Lara Kothe

Lara Kothe holds a MA in Design Research with a thesis on the critical potential of editorial design and related identity constructions in self-publishing. She participated in the research project “Wir publizieren” (2018-20), which dealt with counter-publics in Switzerland since the 1970s. Since 2017 she has been working as a researcher in the field of design history at the Institute of Design Research at the University of the Arts Bern and was involved as an associated researcher in the SNSF-Sinergia project “Swiss Graphic Design and Typography Revisited” (2016-20). As part of her research activities, she co-coordinated the project “Alternative Media Design” and investigated the role of design in alternative media strategies. Since 2020, she has been teaching in various areas, including “History of Visual Communication” and “Academic Writing” in the Visual Communication bachelor’s programme. Lara is a regular guest lecturer at the Y Institute for Transdisciplinarity and acts as mentor and examiner. She currently works at the Critical Media Lab, where she is involved in the development of the research area Critical Publishing, and as a PhD Candidate in Digital Humanities at the University of Bern in the SNSF project Sharing Knowledge in the Arts.

• 2024 Moss matters – encounters in a non-verbal language, working paper. DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.11080339
• 2023 How left is DIY? Did the right skinhead movement appropriate the aesthetic of punkzines – or is it not quite simple as that?, Eye on Design (currently peer reviewed, together with Robert Lzicar, Miriam Koban)
• 2020 Anprangern, Abwandeln, Abschaffen – Das kritische Potenzial von Editorial Design, MA-thesis
• 2019 Figuren des Widerstands, HKB-newspaper #4, 2019. Bern Academy of the Arts HKB. p.16.
• 2016 Das Lethe-Kompendium, self-publishing
• 2015 Fallstudie zur Tätigkeit des Sammelns, self-publishing

• 2023 workshop Timetravel Transverse & Timetravel: Writing Practices in Design and Artistic
  Research; Research Day Basel Academy of Art and Design; FHNW Basel, Basel
• 2023 lecture 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, Bern
• 2023 workshop “Wir publizieren” with students from Lucerne School of Art and Design HSLU, Bern Academy of the Arts HKB, Bern
• 2022 research poster exhibition, Research day Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design HGK, Basel
• 2021 lecture Kritisieren, Spekulieren, Intervenieren, Schnittstelle, University of Arts Linz, Institut für Medien / Visuelle Kommunikation, Linz (together with Lucie Kolb)
• 2020 co-organisation conference Wir diskutieren Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
• 2019 lecture Anprangern, Abwandeln, Abschaffen – Das kritische Potenzial von Editorial Design, Bern Academy of the Arts HKB, Bern
• 2017 co-organisation Guest-Lecture-Festival Dilemma, Dilemma, Progr, Bern
• 2014 panel-discussion Nicht Jetzt!, Talk HAW Hamburg, typotalks, TYPO Berlin, Berlin
• 2014 co-organisation Talk HAW Hamburg, typotalks, TYPO Berlin, Berlin

• 2023 Seiz, Rebekka; Bern Academy of the Arts HKB: Erinnerungen an Erinnerungen. Eine Spurensuche
• 2023 Gleglakou, Irini and Vidal, Anaïs; Bern Academy of the Arts HKB: Navigating the Design Industry as a Newcomer: Finding Your Space to Grow in a Competitive World
• 2022 Burckhardt, Charlotte; Bern Academy of the Arts HKB: Fake it till you make it or maybe forever
• 2022 Heinzer, Angela; Bern Academy of the Arts HKB: profiling the self
• 2022 Staupe, Selina; Bern Academy of the Arts HKB: Wissensressourcen im Wandel
• 2021 Kürz, Emma; Bern Academy of the Arts HKB: Kopieren, Assoziieren, Remixen
• 2021 Ruch, Annick; Bern Academy of the Arts HKB: Mission Alfonso