Prof. Dr. Marian Dörk
Research professor for Information Visualization & Management
Co-director of Urban Complexity Lab (UCLAB)
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since October 2013
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Research Professor for "Information Visualization & Management".
Co-director of Urban Complexity Lab together with Prof. Boris Müller.
Founding of the research institute and master's program Urban Futures.
Further teaching in interface design and information sciences.
2012 - 2013
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
research associate (Postdoc) at Culture Lab
"PATINA: Personal Architectonics Through Interactions with Artefacts"
June - August 2012
Google, Paris, Frankreich
research internship: "Making Data Exploration More Inviting"
October - December 2011
Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
research internship: "Visualizing Academic Information Spaces"
July - October 2009
IBM Research, Cambridge, USA
research internship: "Supporting Participation in Large Scale Events"
2008 - 2012
University of Calgary, Kanada, Department of Computer Science
Ph.D. in Computer Science (GPA: 4,0)
supervisors: Sheelagh Carpendale und Carey Williamson
topic: "Visualization for Search: Exploring Complex and Dynamic Information Spaces"
May - September 2006
Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
research internship at the Centre for Web Research
topic: "Decentralized Photo Sharing on the Web"
2003 - 2008
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Faculty of Computer Science
Dipl.-Ing. in Computational Visualistics (German grade: 1,2)
since 2001
freelance web development and visualization design for research laboratories, academic conferences and non-profit organizations
Publications at FHP from 2018 onwards (according to core data set for research)
2025
- Marian Dörk. Conceptual Analogues: Coming to Terms with Data Visualisation. Interface Critique51-722025.
- Francesca Morini, Manuela Gerretón, Jona Pomerance, Nadia Zeissig, Sabine de Günther, Marian Dörk, Fidel Thomet, Linda Freyberg, Ilias Kyriazis, Andrea Scholz. Critical Interactivity: Exploration and Narration in Data Visualization. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications58-722025.
- Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk, Stefan Bruckner, Christian Tominski. Fluidly Revealing Information: A Survey of Un/foldable Data Visualizations. Computer Graphics Forum1-262025.
- Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Sarah Kreiseler, Silvia Casavola, Jona Pomerance, Marian Dörk. Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality: Visualizing a Photo Archive about the Jewish Diaspora. Medaon1-192025.
- Theresa Eingartner, Johanna Drucker, Marian Dörk. Inflecting Data Visualizations for Web-based Scrollytelling. 27th Eurographics Conference on Visualization2025.
- Philipp Proff, Marian Dörk. Textarium: Entangling Annotation, Abstraction and Argument. 9th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities14-202025.
- Tobias Kauer, Marian Dörk, Benjamin Bach. Towards Collective Storytelling: Investigating Audience Annotations in Data Visualizations. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications17-312025.
2024
- Tobias Kauer, Derya Akbaba, Marian Dörk, Benjamin Bach. Discursive Patinas: Anchoring Discussions in Data Visualizations. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics1413-14232024.
2023
- Giacomo Nanni, Linda Freyberg, Sabine de Günther, Marian Dörk. "The research is happening in the text fields": Are Linked Open Data and Art History a good match?. Digital Humanities 2023 : Collaboration as Opportunity1-22023.
- Ester Scheck, Andrea Binn, Marian Dörk, Florian Ledermann. A Contemporary Nolli Map: Using OpenStreetMap Data to Represent Urban Public Spaces. Abstracts of the ICA1-22023.
- Manuela Garretón, Francesca Morini, Pablo Celhay, Marian Dörk, Denis Parra. Attitudinal effects of data visualizations and illustrations in data stories. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics4039-40542023.
- M. Garreton, Francesca Morini, D. Paz Moyano, G.-C. Grün, D. Parra, Marian Dörk. Data Stories of Water: Studying the Communicative Role of Data Visualizations within Long‐form Journalism. Computer Graphics Forum99-1102023.
