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.

E-mail viktoria.brueggemann@fh-potsdam.de

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

Publication ● 2022
in: Konferenzband zur DHd2022: Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses

Von der Wolke zum Pfad: Visuelle und assoziative Exploration zweier kultureller Sammlungen

Die in den letzten Jahren entstandenen explorativen Visualisierungen musealer Sammlungen widmen sich zumeist einzelnen Sammlungen, welche oft einer spezifischen Systematik folgen und eine geringe Vielfalt an Objektgattungen und Attributen aufweisen. …
Publication ● 2021
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis). 40(3)

Topography of Violence: Considerations for Ethical and Collaborative Visualization Design

Based on a collaborative visualization design process involving sensitive historical data and historiographical expertise, we investigate the relevance of ethical principles in visualization design. While fundamental ethical norms like truthfulness …
Publication ● 2020
in: A. Geipel, J. Sauter & G. Hohmann (Eds.): Das digitale Objekt – Zwischen Depot und Internet (Deutsches Museum Studies Vol.7, pp. 115-123. Munich (Germany): Deutsches Museum Verlag.

Zwischen Distanz und Nähe. Formen der Betrachtung und Bewegung in (digitalen) Sammlungen

Digitale Sammlungen besitzen den Anspruch, die Sammlung in ihrer Gesamtheit zu veröffentlichen; sie entstammen ursprünglich intern erstellten und genutzten Datensätzen aus einem abgeschlossenen Sammlungsfundus; sie zeigen die Objekte nicht im …
Publication ● 2020
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly. 14:3

The Fold: Rethinking Interactivity in Data Visualization

We propose the philosophical notion of the fold as an evocative vocabulary for the design and critique of interactive data visualizations. An expanding range of application areas, such as digital art history and literary studies, illustrates the …
Publication ● 2020
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis). 39(3)

Reading Traces: Scalable Exploration in Elastic Visualizations of Cultural Heritage Data

Through a design study, we develop an approach to data exploration that utilizes elastic visualizations designed to support varying degrees of detail and abstraction. Examining the notions of scalability and elasticity in interactive visualizations, …
Publication ● 2020
museum4punkt0 Ergebnisse

Visuelle Exploration zweier musealer Sammlungen

Die Neukonzeption der Online-Sammlungen der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin ist eines der wichtigsten und umfassendsten Projekte innerhalb des Teilprojekts Visitor Journeys neu gedacht . Ziel ist es, die Objekte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin auch im …
Publication ● 2020
in: Konferenzband zur DHd 2020 Paderborn - Spielräume: Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation

Die Falte: Ein Denkraum für interaktive und kritische Datenvisualisierungen

Wir schlagen den philosophischen Begriff der Falte als Denkraum für die Gestaltung und Interpretation interaktiver Datenvisualisierungen vor. Visualisierungen geisteswissenschaftlicher Sammlungen bieten spannende Möglichkeiten für interaktive …
Publication ● 2019
In Book of Abstracts of the Digital Humanities conference (DH) 2019: Complexities. Utrecht (The Netherlands)

Scalable Exploration. Prototype Study For The Visualization Of An Author’s Library On The Example Of ‘Theodor Fontane’s Library’.

This article presents a prototype for the explorable and scalable visualization of an author’s library and its reading traces. It aims to combine design-oriented approaches to the visualization of cultural collections with philological, archival and …
Publication ● 2019
in: Konferenzband zur DHd 2019 Frankfurt & Mainz - Digital Humanities: multimedial & multimodal

Skalierbare Exploration. Prototypenstudie zur Visualisierung einer Autorenbibliothek am Beispiel der ›Handbibliothek Theodor Fontanes‹

Der Beitrag stellt einen vom Theodor-Fontane-Archiv der Universität Potsdam in Kooperation mit der Fachhochschule Potsdam entwickelten Prototyp zur explorier- und skalierbaren Visualisierung einer Autor*innenbibliothek und der darin enthaltenen …
Publication ● 2018
Dialog mit Bibliotheken

Die bibliografischen Daten der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek entfalten

Wie sieht die Zukunft der Recherche in digitalen Bibliothekskatalogen aus? Wie können umfangreiche und heterogene Sammlungsbestände mit Hilfe von Datenvisualisierungen besser zugänglich gemacht werden? Kann man durch eine digitale Bibliothek …
Publication ● 2017
First Monday. 22:4

Tracing exploratory modes in digital collections of museum websites using reverse information architecture

Museums are broadening their program beyond the physical institutions by providing digital collections online. In digital collections, objects are prepared and presented particularly for the Web and the ambition is to provide the entirety of a …
Publication ● 2016
in: Konferenzband zur 23. Berliner Veranstaltung der internationalen EVA-Serie: Electronic Media and Visual Arts

Museale Bestände im Web: Eine Untersuchung von acht digitalen Sammlungen

Museen erweitern ihr Vermittlungsangebot immer mehr über die physische Einrichtung hinaus, u.a. durch die Bereitstellung Digitaler Sammlungen im Web. Digitale Sammlungen zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass die in ihnen gezeigten Objekte speziell für …

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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