From Theory to Practice: Projects at the FH Potsdam at a Glance

Here you will find a current overview of selected projects at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. You can filter the projects by departments and degree programs, by project type, or by content focus.

    App Prototyping as an Inclusive Teaching-Learning Arrangement for the Integrative Development of Digital Skills at Upper Secondary Level

    The planned project will develop and empirically test a new approach to teaching digital skills through app prototyping.

    GraDiM: Granularities of dispersion and Materiality: Visualisation of a Photo Archive on Diaspora

    In collaboration with the photographer Frédéric Brenner and his international project team, the GraDiM research project is developing theoretical and technical concepts for the visualisation of a photographic archive, with particular sensitivity towards a collection documenting the Jewish diaspora.

    KLIMAKARTEN: Visualisation of Local Climate Futures

    A collaboration between the daily newspaper "taz" and UCLAB aimed at communicating future climate scenarios through various channels using data visualisations. To this end, both physical and digital postcards featuring visualisations of various aspects of climate protection in Germany were designed and produced.

    Amazonia as a Laboratory for the Future - Networking-Understanding-Mediation

    Using items from the collection as a starting point, we aim to break down barriers and create spaces for connection, understanding and communication.

    ReFa: Restaging Fashion - Digital Contextualisation of Fashion Sources

    The interdisciplinary research and digitisation project “Restaging Fashion. Visualisation of Fashion Sources” (ReFa) has developed exploratory approaches to collections held by the Kunstbibliothek Berlin – specifically its “Modebild – Lipperheide Costume Library” collection – and the Textiles Collection of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.

    DataSkop - What Happens to My Data?

    The DataSkop project, funded by the BMBF, explores the potential of innovative user interfaces and visualisations to promote users’ digital sovereignty.

    KOLLISIONEN - Media collisions as drivers of innovation for new approaches to cultural heritage

    The project explores the potential of immersion and narration for visualising and making cultural collections accessible.

    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…

    VIDAN: Visual and Dynamic Arrangements of Messages

    VIDAN develops innovative interaction and visualisation techniques for presenting and exploring 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

    Reading Traces: Visualising Fontane's Reference Library

    Research collaboration with the Theodor Fontane Archive in Potsdam.

    Close-Up Cloud: An Experimental Visualisation for Exploring Image Collections

    The Close-Up Cloud presents a visualisation approach that questions the separation of overview and detail. The iconographic details of images are summarised to reveal visual patterns in a collection and stimulate exploration through the holdings.