- Francesca Morini, Anna Eschenbacher, Johanna Hartmann, Marian Dörk. From shock to shift: Data visualization for constructive climate journalism. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics1-112023.
- Ester Scheck, Florian Ledermann, Andrea Binn, Marian Dörk. Mapping public space in urban neighbourhoods using OpenStreetMap data. State of the Map Europe 202333-372023.
- Francesca Morini, Marian Dörk, Ester Appelgren. Sensing what's new: considering ethics when using sensor data in journalistic practices. Digital Journalism465-4832023.
- Sabine de Günther, Giacomo Nanni, Ilias Kyriazis, Linda Freyberg, Marian Dörk. Tracing and Telling: Exploring collection holdings through graph-based narratives. Electronic Media and Visual Arts333-3382023.
- Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk, Christian Tominski. Unfolding Edges: Adding Context to Edges in Multivariate Graph Visualization. Computer Graphics Forum297-3092023.
2022
- Sara Akhlaq, Arran Ridley, Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk. Data Montage: Towards Coherence in Multimodal Data Representation. 2022.
- Hannah Schwan, Jonas Arndt, Marian Dörk. Disclosure as a critical-feminist design practice for Web-based data stories. First Mondayohne Seitenzahl-ohne Seitenzahl2022.
- Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Christopher Pietsch, Marian Dörk. Von der Wolke zum Pfad: Visuelle und assoziative Exploration zweier kultureller Sammlungen. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2022 : Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses1-52022.
- Mark-Jan Bludau, Thorsten Halling, Eva Maria Holly, Jasmin Wieloch, Hannes Schnaitter, Sandra Balck, Melina Plakidis, Georg Rehm, Heiner Fangerau, Marian Dörk. Was sehe ich? Visualisierungsstrategien für Datentransparenz in der Historischen Netzwerkanalyse. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2022 : Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses1-52022.
2021
- Pauline Junginger, Marian Dörk. Categorizing queer identities: An analysis of archival practices using the concept of boundary objects. Journal of Feminist Scholarship66-792021.
- Kendra A. Wannamaker, Sandeep Zechariah George Kollanur, Marian Dörk, Wesley Willett. I/O Bits: User-Driven, Situated, and Dedicated Self-Tracking. ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2021523-5372021.
- Andrea Scholz, Thiago da Costa Oliveira, Marian Dörk. Infrastructure as digital tools and knowledge practices: Connecting the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin with amazonian indigenous communities. 299-3152021.
- Sara Akhlaq, Sabine de Günther, Sarah Kreiseler, Marian Dörk. Let's visit museum collections: What can we gather about the data?. 2021.
- Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk, Frank Heidmann. Relational perspectives as situated visualizations of art collections. Digital Scholarship in the Humanitiesii17-ii292021.
- Anna Busch, Mark-Jan Bludau, Viktoria Brüggemann, Marian Dörk, Kristina Genzel, Klaus-Peter Möller, Sabine Seifert, Peer Trilcke. Skalierbare Exploration. Prototypenstudie zur Visualisierung einer Autorenbibliothek am Beispiel der ›Handbibliothek Theodor Fontanes‹. 204-2072021.
- Tobias Kauer, Marian Dörk, Arran Ridley, Benjamin Bach. The Public Life of Data: Investigating Reactions to Visualizations on Reddit. ACM CHI Virtual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems1-122021.
- Fabian Ehmel, Viktoria Brüggemann, Marian Dörk. Topography of Violence: Considerations for Ethical and Collaborative Visualization Design. Computer Graphics Forum13-242021.
- Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk, Christian Tominski. Unfolding Edges for Exploring Multivariate Edge Attributes in Graphs. 23rd Eurographics Conference on Visualization17-192021.
- Sarah Goodwin, Sebastian Meier, Lyn Bartram, Alex Godwin, Till Nagel, Marian Dörk. Unravelling the Human Perspective and Considerations for Urban Data Visualization. 2021 IEEE 14th Pacific Visualization Symposium126-1302021.
