Prof. Dr. Marian Dörk

Research professor for Information Visualization & Management

Co-director of Urban Complexity Lab (UCLAB)

Unit

Department of Design

Institute for Applied Research Urban Futures (IaF)

marian.doerk@fh-potsdam.de

Phone

+49 331 580-4422

Room

H.1.11

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Main Building (H)

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Weblinks

Urban Complexity Lab (UCLAB)

Personal website

CV

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)

2026

Jona Pomerance, Andrew Boyd, Marian Dörk (2026): Navigating and Narrating Interactive Flowcharts
Journal of Visualization and Interaction.

2025

Marian Dörk (2025): Conceptual Analogues: Coming to Terms with Data Visualisation
Interface Critique, Band 5, S. 51-72.
Francesca Morini, Manuela Gerretón, Jona Pomerance, Nadia Zeissig, Sabine de Günther, Marian Dörk, Fidel Thomet, Linda Freyberg, Ilias Kyriazis, Andrea Scholz (2025): Critical Interactivity: Exploration and Narration in Data Visualization.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 58-72.
Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk, Stefan Bruckner, Christian Tominski (2025): Fluidly Revealing Information: A Survey of Un/foldable Data Visualizations.
Computer Graphics Forum, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 1-26.
Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Sarah Kreiseler, Silvia Casavola, Jona Pomerance, Marian Dörk (2025): Granularities of Dispersion and Materiality: Visualizing a Photo Archive about the Jewish Diaspora.
Medaon, Band 19, Heft 36, S. 1-19.
Theresa Eingartner, Johanna Drucker, Marian Dörk (2025): Inflecting Data Visualizations for Web-based Scrollytelling
In: EuroVis 2025 Short Papers. 27th Eurographics Conference on Visualization. Niederlande: Eurographics Association.
Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk (2025): Laying it all out : Collage as a co-creative method for designing collection interfaces
In: Digital Humanities 2025 : Book of Abstracts. Digital Humanities 2025 : Accessibility & Citizenship. Amsterdam: Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.
Silvia Casavola, Gabriele Colombo, Marian Dörk (2025): Stereoscopic Journals : an archive interface entangling diary segments with photo series
In: Digital Humanities 2025 : Book of Abstracts. Digital Humanities 2025 : Accessibility & Citizenship. Amsterdam: Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.
Philipp Proff, Marian Dörk (2025): Textarium: Entangling Annotation, Abstraction and Argument
In: 2025 IEEE Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (VIS4DH). 9th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities. New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). S. 14-20.
Tobias Kauer, Marian Dörk, Benjamin Bach (2025): Towards Collective Storytelling: Investigating Audience Annotations in Data Visualizations.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 17-31.

2024

Tobias Kauer, Derya Akbaba, Marian Dörk, Benjamin Bach (2024): Discursive Patinas: Anchoring Discussions in Data Visualizations.
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 1413-1423.

2023

Giacomo Nanni, Linda Freyberg, Sabine de Günther, Marian Dörk (2023): "The research is happening in the text fields": Are Linked Open Data and Art History a good match?.
In: Book of Abstracts: Digital Humanities 2023. Digital Humanities 2023 : Collaboration as Opportunity. Graz: Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities. S. 1-2.
Ester Scheck, Andrea Binn, Marian Dörk, Florian Ledermann (2023): A Contemporary Nolli Map: Using OpenStreetMap Data to Represent Urban Public Spaces.
Abstracts of the ICA, Heft 6, S. 1-2.
Manuela Garretón, Francesca Morini, Pablo Celhay, Marian Dörk, Denis Parra (2023): Attitudinal effects of data visualizations and illustrations in data stories
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, Band 30, Heft 7, S. 4039-4054.
M. Garreton, Francesca Morini, D. Paz Moyano, G.-C. Grün, D. Parra, Marian Dörk (2023): Data Stories of Water: Studying the Communicative Role of Data Visualizations within Long‐form Journalism.
Computer Graphics Forum, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 99-110.
Francesca Morini, Anna Eschenbacher, Johanna Hartmann, Marian Dörk (2023): From shock to shift: Data visualization for constructive climate journalism.
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, S. 1-11.
Ester Scheck, Florian Ledermann, Andrea Binn, Marian Dörk (2023): Mapping public space in urban neighbourhoods using OpenStreetMap data
In: Proceedings of OSM Science 2023. State of the Map Europe 2023. Belgien: State of the Map Europe. S. 33-37.
Francesca Morini, Marian Dörk, Ester Appelgren (2023): Sensing what's new: considering ethics when using sensor data in journalistic practices.
Digital Journalism, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 465-483.
Sabine de Günther, Giacomo Nanni, Ilias Kyriazis, Linda Freyberg, Marian Dörk (2023): Tracing and Telling: Exploring collection holdings through graph-based narratives.
In: EVA BERLIN 2023: Elektronische Medien & Kunst, Kultur und Historie. Electronic Media and Visual Arts. Cottbus: BTU Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg. S. 333-338.
Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk, Christian Tominski (2023): Unfolding Edges: Adding Context to Edges in Multivariate Graph Visualization.
Computer Graphics Forum, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 297-309.

2022

Sara Akhlaq, Arran Ridley, Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk (2022): Data Montage
Hannah Schwan, Jonas Arndt, Marian Dörk (2022): Disclosure as a critical-feminist design practice for Web-based data stories
Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Christopher Pietsch, Marian Dörk (2022): Von der Wolke zum Pfad: Visuelle und assoziative Exploration zweier kultureller Sammlungen.
In: DHd2022 : Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses: Konferenzabstracts. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2022 : Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses. Hamburg: Verband Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V.. S. 1-5.
Mark-Jan Bludau, Thorsten Halling, Eva Maria Holly, Jasmin Wieloch, Hannes Schnaitter, Sandra Balck, Melina Plakidis, Georg Rehm, Heiner Fangerau, Marian Dörk (2022): Was sehe ich? Visualisierungsstrategien für Datentransparenz in der Historischen Netzwerkanalyse
In: DHd2022 : Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses: Konferenzabstracts. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2022 : Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses. Hamburg: Verband Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V.. S. 1-5.

2021

Pauline Junginger, Marian Dörk (2021): Categorizing queer identities
Kendra A. Wannamaker, Sandeep Zechariah George Kollanur, Marian Dörk, Wesley Willett (2021): I/O Bits
Andrea Scholz, Thiago da Costa Oliveira, Marian Dörk (2021): Infrastructure as digital tools and knowledge practices: Connecting the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin with amazonian indigenous communities.
In: Digitalisierung ethnologischer Sammlungen: Perspektiven aus Theorie und Praxis. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. S. 299-315.
Sara Akhlaq, Sabine de Günther, Sarah Kreiseler, Marian Dörk (2021): Let's visit museum collections: What can we gather about the data?
Konferenz: Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2021: Experimente.
Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk, Frank Heidmann (2021): Relational perspectives as situated visualizations of art collections
Anna Busch, Mark-Jan Bludau, Viktoria Brüggemann, Marian Dörk, Kristina Genzel, Klaus-Peter Möller, Sabine Seifert, Peer Trilcke (2021): Skalierbare Exploration. Prototypenstudie zur Visualisierung einer Autorenbibliothek am Beispiel der ›Handbibliothek Theodor Fontanes‹
Konferenz: Digital humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2019 : Digital Humanities: multimedial & multimodal.
Tobias Kauer, Marian Dörk, Arran Ridley, Benjamin Bach (2021): The Public Life of Data: Investigating Reactions to Visualizations on Reddit.
In: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM CHI Virtual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. S. 1-12.
Fabian Ehmel, Viktoria Brüggemann, Marian Dörk (2021): Topography of Violence
Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk, Christian Tominski (2021): Unfolding Edges for Exploring Multivariate Edge Attributes in Graphs
In: 21st Eurographics Conference on Visualization. 23rd Eurographics Conference on Visualization. Niederlande: Eurographics Association. S. 17-19.
Sarah Goodwin, Sebastian Meier, Lyn Bartram, Alex Godwin, Till Nagel, Marian Dörk (2021): Unravelling the Human Perspective and Considerations for Urban Data Visualization

