'Diagrams of Epidemiological Knowledge' (Formerly: 'Epidemics and Topological Experience') is a PhD research project in the field of Media Studies at the University of Hamburg. It was supported by the Research Training Group 'Loose Connections - Collectivity in Digital and Urban Space'. The project traces different forms of diagrammatic media and mediators in the recent history and practice of epidemiologists, especially maps, causal diagrams, and threshold visualizations in automated surveillance. The project combines archival research and expert interviews with epistemological problematizations in media theory and philosophy.

Together with architects and researchers Blake Fisher and Janet Hall, we compiled and visualized information about patents in the field of medicine and pharmaceutics, especially those that involve the patenting of new molecular combinations or genetic engineering. Our aim was to use the available data from patent registries to make sense of the knowledge economy of health and disease and to show the concentrations and enclosures in this field of vital human knowledge. The initial research responded to a call for emerging topics in information visualization. The results of this project have not yet been published.

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The project Immune Landscapes started as an MA thesis at Goldsmiths, University of London, and grew into different forms of publication such as lectures, videos, essays and installation. Originally, it was an investigation about topographies that are ascribed the status of legal immunity. Among the investigated sites were a mountain region in the German Black Forest that is legally protected by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, as well as diplomatic missions whose immunity has been legally regulated for centuries.

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Periskop was a contribution to the exhibition and art festival "Localize - Das Heimatfestival" in Potsdam, Germany. It responded to the festivals theme Heimat by focusing on a nearby area of allotment gardens that are contained within a triangle of train tracks and merely visible to the outside. The project consisted of a research performance, a booklet and an installation. During the research phase the researcher was equipped with an overviewing balloon that is both visible to the outside and documents the inside of the garden community while facing problems to enter the site. The situated documentation technique aimed to provoke reflection for the role of the heimat researcher, the tenants and the inside/outside schema simultaneously. The results where summarized in a semi-fictitious research report and exhibited together with photographs and research materials on-site.

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