The Amazonia Future Lab https://amazoniafuturelab.fh-potsdam.de will exhibit their interactive video installation on material practices from the indigenous communities of the Upper Xingu at re:publica 24 in Berlin next week!
This week at the MAI-Tagung (museums and the internet) taking place at #JMBerlin, we present our ongoing research project »Granularities of dispersion and materiality – Visualizing a photo archive about diaspora«
Today and tomorrow we participate in The Value of the Digital #DHJewish conference in Potsdam and present our project »GraDiM: Granularities of dispersion and materiality – Visualizing a photo archive about diaspora«.
"This conference aims to critically (re)assess the value(s) of the Digital for the field of Jewish Studies as it has been developed and discussed over the past ten years."
Over the past two summers I had the privilege to co-teach experimental design courses, which not only yielded great projects, but also spawned stimulating discussions and discoveries with our students.
To document these kinds of journeys, Philipp @proff and i prepared #SyllabusSite, a template for rendering #Markdown files as scrollable one-pagers that gather readings, inspirations and results in a unique format:
In summer of 2022, Lamin Manneh and i held an experimental seminar that we called »Decolonizing Data Visualization – Visualizing Postcolonies«. In this course, we were particularly interested in the bidirectional engagement between #visualization and #decolonization: we wanted to ask critical questions about #DataVis, but also use the creative and communicative capacity of visualization to convey postcolonial issues:
Last year, Myriel Milicevic and i offered a nomadic course »Organigrams for/from the future« and visited ten organizations who shared insights about cooperative work practices. While #organigrams tend to represent traditional organizations, we explored how they could also stimulate our imagination. How would an economy built on solidarity, sustainability and survival look like?
powers of ten for interface design: zooming out from a simple button to our planet, this animation introduces the central concerns of #InterfaceDesign – as taught at #FHPotsdam – and sneaks in a few easter eggs and historical references along the way.
Last week @jona Pomerance presented the interactive and narrated #BetterCatastrophe flowchart at #infoplus2023 in Edinburgh. For this occasion we also released Interactive Flowchart as a free reusable template with detailed explanations of its structure, a visual step-by-step tutorial, and 12 student examples covering a range of well-known personal dilemmas.
Today at the EFHA International Conference 2023 in Utrecht, S. de Günther shares #DataVis prototype #ReFaReader combining narration and exploration – collaborative and cross-disciplinary research project #RestagingFashion on digitizing fashion history by @SabineDG Giacomo Nanni @dielindada@ikyriazi@nrchtct:
🧳 We are getting ready for @InfoPlusConf in a few days in Edinburgh!
@fidel Thomet and Nadia Zeissig will exhibit Xingú Entangled from the #AmazoniaFutureLab project and @jona Pomerance will talk about the interactive and narrated flowchart about #BetterCatastrophe.
How can we design visualizations of climate protection & how do they impact readers?
@framoriniii will present »From shock to shift: Data visualization for constructive climate journalism« on 27 Oct at #ieeevis in the Journalism & the Public panel.
The start-up service of #FHPotsdam produced a nice image film for our colleague Barbara Avila Vissirini and how she turned her research on visualizing German grammar into a company offering a range of innovative learning materials:
We are delighted to have Johanna Drucker visit us in Potsdam to give a presentation on her latest book: »Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present« (2022).
Besides being a critical voice for the fields of #datavis and #digitalhumanities, she is interested more broadly in visual forms of knowledge production including the history of writing.
🌳 🗺️ Der Park - Experimental cartography and storytelling
Today and tomorrow at Spreepark Berlin (→ Mero-Halle), this exhibition shows the semester work by design students who observed, measured and mapped the changing habitat of the former amusement park next to the Spree. These are the results from a course offered by my colleague Myriel Milicevic at #FHPotsdam in collaboration with Public Art Lab and the Future DiverCities EU project.
Tomorrow, Andrew Boyd visits us to present his new book »I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor« and to demo together with Jona Pomerance an early version of an interactive flowchart to help us navigate our climate predicament. Join us!
Three years ago i gathered data stories and visualizations on a wide range of feminist issues featuring work by @thepudding, Mona Chalabi, @kanarinka, @laurenfklein and #FHPotsdam students: