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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Reading Knowledge






25 May 2024

Speaker:


Archival Conciousness

Mariana Lanari, Remco Van Bladel


Juliane Pranke & Judith Galka


Archival Consciousness



This project was initiated by artist Mariana Lanari and graphic designer Remco van Bladel to collaborate with libraries and archives in cultural institutions. They work in close collaboration with archivists to implement methods and infrastructure to turn their collections more accessible.
-> archivalconsciousness.org

Mariana Lanari


Mariana Lanari is an artist with a background in Political Sciences, she is a Ph.D. candidate at the Amsterdam School of Heritage and Memory at the University of Amsterdam. Lanari’s work combines performance art and site-specific installation with computation ontology, data science and data literacy to investigate the mediation between physical and digital collections of libraries and archives.


Remco van Bladel


Remco van Bladel runs a multidisciplinary design studio in Amsterdam where he focuses on editorial book design, web platforms, typefaces, and interactive applications. He is a typography teacher at Graphie Design Arnhem, ArtEZ. He was the co-founder of publishing house Onomatopee and online platform WdW Review.

Juliana Pranke


Juliana Pranke is Head of the Public Service Division at Germanys largest Public Library, the Central and Regional Library Berlin (ZLB). Among other things, Juliana Pranke is in charge of user-oriented and customer services and oversees projects related to the promotion of digital and media literacy. She is an experienced event manager and holds a Magistra Artium in North American Studies, Teaching German as a Second Language and Modern History (Dresden University of Technology).

Judith Galka


Judith Galka is an agile, hands-on cultural manager, librarian, and leader with a strong focus on organizational development and participatory formats for knowledge exchange. She holds Master degrees in Media Culture (Bauhaus University Weimar) and Library and Information Science (Humboldt University Berlin) and worked in the Central and Regional Library Berlin (ZLB) for 10 years, in her last role as Head of the Program Department.









Judith Galka, Tatjana Berlin, Juliana Pranke, 2023. co Vincent Mosch/ZLB
Partizipatves Angebot des ZLB Themenraums: Bibliothek findet Stadt, 2018.
Tim Leik und Julianna Pranke bei einem partizipativen Format der Next Library Satellite Conference 2018. co Mike Auerbach/ZLB
Amerika Gedenkbibliothek, ein Geschenk der USA an die Bevölkerung Berlins, kurz nach der Eröffnung 1954. Fotos: Press Unit, Photos American Embassy