Marian Dörk

Wohoo! In good mapping news, the UN voted 164 to 1 (guess who) to recommend the Equal Earth projection over Mercator, which for centuries has shrunk Africa and inflated everything near the poles. Thank you, Togo!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa

Wonder how many UN delegates watched the West Wing episode beforehand. While the real White House is busy renaming gulfs and lakes, in fiction it might have paved the way for fairer maps:
https://youtu.be/eLqC3FNNOaI

#CorrectTheMap #EqualEarth #mercator #mapping

Kids Trends by Riley Walz is like the ngram viewer but for motifs in kids drawings over the last 20 years!

https://walzr.com/kids-trends/

it is based on the corpus of Artsonia, which describes itself as the “largest collection of student art, published by teachers and students from around the world.”

https://www.artsonia.com/

via @flowingdata@vis.social

#ArtHistory #Children

well-crafted and carefully curated collection of mobile website design - that also works well on desktop: https://www.loadmo.re

/via @arnicas@mstdn.social

#WebDev #Responsive #InterfaceDesign #MobileDevelopment

This Sunday #SachsenAnhalt elects a new state parliament. For the first time after 1945, a right-wing extremist party could take power in a German state. This is infuriating for many reasons and self-inflicted harm for those voting for them.

Tagesspiegel: mapping election results since 1990
https://interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/interaktive-karte-zur-wahl-in-sachsen-anhalt-alle-ergebnisse-seit-1990-im-detail/

DIW Berlin: AfD strongholds would suffer most under its policies
https://www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.1014790.de/publikationen/diw_aktuell/2026_0121/sachsen-anhalt_zeigt_das_afd-paradox__strukturschwache_afd-hochburgen_wuerden_unter_ihrer_politik_am_staerksten_leiden.html

IWH Halle: less than 10 cents of every euro the AfD promises funded
https://www.iwh-halle.de/publikationen/detail/ist-das-afd-wahlprogramm-fuer-sachsen-anhalt-finanzierbar-kosten-und-gegenfinanzierung-vor-der-landtagswahl-am-6-september-2026

This new documentary on Hilma af Klint on ARTE is well worth your time (if you manage French or German).

It captures the Swedish artist's visionary position between art, science, and spirituality, featuring insights from experts and relatives alongside early archival footage, and many of her abstract paintings: luminous, diagrammatic, and ahead of her time.

I was very lucky to have seen her work in New York in 2019.

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/127034-000-A/das-doppelleben-von-hilma-af-klint/

#HilmaAfKlint #ArtHistory #Abstraction #AbstractArt

Watch, listen, and learn something about Australian wildlife!

https://media.flow-mer.org.au/mosaic/

Field recordings and wildlife camera footage from an Australian wetland packaged into a beautifully crafted audiovisual scrollytelling piece featuring interactive timelines and a site-specific collection visualization by @mtchl@post.lurk.org and collaborators.

Well done!

#DataVis #SciComm #EnvironmentalHumanities #InterfaceDesign

»Tot comença al centre« — everything starts at the center. these are posters for Barcelona's Centres Cívics spring enrollment. each poster shows a head with the face filled with fractal-like patterns. there are 52 such civic centers spread across the city, offering various kinds of courses. publicly funded, decentralized cultural infrastructure. i can't tell how well the offerings are, but the posters sure look great!

#Barcelona #CentresCívics #CivicDesign #Illustration #CulturalInfrastructure

ugh, what a dark coincidence. just listened to this nice radio feature last night on growing recognition of walking, with particular mention of Leipzig, which is trying to make the city more pedestrian friendly while facing perpetual parking violations that obstruct view and passage for people on foot – and now we learn there has been a vehicle ramming into a pedestrian zone, killing two people.

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/schritt-fuer-schritt-durch-die-stadt-die-wiederentdeckung-des-zufussgehens-100.html (German)

#Leipzig #walking #mobility #safety

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

Tonight I attended Dominikus Baur's @dominikus@vis.social inaugural lecture on "Generative Design and Creative AI" at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences. An evocative introduction to his field, the role of rules and systems, and the importance of iteration and trimming. Looking forward to following what Dominikus and his students will do in this dynamic field in turbulent times.

