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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)      

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  





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]