Data visualization research group situated between design, computing, and the humanities at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
#DataVis #DigitalHumanities #SciComm #DigitalCulturalHeritage #UrbanFutures #DataStories #InformationDesign #InteractionDesign #FHPotsdam
| Website | https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de |
🎉 Last night, @jona received the Designpreis Brandenburg for the project »I Want a Better Catastrophe« in the category: Digital Design, UX/UI, Game Design Young Professionals! 👏
The interface connects audio narration with open-ended exploration, offering new ways to navigate the complexities of the climate crisis. It is available as a free template!
▶️ https://flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com
📄 https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/projects/interactive-flowchart
New paper ✨
»Conceptual Analogues: Coming to Terms with Data Visualisation«
https://doi.org/10.11588/ic.2025.1.113533
In which I propose conceptual analogues as terms that fuse theory and practice to expand the language of data visualization. It is based on a contribution to the early-pandemic workshop »What is the Digital Doing?« and is out now in a special issue of Interface Critique, edited by Nina Tolksdorf and Lindsey Drury.
#DataVis #Critique #Theory #CriticalDataVis #DigitalHumanities #InterfaceDesign
🎡 We’re in Vienna for #ieeevis:
Gianna Grün presents the poster »What Makes Data Visualizations Difficult to Understand?« (with Christina Elmer & @nrchtct): https://gcgruen.github.io/ieeevis25poster-supplemental-material/Data-Dimensionality-Influence-on-Understanding-Visualizations-Poster-compressed.pdf
📄 https://gcgruen.github.io/ieeevis25poster-supplemental-material/Data-Dimensionality-Influence-on-Understanding-Visualizations.pdf
@markjan co-organizes the #VIS4DH workshop: https://vis4dh.dbvis.de
@nrchtct presents »Textarium: Entangling Annotation, Abstraction and Argument« (with @proff) at that workshop:
https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/textarium/
📄 https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13191
👋 Say hi!
Wrapping up #Nordmedia25 in Odense, I have to do a not so humble brag:
My PhD dissertation “Design + Data Journalism: Shifting epistemologies, values, and practices” won the prize for best thesis of the year at the Swedish association for Media and Communication research (FSMK).
I am very honoured and happy that many years of dedicated work brought me this fantastic result. The thesis can be read here:
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1903991&dswid=-1278
If you are in Berlin I can also give you a copy!
Passend zu den sommerlichen Temperaturen veröffentlicht der Tagesspiegel heute eine Datenstory zur räumlichen Verteilung privater Pools in Berlin und was diese über Hitze, Dichte und soziale Ungleichheit verrät:
https://interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/wo-berlins-private-pools-stehen-und-was-das-uber-die-stadt-verraet-luftbilder-hitze-wasser-ungleichheit-datenanalyse/
Die Analyse basiert auf einem Projekt aus dem Kurs »Mapping Cities – Making Cities«, in dem #InterfaceDesign und #UrbaneZukunft Studierende gemeinsam urbane Daten visualisieren und reflektieren: https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/mapping/
🏡 ❤️ Heute eröffnet »Souls of Future Homes« auf dem Ernst-Reuter-Platz in Berlin! Studierende aus Design und Urbane Zukunft zeigen visionäre Wohnformen rund um Fürsorge, Beziehungsmodelle & demografischen Wandel – spekulativ, poetisch, politisch.
📍 Bauhaus Reuse (BHROX), Ernst-Reuter-Platz
📅 25.–30. Juli, täglich 12–20 Uhr (außer Montag)
📱 AR-Installationen: Tablets/Smartphones mitbringen!
https://www.bauhaus-reuse.de/index.php/content/souls-of-future-homes/
Part I of CG&A SI on #CriticalDataVis is out https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/cg/2025/03 and we contribute two papers on interactivity and storytelling in #DataVis:
Toward Collective Storytelling: Investigating Audience Annotations in Data Visualizations
https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2025.3547944
Critical Interactivity: Exploration and Narration in Data Visualization
https://doi.org/10.1109/mcg.2025.3544684
Big thanks to editors Georgia Panagiotidou @mcnuttandrew @gotdairyya @nicolehengesbach Miriah Meyer!
We're excited to be in Lisbon for #DH2025 where we'll be sharing our latest work at the intersection of #DigitalHumanities and #DataVis:
👗 »3D Stories: Bringing Cultural Heritage Objects to Life«
try prototype → https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/3dstories/
🖼️ »Laying it all out: Collage as a co-creative method for designing collection interfaces«
see collages → https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/collagingworkshop/
📔 »Stereoscopic Journals: An archive interface entangling diary segments with photo series«
try prototype → http://stereoscopicjournals.it
In case you missed it: I designed and developed the new website for UCLAB, which we launched last week to celebrate the lab’s 10th anniversary.
Marian Dörk
Francesca
Urbane Zukunft
Jonas Pelzer