2020

Victoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk (2020): Die Falte: Ein Denkraum für interaktive und kritische Datenvisualisierungen.
In: DHd 2020 Spielräume: Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation: Konferenzabstracts. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2020 : Spielräume - Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation. Hamburg: Verband Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V.. S. 1-4.
Philipp Geuder, Marie Claire Leidinger, Martin von Lupin, Marian Dörk, Tobias Schröder (2020): Emosaic: Visualizing Affective Content of Text at Varying Granularity
Sina Menzel, Mark-Jan Bludau, Elena Leitner, Marian Dörk, Julián Moreno-Schneider, Vivien Petras, Georg Rehm (2020): Graph Technologies for the Analysis of Historical Social Networks Using Heterogeneous Data Sources
In: Graph Technologies in the Humanities: Proceeding 2020. Graph Technologies in the Humanities 2020. Aachen: RWTH Aachen. S. 124-149.
Mark-Jan Bludau, Viktoria Brüggemann, Anna Busch, Marian Dörk (2020): Reading Traces
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 (2020): SoNAR (IDH): Datenschnittstellen für historische Netzwerkanalyse.
In: DHd 2020 Spielräume: Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation: Konferenzabstracts. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2020 : Spielräume - Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation. Hamburg: Verband Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V.. S. 1-3.
Pauline Junginger, Dennis Osterdorf, Barbara Avila Vissirini, Anastasia Voloshina, Timo Hausmann, Sarah Kreiseler, Marian Dörk (2020): The close-up cloud
Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk (2020): The Fold: Rethinking Interactivity in Data Visualization.
Digital humanities quarterly : DHQ, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 1-16.
Viktoria Brüggemann, Mark-Jan Bludau, Marian Dörk (2020): Zwischen Distanz und Nähe: Formen der Betrachtung und Bewegung in (digitalen) Sammlungen.
In: Das digitale Objekt: Zwischen Depot und Internet. München: Deutsches Museum Verlag. S. 115-123.

2019

Hannah Schwan, Janina Jacke, Rabea Kleymann, Jan-Erik Stange, Marian Dörk (2019): Narrelations: Visualizing Narrative Levels and their Correlations with Temporal Phenomena.
Digital humanities quarterly : DHQ, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 1-27.
Judith Ackermann, Marian Dörk, Hanne Seitz (2019): PKKB: Postdigitale Kunstpraktiken: Ästhetische Begegnungen zwischen Aneignung, Produktion und Vermittlung.
In: Forschung zur Digitalisierung in der Kulturellen Bildung. München: kopaed. S. 173-184.
Marian Dörk, Tobias Schröder (2019): Städte der Zukunft modellieren, visualisieren, transformieren: Das Beispiel Eberswalde.
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2018

Marian Dörk, Katrin Glinka (2018): Der Sammlung gerecht werden
Florian Windhager, Katrin Glinka, Eva Mayr, Günther Schreder, Marian Dörk (2018): Zur Weiterentwicklung des “cognition support”

2017

Max Priebe, Timo Szczepanska, Tobias Schröder, Michael Prytula, Marian Dörk (2017): Potentiale partizipativer Systemmodellierung in Brandenburger Kommunen
Katrin Glinka, Christopher Pietsch, Marian Dörk (2017): Von sammlungsspezifischen Visualisierungen zu nachnutzbaren Werkzeugen

2016

Katrin Glinka, Christopher Pietsch, Carsten Dilba, Marian Dörk (2016): Linking structure, texture and context in a visualization of historical drawings by Frederick William IV (1795-1861)
International Journal for Digital Art History, Band 2016, Heft 2, S. 118-213.

2015

Katrin Glinka, Marian Dörk (2015): Museum im Display: Visualisierung kultureller Sammlungen (Vikus).
In: Konferenzband EVA Berlin 2015: Elektronische Medien & Kunst, Kultur und Historie: 22. Berliner Veranstaltung der internationalen EVA-Serie: Electronic Media and Visual Arts. EVA Berlin 2015 (1). 2. korrigierte Auflage. Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. S. 21-27.

Selected projects

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

Visualisation of Bibliographic Data and Content

Cooperation with the German National Library to research interactive visualisations of a comprehensive bibliographic collection