2020
- Victoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk. Die Falte: Ein Denkraum für interaktive und kritische Datenvisualisierungen. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2020 : Spielräume - Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation1-42020.
- Philipp Geuder, Marie Claire Leidinger, Martin von Lupin, Marian Dörk, Tobias Schröder. Emosaic: Visualizing Affective Content of Text at Varying Granularity. 2020.
- Sina Menzel, Mark-Jan Bludau, Elena Leitner, Marian Dörk, Julián Moreno-Schneider, Vivien Petras, Georg Rehm. Graph Technologies for the Analysis of Historical Social Networks Using Heterogeneous Data Sources. Graph Technologies in the Humanities 2020124-1492020.
- Mark-Jan Bludau, Viktoria Brüggemann, Anna Busch, Marian Dörk. Reading Traces: Scalable Exploration in Elastic Visualizations of Cultural Heritage Data. Computer Graphics Forum77-872020.
- Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk, Heiner Fangerau, Thorsten Halling, Elena Leitner, Sina Menzel, Gerhard Müller, Vivien Petras, Georg Rehm, Clemens Neudecker, David Zellhiefer, Julian Moreno Schneider. SoNAR (IDH): Datenschnittstellen für historische Netzwerkanalyse. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2020 : Spielräume - Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation1-32020.
- Pauline Junginger, Dennis Osterdorf, Barbara Avila Vissirini, Anastasia Voloshina, Timo Hausmann, Sarah Kreiseler, Marian Dörk. The close-up cloud: visualizing details of image collections in dynamic overviews. International Journal for Digital Art History6.02-6.132020.
- Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk. The Fold: Rethinking Interactivity in Data Visualization. Digital humanities quarterly : DHQ1-162020.
- Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk. Zwischen Distanz und Nähe: Formen der Betrachtung und Bewegung in (digitalen) Sammlungen. 115-1232020.
2019
- Hannah Schwan, Janina Jacke, Rabea Kleymann, Jan-Erik Stange, Marian Dörk. Narrelations: Visualizing Narrative Levels and their Correlations with Temporal Phenomena. Digital humanities quarterly : DHQ1-272019.
- Judith Ackermann, Marian Dörk, Hanne Seitz. PKKB: Postdigitale Kunstpraktiken: Ästhetische Begegnungen zwischen Aneignung, Produktion und Vermittlung. 173-1842019.
- Marian Dörk, Tobias Schröder. Städte der Zukunft modellieren, visualisieren, transformieren: Das Beispiel Eberswalde. 2019.
2018
- Marian Dörk, Katrin Glinka. Der Sammlung gerecht werden: Kritisch-generative Methoden zur Konzeption
experimenteller Visualisierungen. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2018 : Kritik der digitalen Vernunft162-1662018. - Florian Windhager, Katrin Glinka, Eva Mayr, Günther Schreder, Marian Dörk. Zur Weiterentwicklung des “cognition support”: Sammlungsvisualisierungen als Austragungsort kritisch-kulturwissenschaftlicher Forschung. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2018 : Kritik der digitalen Vernunft341-3452018.
2017
- Max Priebe, Timo Szczepanska, Tobias Schröder, Michael Prytula, Marian Dörk. Potentiale partizipativer Systemmodellierung in Brandenburger Kommunen. 2017.
- Katrin Glinka, Christopher Pietsch, Marian Dörk. Von sammlungsspezifischen Visualisierungen zu nachnutzbaren Werkzeugen. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2017 : Digitale Nachhaltigkeit204-2072017.
2016
- Katrin Glinka, Christopher Pietsch, Carsten Dilba, Marian Dörk. Linking structure, texture and context in a visualization of historical drawings by Frederick William IV (1795-1861). International Journal for Digital Art History118-2132016.
2015
- Katrin Glinka, Marian Dörk. Museum im Display: Visualisierung kultureller Sammlungen (Vikus). EVA Berlin 2015 (1)21-272015.