After attending the IEEE conference in Vienna in November, Till Nagel returned to Vienna and St. Pölten for a series of talks and exchanges on urban visualization, extended reality, and data physicalization.
Till presenting speculative scenarios within the Crafting Futures project, and testing out an XR prototype from USTP. (Image courtesy of Wolfgang Aigner.)
At the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, he gave an invited lecture titled “Re-seeing the city: Urban Visualization Between Past and Future”, hosted by Wolfgang Aigner and his team from the Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies. The talk presented current projects from the Human Data Interaction Lab, including work on mobility and climate data, historical archives, and approaches to embedding visualizations in urban space using AR.
The visit also included inspiring chats with PhD students (e.g. Markus Passecker working on in-situ AR visualizations of cultural heritage), and an XR demo by Alexander Rind and colleagues on using extended reality for climate learning. There, Till also met with Florian Windhager (University for Continuing Education Krems) to critically reflect on visualizations in the context of generative AI.
In Vienna, further discussions took place at TU Wien, organized by Manuela Waldner from the Visualization Group, together with Daniel Cornel, Milena Vuckovic (VRVis), Daniel Pahr (University of Vienna) and colleagues. Topics included geovisualization (e.g. 3D outdoor mapping and flooding analysis) and data physicalization for urban climate and participatory systems.
The visit was super inspiring and offered a great opportunity to connect ongoing work and explore possible collaborations. A big thank you to Wolfgang and Manuela and all others as well!