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💥NEW NEW NEW💥 Reimaging Archives: Visual Feminist Epistemologies in Digital Access, Open Panel Organisation @4s 2025 conference Seattle💥NEW NEW NEW💥
Lectures and Talks (selection)
September 25 Reimagining Archives: Visual Feminist Epistemologies in Digital Access | Panel @4S 2025 Seattle Conference (theme: Reverberations)
July 25 (In)Visibility in 21st century Archives | Session @Swiss Congress of Historical Sciences 2025, University of Luzern
March 25 Imaging Otherwise: Data Visualisation as Epistemic Data Feminist Practice | DHCH PhD Day, University of Bern
February 25 Critical Publishing | BA Doing Fashion, Basel Academy of Art and Design, FHNW
February 24 How can we map the network structures engendered by THEswissTHING through archival practice and digital humanities approaches? Archiving Networks (workshop with project partners), Basel Academy of Art and Design, FHNW, together with Dr. Stefanie Bräuer, Dr. Lucie Kolb, Philipp Messner
November 23 THEswissTHING will connect you to the THINGNET and the Internet—a postcard from 1995 | A Media History in n+1 Sources, University of Basel, together with Dr. Lucie Kolb, Dr. Stefanie Bräuer, Philipp Messner
November 23 Transverse & Timetravel: Writing Practices in Design and Artistic Research | Research Day Basel Academy of Art and Design, FHNW, together with Dr. Stefanie Bräuer, Dr. Lucie Kolb
November 23 Historische Forschung im Netz: Ein Blick aus den Designwissenschaften | Fundamental research of the Swiss Society for History and the Digital Humanities of the University of Bern, together with Adrian Demleitner, Katharina Scheller
November 23 Venus in two Acts: Writing with and Against the Archive | University of Bern, Institute of Social Anthropology
June 23 Workshop “Wir publizieren” with students from Lucerne School of Art and Design HSLU | Academy of Arts Bern, BFH
Dezember 22 Research day | Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design, FHNW
August 21 Kritisieren, Spekulieren, Intervenieren | Lecture series “Schnittstelle”, University of the Arts Linz, together with Dr. Lucie Kolb
January 19 Anprangern, Abwandeln, Abschaffen – Das kritische Potenzial von Editorial Design | Open House, Academy of the Arts Bern, BFH
Writing (selection)
2025 Kolb, L., & Kothe, L. (2025). Metadata Gruntwork – Infrastructuring Openness. De Gruyter: Berlin (Upcoming)
2024 Kolb, L., & Kothe, L. (2024). Working With and Against the Archive. Brand-New-Life. https://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/49366
2024 Kothe, L. (2024). Moss matters, encounters in a non-verbal language. DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.11080339
2024 Kothe, L. (2024). Dear Dear people, this is a plea in favour of re-reading. Essay for Anthropological Perspectives on Archives, Memory, and Mediality, University of Bern, Institute of Social Anthropology
2024 Kothe, L. (2024) Crafting Digital Realms: Four Key Guiding Principles of Conceptualising Virtual Exhibitions, University of Groningen
2019 Kothe, L. (2019). Anprangern, Abwandeln, Abschaffen – Das kritische Potenzial von Editorial Design
2019 Kothe, L. (2019). Figuren des Widerstands. https://www.hkb.bfh.ch/dam/jcr:cb6f7895-c182-4fe7-bb44-be5b1b7da323/hkb_zeitung-4-19_web.pdf
Teaching (selection)
2024 Who owns the city?, Seminar, Bachelor and Master, Y Institute of Transdisciplinarity, Academy of the Arts Bern, BFH
2023 There is a monster inside all of us, Seminar, Bachelor and Master, Y Institute of Transdisciplinarity, Academy of the Arts Bern, BFH
2022 From strolling to scrolling - the flâneur as a motif, Seminar, Bachelor and Master, Y Institute of Transdisciplinarity, Academy of the Arts Bern, BFH
2020—2023 History of Visual Communication, Seminar, Bachelor of Visual Communication, Academy of the Arts Bern, BFH
2022—2023 Scientific Writing, Seminar, Bachelor and Master, Academy of the Arts Bern, BFH
2020 Design as Criticism, Seminar, Bachelor of Visual Communication, Academy of the Arts Bern, BFH
Exhibitions
2020 “Finale20”, Bern University of the Arts
2019 “Diplomsommer”, Bern University of the Arts
2017/18 “Édition/Forme/Expérimentation” at Arprim, centre d’essai en art imprimé, Montréal
2017 “it’s a book”, independent publishing fair, Leipzig
2016 “Call me!”, Designexport, Hamburg
2015 “Quo vadis Editorial Design?”, Munich
2014/15 Leipziger book fair, Leipzig
2014 TYPO Berlin, Berlin
Awards & Nominations
2021 Josef Müller-Brockmann Award, SGV Swiss Graphic Designers Association 2021, shortlist
2021 best practice example for research-based teaching for the BA seminar “Kritik durch Design”, Bern University of the Arts
2018 100 beste Plakate, D, CH, AUT
2016 promotional prize for young book design, longlist
2015 Ditze Prize, best project, winner in the category lectures/workshop/exhibition
2014 Art Directors Club Germany ADC Award Bronze
2015 German Designer Club DDC, category “future”
Interviews/Reviews
2019 Interview Brain Magazine, Vol. 713, Sendenkaigi Publishing, Tokyo, S.4/5.
2018 Review Art in Book Form, SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd. 2018. S.86/87.
2018 Interview It’s nice that The Lething Compendium by Lara Kothe teaches you how to forget everything
2018 Interview Grafik Magazine
2016 Review Design made in Germany
2014 Review Design made in Germany
Work (selection)
since 2023 PhD Candidate “Sharing Knowledge in the Arts”, Sinergia Project, Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel
since 2023 researcher @Critical Media Lab, Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures IXDM, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel
2020–2023 project coordinator “Wir publizieren”, Bern University of the Arts
2018–2023 researcher in the research field Design History, Institute of Design Research, Bern University of the Arts
2017–2022 graphic designer Atelier HKB, Bern University of the Arts
2017–2020 associate researcher, “Swiss Graphic Design and Typography Revisited”, Sinergia Project, Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF, Bern University of the Arts
since 2016 graphic designer, self-employed
Education
since 2023 PhD Candidate in Digital Humanities, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern, with a dissertation on Data Visualisation as a Feminist Epistemic Practice
2023 Certificate in University Teaching, University of the Arts Bern, BFH
2017–2020 Master Design Research, University of the Arts Bern, BFH,with a thesis with a thesis on the critical potential of editorial design and related identity constructions in self-publishing
2011–2016 Bachelor Communication Design, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, HAW Hamburg, major Editorial Design with a thesis on the concept of “forgetting” [Das Lethe-Kompendium]