHd

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).

Invited Talk ● 21 Oct 2020

Digital Academy

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«.

Conference Talk & Poster ● 2–6 Mar 2020

DHd

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

Exhibition ● 6 Jun – 30 Dec 2019

fontane.200

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.

Conference Talks ● 1 Mar 2019

DHd & DH

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.

Courses

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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Course ● Summer 2020

Visualizing Cultural Collections

The project course »Visualizing Cultural Collections« (since 2014) brings together students from design, media studies, information science, and cultural management to analyze interfaces and develop new approaches with cultural institutions.


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