Further Reading is an interdisciplinary research format of the Design Department at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Advancing digitalization and new media formats are fundamentally changing reading habits, knowledge transfer and creative methods. The annual symposium series explores the future of reading and the design of texts across digital, analogue, immersive, and interactive environments. It is complemented by specialized courses, including seminars and workshops. Further Reading creates spaces for critical reflection and shaping the future of reading.

Further Reading 2025:
Designing for Readability
Further Reading 2025: Exhibition Language and Text as Means of Inclusion
Further Reading 2025:
Workshop Post-binary Typography for a debinarised future

Further Reading 2024:
Reading Knowledge
Further Reading 2024:
Workshop The Library. The Unknown Place.

Symposium 02: Digital typography for three-
Further Reading 2023:
Digital typography in three-dimensional spaces

Symposium 02: Digital typography for three-
Further Reading 2022:
Perspectives on designing texts


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We thank the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and the Design Department for their financial support. Many thanks to all the other helping hands who contributed behind the scenes and were not mentioned by name.

Concept & idea:
Vertr.-Prof. Constanze Hein, Prof. Christina Poth, Prof. Susanne Stahl

Scientific coordination & organization:
Prof. Christina Poth, Prof. Susanne Stahl

Students 2025:
Maria Döring, Mara Wackenroder

Students 2024:
Tilmann Finner, Johann Jacoby, Mark van Leeuwen


Students 2023:
Maria Döring, Tilmann Finner, Mara Wackenroder


Students 2022:
Maria Döring, Marina Ortega Velaz




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Perspectives
on designing texts




21 October 2022

Speaker:


James Langdon


Katharina Nejdl & Chris Möller






James Langdon


 James Langdon is an independent graphic designer and writer and Professor for Communication Design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Germany. Since 2004, he has worked closely with many artists on graphic design for publication and exhibition. From 2008 to 2018, he was a founding director of the artist-run space Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK. He is presently working on a biography of English designer Norman Potter (1923–1995) as a teacher. twitter: @jalangdon

Katharina Nejdl


 Katharina Nejdl, designer, founder of www.andshymagazine.com. As a graphic designer and developer, Katharina Nejdl is interested in using digital technologies—such as web, AR and AI—as graphic tools. She studied at Sandberg Institut, UdK Berlin and ZHdK. At the moment, she is teaching at Burg Halle. In 2019, together with Chris Möller, Victor Kümel and Sophia Rohwetter, she founded ­ magazine, a digital literature magazine exploring new ways of digital reading, writing and publishing.

Chris Möller



Chris Möller studied Philosophy, German and Applied Literature in Kassel and Berlin. Since 2013, she has worked as a freelance event organiser, curator and moderator with Kabeljau & Dorsch, and ­ magazine, among others. In 2020, she was a jury member for the German Book Prize. She is currently researching contemporary literary education. In winter 2022, the podcast series Zwischen on this topic will be published.



















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