Courses

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.

This course embraces the web as a versatile and expressive medium for creating information-rich and dynamic interfaces. From buttons and boxes to events and animation, students will learn the basic building blocks for prototyping interactive web pages for diverse audiences and platforms.

Project course devoted to the visual analysis and communication of urban data with the goal to engage in critical reflections about the future of cities. Students of interface design and urban futures form interdisciplinary teams to pursue research and design at the intersection of their fields.

In this introductory course students learn to design, build, and critique data visualizations. Lectures cover the basic principles including visual variables, interactivity, temporal, geospatial, multidimensional, relational, and text visualization. Tutorials help create a personal data dossier.

Experimental design course on the visualization of organizational structures to encourage reflection and imagination about work and the economy. The course was held as a nomadic seminar at multiple locations in Berlin and Potsdam.

Self-organized reading seminar on information visualization. Students pick recent papers, discuss reflections, and write a survey paper, applying infovis insights to data storytelling, generative art, science communication, digital humanities, critical design.

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.

Experimental design course exploring the concept of decolonization through the lens of data visualization and vice versa, examining how power structures and visualization design intersect.

Networks are everywhere—from social media and history to biology and transport. Yet large networks often turn into unreadable “hair balls.” This course focused on designing experimental visualizations that highlight meaningful data relations on a self-chosen topic.

The aim in the course was to design and prototype a text-based information system in Virtual Reality. Students investigated challenges and opportunities, then created prototypes for immersive environments—exploring layout, readability, spatial structure, interaction, and typographic rules.