About me
I am a Research Professor for Information Visualization at the Institute for Urban Futures of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. My research and teaching center around novel visualizations in support of exploratory information practices in a variety of contexts. I am co-directing the Urban Complexity Lab, a transdisciplinary research group situated between design, computing, and humanities. One particular focus of our recent work has been the visualization of cultural collections.
During my PhD research at the University of Calgary (2008-2012) in the InnoVis group and Interactions Lab, I investigated the potential of visualizations for exploratory forms of search. As a postdoc at Newcastle University, Culture Lab (2012-2013), I worked on interactive visualizations of books and text documents. Over the years, I also had the chance to collaborate with researchers and engineers at Google, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, and Universidad de Chile. Before my PhD, I studied Computational Visualistics at the Universität Magdeburg (2003-2008).
Research areas
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Information Visualization
- Information Seeking
- Digital Humanities
- Urban Futures
Contact
- Email: doerk
fh-potsdam.de
- Telephone: +49 331 580 - 2511
- Social media: vis.social or Twitter
Teaching
My courses are primarily aimed at students in Urban Futures (MA), Interface Design (BA), Design (MA), and Information Science (BA/MA), but are open to other disciplines as well.
Winter 2018/2019
- Mapping Cities – Making Cities
- Cities as Complex Systems Reading Group
- Stadt als komplexes System (Vorlesungen zur digitalen Stadt)
Summer 2018
- Re-Designing Theodor Fontane. Literatur visualisieren und vermitteln mit Nicola Lepp, Michael Annoff, Wiebke Loeper, Franziska Morlok
- Postdigital Strategies [in Art and Design] with Magdalena Kovarik
- InfoVis Reading Group
- Städte der Zukunft modellieren, visualisieren, transformieren mit Tobias Schröder
Winter 2017/2018
- Mapping Cities – Making Cities
- Visualizing Cultural Collections
- Cities as Complex Systems Reading Group
- Stadt als komplexes System (Vorlesungen zur digitalen Stadt)
Summer 2017
- Visualisierung literarischer Narrative mit Jan-Erik Stange (in Koop. mit Uni Hamburg)
- Visualization: Cognition, Design, Analysis and Knowledge (in coop. with Uni Potsdam)
Winter 2016/2017
- Information Visualization
- Visualizing Cultural Collections
- Cities as Complex Systems Reading Group
- Stadt als komplexes System (Vorlesungen zur digitalen Stadt)
Summer 2016
- Information Visualization
- InfoVis Reading Group
- Leave a comment: Sozialforschung im digitalen Zeitalter mit Marion Godau & Tobias Schröder
Winter 2015/2016
- InfoVis Reading Group
- Visualizing Cultural Collections
- Urbaner Metabolismus mit Michael Prytula
- Mapping Zebras with Alsino Skowronnek & Till Nagel
Summer 2015
Winter 2014/2015
- Visualizing Cultural Collections
- Doing with Data with Boris Müller
Summer 2014
- InfoVis Reading Group
- Raum-Radar-Berliner Bibliotheken mit Hans-Christoph Hobohm & Hermann Voesgen
- Emotionen sichtbar machen mit Tobias Schröder
Winter 2013/2014
- Visual Information Exploration with Sebastian Meier
