Projects of the Urban Futures Programme
Projects
Weitere ProjekteGraDiM: Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality – Visualising a Photo Archive on Diaspora
In collaboration with photographer Frédéric Brenner and his international project team, the GraDiM research project is developing theoretical and technical concepts for the visualisation of a photo archive with particular sensitivity for a collection documenting the Jewish diaspora.
CLIMATE MAPS: Visualising Local Climate Futures
Cooperation with the daily newspapers taz and UCLAB with the aim of conveying climate information via various channels using data visualisations. For this purpose, both physical and digital postcards with visualisations on different aspects of climate protection in Germany were designed and produced.
Amazonia as a Laboratory for the Future – Networking-Understanding-Communicating
Starting from collection objects, overcome borders and create spaces of networking, understanding and mediation.
IGiQ – Infrastructures of the Common in Community-Oriented Neighbourhood Development
Investigation of the potentials and implementation barriers for the realisation of "Infrastrukturen des Gemeinsamen".
Restaging Fashion – Digital Contextualisation of Vestimentary Sources
The interdisciplinary research and digitalisation project "Restaging Fashion. Visualisation of Vestimentary Sources" (ReFa) has developed explorative approaches to holdings from the Berlin Art Library with its collection Modebild – Lipperheide Costume Library and from the Fabrics collection of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg.
SpaceForce: Affective Force Fields in Urban Space
What makes urban places attractive? This question is both scientifically and politically topical in view of urban challenges such as population growth, rising rents and intensified social segregation between more and less attractive city districts.
CMI.BA – Center for Metropolitan Innovation in Bratislava
Model project of an ecologically and socially sustainable building modernization of the Nová Cvernovka Foundation in Bratislava, Slovakia
COLLISIONS – Media Collisions as Innovation Drivers for New Approaches to Cultural Heritage
The project explores the potential of immersion and narration for visualising and making available cultural assets.
SmartUpLab – Decision Support Tools for Integrated Mobility Systems
SmartUpLab develops an intelligently networked tool environment to support the introduction of innovative mobility systems.
Inter...what? Intersectionality! A Visual Introduction
What is intersectionality? How are discrimination and privilege related? What does intersectional discrimination mean? These questions are answered in the web-based article "Inter...was? Intersektionalität! – Eine visuelle Einführung" answers them. With a combination of text, animated illustration and interactive data visualisation, it offers an introduction to the socially relevant topic of…
Topography of Violence
Research cooperation with the Jewish Museum Berlin on the visualisation of anti-Semitic acts of violence between 1930 and 1938
VIDAN: Visual and Dynamic Arrangements of Messages
VIDAN develops new interaction and visualisation techniques for the representation and exploration of complex data
SoNAR (IDH): Interfaces to Data for Historical Social Network Analysis and Research
Project to investigate and demonstrate a research technology for historical network analysis
MaaS L.A.B.S.: User-Centred Mobility-as-a-Service Platform: Living, Automated, Demand- & Sharing-Oriented
Shaping the transport turnaround through flexible and demand-oriented local public transport
Local Office Luckenwalde
Cooperation between the TH Wildau, the city of Luckenwalde and University of Applied Sciences Potsdam for a local office of the Brandenburg universities in the district town of Luckenwalde in the district of Teltow-Fläming.
Reading Traces: Visualising Fontane's Reference Library
Research cooperation with the Theodor Fontane Archive Potsdam
Close-Up Cloud: An Experimental Visualisation for Exploring Image Collections
The Close-Up Cloud introduces a visualisation approach that challenges the separation of overview and detail. For this, the iconographic details of images are summarised to reveal visual patterns in a collection and to stimulate exploration through the holdings.
MaaS4P: Intelligent and Automated Mobility in Potsdam
Neighbourhood-based networked concept Mobility-as-a-Service for Potsdam (MaaS4P) with innovative and automated forms of public transport services
THEMIS.COG: Theoretical and Empirical Modelling of Identities and Attitudes in Collaborative Groups
The research project THEMIS.COG investigates social and psychological mechanisms of self-organised cooperation.
KoMoD – Test Field Automated and Connected Driving Düsseldorf
Practical testing of new technologies for vehicle-infrastructure networking as well as highly and fully automated driving in the digital test field Düsseldorf
Visualisation of Bibliographic Data and Content
Cooperation with the German National Library to research interactive visualisations of a comprehensive bibliographic collection
Cluster Living: Cluster Housing for Structurally and Socially Adaptable Housing Concepts for Resilient Urban Development
New forms of housing in the context of demographic and social change.
PaSyMo: Participatory System Modelling as a Tool for Integrated Urban Development
With PaSyMo, the Institute for Applied Research Urban Future develops digital tools for urban planning and participation processes.
COINS: Visualisation of a Numismatic Collection
In this project, we explore the potential of dynamic arrangements of a comprehensive coin collection based on different facets such as origin, material type, period, weight and size. The resulting layouts push the boundary between the physical display of coins and the representation of abstract data patterns that characterise the collection.
VIKUS: Visualisation of Cultural Collections
As part of the Visualisation of Cultural Collections project, graphical user interfaces for the interactive viewing of cultural objects are being researched. In co-operation with an innovative company in the field of media databases and a cultural institution with historically significant collections, scenarios and techniques for the visual exploration of cultural collections are being developed.