The teaser image is from the ÆONS collection: https://aeons.art

#GenerativeDesign #HochschuleMünchen #mcbw

2-year professorship in »Information Visualization & Management« (Oct 2025–Sep 2027, W2) at #FHPotsdam with focus on data visualization, urban complexity & interdisciplinary research.

This is my parental leave replacement - feel free to reach out to me or @boris@vis.social if you have any questions.

Applications already due on 9 May!

Job ad: https://jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/a595f8ac675dc069c3de5b1020f38f70cb6897a30?ref=homepage
(this is in German, but teaching can be in English!)

#AcademicJobs #DataVis #DataViz #InterfaceDesign #UrbaneZukunft #UrbanFutures

we're seeing an undignified debate in Germany right now, sparked by the chancellor's use of subtly racist tropes about cityscapes and safety. instead of stoking resentment, why not seek to understand and appreciate the richness of diverse urban life? i keep thinking of Suzanne Hall's street projects at the LSE, which celebrate urban diversity with simple yet evocative visuals, such as mapping a single street against the world

https://newdiversities.mmg.mpg.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2015_17-02_04_Hall.pdf

#Diversity #Stadtbild #DataVis #Mapping

‘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

#LizzieMagie #BoardGames

🔥 🌍 The climate crisis is not a technical problem to be fixed by engineers, but a predicament we all have to face. This interactive flowchart by Andrew Boyd and Jona Pomerance is an invitation to hear the impossible news and navigate the implications:

👉 https://flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com

Please, give it a go, share your feedback and pass it on! It is an experimental prototype: We are curious to hear what you think.

#BetterCatastrophe #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #DataVis #Storytelling #InterfaceDesign

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@hci.social @gotdairyya@mastodon.social @nicolehengesbach@vis.social Miriah Meyer!

#FHPotsdam #OpenAccess #InterfaceDesign

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@vis.social and i prepared #SyllabusSite, a template for rendering #Markdown files as scrollable one-pagers that gather readings, inspirations and results in a unique format:

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

#WebDev #InterfaceDesign #FHPotsdam #DataVis #OpenSource

»Tragically, we are failing to avoid serious impacts, and we can now only hope to limit the extent of the damage. We are witnessing the grim reality of the forecasts as climate impacts escalate, bringing forth scenes of unprecedented disasters around the world and human and nonhuman suffering. We find ourselves amid an abrupt climate upheaval, a dire situation never before encountered in the annals of human existence.«

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae087/7808595

#climatecrisis #climatechange #datavis #dataviz

@dh2025@mastodon.social @adho@adho.org is there an ETA (estimated time of arrival) for the #DH2025 abstracts to be published? thank you

RT @markiaaan@twitter.com

We are looking for a researcher to work together with me on a 3-year project about »Granularities of dispersion and materiality—Visualizing a photo archive about diaspora«: https://karriere.fh-potsdam.de/jobposting/6a9a1b98715b75b0e0e5d1289df093c87af50e500?ref=homepage

📍Where: FH Potsdam (close to Berlin)
📅When: 01 Jan 2023
ℹ️Deadline: 25 Nov 2022 https://twitter.com/uclab_potsdam/status/1588468050176901120

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/markiaaan/status/1588567078117658625

in 1996, @benbendc@twitter.com gave us the task by data type taxonomy (with overview first etc), but when did the very prolific, yet slightly dated triad user–data–tasks become a thing in visualization? asking for a friend

RT @uclab_potsdam@twitter.com: Only a few days left to apply for the #datavis researcher position in our group!

Job ad:
– German: https://www.fh-potsdam.de/fileadmin/user_dateien/1_informieren/D_Profil/a_Stellenanzeigen/20180305.aka.MA.Doerk.02_2018._D_.pdf
– English: https://www.fh-potsdam.de/fileadmin/user_dateien/1_informieren/D_Profil/a_Stellenanzeigen/20180305.aka.MA.Doerk.02_2018._E_.pdf

/cc #ieeevis #dhd2018 #infoplus2018 #openvisconf #visber https://twitter.com/uclab_potsdam/status/960470943838670849
https://twitter.com/uclab_potsdam/status/969208789575634944