Designing for Readability
25 April 2025
3:30pm – 7pm
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Design Department,
Building D, Studio 003
Speaker:
Camille CircludeBye Bye Binary
Jolanta Paliszewska
David Liebermann
David Liebermann & Jana Reddemann
Language and design decisions shape accessibility, inclusion and the way we engage with text. Typography influences not only how we read but also who feels addressed in written language. How can typography and language challenge biases and expand readability for diverse audiences? How can type systems be rethought to embrace non-binary forms of expression? What visual strategies enhance both clarity and diversity? Which conventions should be rethought to create a future where typography is both functional and culturally resonant? The symposium “Designing for Readability” examines how inclusive design can create new possibilities for representation and participation.
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Further Reading is organised by the Design Department at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. This annual symposium explores the future of reading and designing texts.
Accessibility: The venue is barrier-free and easily accessible by wheelchair. The talks and the exhibition will take place on the ground floor of building D.
Language: The conference will be held in German and sometimes in English. The talks will be translated into German sign language.
If you need assistance before or during the conference, please let us know: contact@furtherreading.de
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Camille Circlude
Camille Circlude, author of La typographie post-binaire, is a typo-graphic designer and researcher. They holds a Master's degree in Gender Studies, is an active member of the Bye Bye Binary collective and works as a graphic designer based in Brussels. They also teaches at the erg (École de recherche graphique, Brussels). Camille Circlude is currently working on a research project entitled Typographie post-binaire: recherche sur les usages, les appropriations et la pollinisation des fontes, funded by the Fonds de la Recherche en Art.
Paris, éditions B42, collection «Façons», 2023 © B42
Based on a Monique Wittig’s text.
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Form follows Norm
David Liebermann
The talk attempts to critically examine various aspects of accessibility. Particularly in web design, there is a common misconception that standardization, personalization, and simply adhering to conventions automatically result in accessibility. But what else can accessibility mean on the web, beyond standardized technical structures? Have we fully discovered all possibilities, and should experimentation be left to the arts? What role remains for web design if AI applications already present content more effectively than websites can? Doesn't this development risk losing a significant part of communication? How can we actively ensure the web remains an accessible place?
These questions are central to the talk, inviting attendees to explore diverse perspectives on web accessibility.
David Liebermann and Jana Reddemann work as designers in the field of graphic and web design. Digital technologies, the zeitgeist and the reflection of conventions play a major role in their practice. Their focus is on experimental design approaches that address cultural and socio-political issues.
Together they have realized projects for clients and partners from culture and education. They have been professors of communication design / intermedia design at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle since 2023. @davidliebermann @janareddemann
(New Society for Visual Art)
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Language, Design
and Accessibility
Jolanta Paliszewska
The talk deals with the central role of language and design in teaching. How can inclusive and non-discriminatory language break down barriers and broaden understanding for diverse target groups? How can students from different backgrounds be reached and supported equally? I will answer these questions with examples from my own teaching practice.
Jolanta Paliszewska is a Deaf designer, design researcher and accessibility consultant. She works at the intersection of accessibility, inclusion and empowerment design. As a research assistant and lecturer, including at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, she develops inclusive design solutions and advocates for accessible design. A central component of her work is raising awareness of barriers in design. She offers seminars, workshops and lectures to raise awareness of inclusive design and communicate practical solutions. She uses self-developed tools that open up new perspectives on problems and solutions.
by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Meier & Jolanta Paliszewska
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Post-binary Typography for a debinarised future
Workshop
24 April
202510am – 6pmUniversity of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Design Department,
Building D, LW Graphic Lab
24 April 2025
Building D, LW Graphic Lab
How can we move beyond the gender binary characteristic of the our language? Camille Circlude details the emergence of inclusive, non-binary and post-binary typography, which, in the wave of inclusive writing, seeks to fight the gendered nature of French language. The field of typographic design now offers an unprecedented space for writing to embrace the vast prism of gender, beyond binarity. Typography is seen as an emancipating technology that enables us to resist hegemony and embrace the hybridity of forms. Today, it offers the possibility of materialising queer, non-binary, genderfluid, agender and genderfuck existences in the shared and symbolic spaces of language and writing. Exploring the possibilities of a post-binary future, the workshop will look at the questions and issues raised by these new typographic forms in a corpus of texts brought together in a publication printed in Riso, the challenges of which lie in their translation.
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Language and
Text as Means of
Inclusion
Exhibition
25 April
– 9 May 2025
Opening 24 April,
6pm
Closed on Sunday
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Design Department
Building D, Foyer
25 April – 9 May 2025
Opening 24 April,
6pm
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Design Department
Building D, Foyer
Language has a profound effect on our thinking, our perception and our interactions. It is not only a way of communication, but also a powerful tool that can promote social inclusion or reinforce exclusion. Language has the power to bring people together and create a community in which all members feel heard and understood. To what extent do e.g. youth language, simple language, gender-inclusive language and educational language, influence our communication, our identity and our social structures? What impact do different forms of language have on our social interaction? How can we as designers make this awareness visible and encourage discussion and reflection? How can we use design to make texts accessible or inaccessible? How can we influence legibility?
In the seminar Further Reading – Language and Text as Means of Inclusion, students examine various areas of inclusion and exclusion of spoken and written language.
Winter semester 2024/25,
Design Department
Supervision: Prof. Christina Poth &
Prof. Susanne Stahl
Jennifer Schnurr
Jennifer Schnurr
Jennifer Schnurr
Jennifer Schnurr
Speaker:
Archival Consiousness Mariana Lanari & Remco van Bladel
Judith Galka &Juliana Pranke
Libraries have been providing knowledge for centuries. In times of digital reading, they face the challenge of making printed material accessible in digital form. The symposium Further Reading 2024 takes a look at proven and innovative strategies for digitising knowledge as well as the user behaviour of readers. How is the digital revolution changing the cultural technique of reading? What expectations do we have of access to information? What future do libraries have?
Digital typography
for three-dimensional
spaces
Speaker:
MaximageDavid Keshavjee
Field.ioPaul Brenner & Margot Hofmans
Ricardo MeyerGraphic AR Lab
Typography nowadays creates reading spaces beyond two-dimensional layers. The spatial arrangement not only creates depth, but offers new possibilities for connecting and structuring textual content. This Further Reading event explores how we can design texts for three-dimensional spaces. How does this change the perception of our daily environment ? How do we benefit from those new possibilities of reading and what are the limits ? What is the role of the reader or the designer ?
Speaker:
James LangdonKatharina Nejdl & Chris Möller
Today’s reading habits have changed. We navigate between text fragments, augmented bits and pieces and editable layers. New forms of reading have made their appearance. Reading content is available at any time and place through several channels and on multiple devices. What does this transformation mean for us designers? How does this fit with traditional ways of designing text? What can we learn from our reading habits nowadays? What are tomorrow’s challenges and perspectives on designing texts for reading?
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