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nrchtct

@nrchtct@vis.social

Research professor for information visualization at design department of #FHPotsdam, part of https://wisskomm.social/@urbane_zukunft, and co-director of https://vis.social/@uclab_potsdam

#DataVis #InterfaceDesign #DigitalHumanities #UrbanFutures

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nrchtct, to random
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fire hydrants celebrated as important public infrastructure and collected as public-domain design inspiration:

https://www.dayroselane.com/hydrants

nrchtct, to history
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with Data by Design @laurenfklein and team offer a counter history of data visualization in the form of an interactive book featuring a range of visual and interactive materials to engage with – the project is now up for community review:

https://dataxdesign.io/

loving the "scrollytells" highlighting and explaining certain parts, variants, or layers of selected visualizations. so smart and so useful for teaching critical literacy!

#History #CriticalDataVis #DataVis #ScrollyTelling #Literacy

Scrolling along different iterations of William Playfair's "Exports & Imports to and from all of North America" (1801)

nrchtct, to history
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the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/ has an interesting permanent researcher position in Data Visualisation for Digital History:

https://recruitment.uni.lu/en/details.html?id=QMUFK026203F3VBQB7V7VV4S8&nPostingID=94665&nPostingTargetID=138501&mask=karriereseiten&lg=UK

nrchtct, to design
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Happy and honored to give a virtual keynote at the Symposium next week in Vancouver/online!

I will speak about conceptual analogues as a versatile vehicle to aid transdisciplinary collaboration in the intersecting contexts of , and .

https://crossingfonds.com/symposium-2024/

The program looks amazing and registration is still open. There are discounted rates for students, IBPOC, and emerging/underemployed professionals.

Birdbassador, to random

as we know from portlandia, a decade ago "quirky" gift shops used bird motifs on everything. now, quirky gift shops use mushrooms motifs. to me, this is a sign of the decay of the imperial core. we go from flight/escape to now the notion of waiting out the collapse and then thriving on the decay.

nrchtct,
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@janeadams @Birdbassador hmm… interesting! i noticed that the owls seem to get replaced by jellyfish on quirky tote bags, t-shirts, and pillow covers. going from wisdom and observing to entanglements and just going with the flow?

nrchtct,
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@janeadams @Birdbassador so i suppose Haraway has entered the gift shop so that we can indulge in tentacular consumption

nrchtct, to jupyter
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the new summer term starts with a set of revised tutorials:

☀️ https://infovis.fh-potsdam.de/tutorials/

they are hosted on and can be run anywhere where notebooks are supported.

nrchtct, to random
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elaborate yet sobering data story about gender gaps across the world and various sectors by Vanessa Fillis and Mafe Callejón:

https://flourish.studio/blog/international-womens-day/

nrchtct, to markdown
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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 , a template for rendering files as scrollable one-pagers that gather readings, inspirations and results in a unique format:

https://infovis.fh-potsdam.de/syllabus-site/

nrchtct,
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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 and : we wanted to ask critical questions about , but also use the creative and communicative capacity of visualization to convey postcolonial issues:

https://infovis.fh-potsdam.de/decolonizing/

nrchtct,
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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?

https://infovis.fh-potsdam.de/organigrams/

#InterfaceDesign #DataVis #NewWork #Cooperatives #Democracy #Utopia #Teaching #OER #FHPotsdam

nrchtct, to random
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»Sleeping across Europe. Night Train Map 2024« is a beautiful map of Europe's night train network. i love the colors and the vision behind it! it was created by @jurim of @backontrack who are "campaigning for more, better, affordable, long-distance and cross-border in Europe"

🗺️ https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/

/via @curiousdata

nrchtct, to FiberArts
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stitching as systems thinking — the art by Barrow Parke renders cosmologies as gorgeous textile paintings

https://hyperallergic.com/869524/for-barrow-parke-systems-are-the-medium/

ton, to random German

df.eu spam legt mächtig zu. was kann man noch tun?

nrchtct,
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@kristinHenry @ton i don’t have a special formula, but when the post is short enough i keep English and German versions in the same post - if not i add the English translation as a reply / thread. when having German text in images i add English and German captions into the Alt tag

nrchtct, to random
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loving meme that is going around! for those not managing ze German, it goes something like this:

"despite being late [or something else that might compromise one's ability or willingness to fight fascists], various sections are still there for you!"

see @framoriniii's terrific take on the unsorted librarians suggested by @Lambo

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Konnte nicht anders, sorry

✍🏼 EDIT: Dankeschön an @JensJot, der mich (siehe seinen Toot weiter unten) darauf aufmerksam gemacht hat, dass der Rhythmus zählt! Aus "Bibliotheks-" braucht nur "Büchereien-" zu werden, und schon bleibt dieser Slogan entscheidend länger im Gehörgang. 👇🏼

nrchtct,
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@Lambo nice! kann ich das bitte mit Büchern statt Flaggen haben?

https://digitalcourage.social/@CyberLaminat/111165865119374810
https://mastodon.social/@RitaWerner/111788792028961089

nrchtct, to Infographics
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This year's conference (News-Infographics-Analytics-Maps) takes place this Thursday and the talks will be streamed via Zoom (German). The schedule looks very promising!

https://news-infographics-analytics-maps.media/2024_agenda.html

nrchtct, to history
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Forced Homes: Antisemitic Housing Policy in Berlin 1939–1945

https://zwangsraeume.berlin/en

Online exhibition by @Aktives_Museum and @BerlinerStolpersteine with maps, timelines and stories commemorating the forced eviction and rehousing of thousands of Jews before their deportation.

Unfortunately, this is timely as @correctiv_org's latest research has shown - German Nazis are planning deportations again (German):
https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/neue-rechte/2024/01/10/geheimplan-remigration-vertreibung-afd-rechtsextreme-november-treffen/

nrchtct, to random
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some deadlines for and conferences coming up this summer:


4-6 Sep in Bangalore, Graz, online.
Abstract: 19 Jan
https://datapowerconference.org/data-power-2024/about-2024/


3-7 June in Arenzano/Genoa
Abstract/paper: 17/24 Jan
https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it


1-5 July in Copenhagen
Abstract/paper: 1/8 Feb
https://dis.acm.org/2024/call-for-papers/


27-31 May in Odense, DK
Short papers: 9 Feb
https://www.eurovis.org/eurovis/short-papers

nrchtct, to boardgames
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‘tis the season to play board games - a good time to appreciate the origin story of Monopoly, which was practically a plagiarized version of The Landlord’s Game by Lizzie Magie:

“a brilliant woman economist invented an anti-capitalist board game that was stolen by a lying, opportunistic man and repackaged as capitalist family fun”

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-landlords-game/

happy holidays, for those who celebrate and/or play

nrchtct, to IndustrialDesign
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powers of ten for interface design: zooming out from a simple button to our planet, this animation introduces the central concerns of – as taught at – and sneaks in a few easter eggs and historical references along the way.

great work by @boris and team!

▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKzEUAJnOE4

👉 https://interface.fh-potsdam.de

nrchtct, to random
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it might not be apparent from the posts here, but was a blast of inspiring presentations and lively conversations! thank you, Uta, Ben and the whole @InfoPlusConf team for making us feel so welcome in Edinburgh!

not sure if i am getting too old for live-posting or if it was the jam-packed program (probably both), but there was a lot of good things to take in: from workshops and presentations to the exhibition and socials…

nrchtct,
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some recurring themes in my notes:

  • vis co-design is expanding to involve formerly excluded people
  • there is a growing interest in improving the accessibility of vis
  • critical recognition of historically suppressed voices in our data
  • people can (and do) acquire data and vis literacy at many academic stages
  • digital tech is optional: the natural/physical world is full of data
  • sound and speech can complement visualizations
  • there is a growing concern for work-life balance

nrchtct,
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@seblammers several talks centered on designing visualizations for people with unique life experiences shaped by their age, abilities, and encounters with marginalization and discrimination. it seems our community is shifting focus from a single user to a plurality of people, all bringing diverse needs to the table.

nrchtct,
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what i also really liked about was that many presenters shared various materials making it easy to reuse these for teaching, research and practice.

here are some freely available tutorials, toolkits and templates:

https://www.marieneurath.org
https://www.lizbravob.com/data-distortion-exercises
https://chartbites.webflow.io
http://easydataviz.co
https://sonification.design
https://mitvis.github.io/olli/
https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/interactive-flowchart/

kristinHenry, to random
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Ok, so I'm really surprised to see so few posts about on mastodon in general, let alone on vis.social.

nrchtct,
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@wonderveilleuze @kristinHenry another reason for little activity on here is probably the current state of social media. there was a bit more activity on birdsite, but the alternatives to the fediverse (let's put it this way) do not interoperate and there is no easy way to follow what is being said across platforms. now thinking back to last week, maybe we could have had a registration party (as a social activity). i assume many attendees would feel very welcome here…

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