The Hybrid Publishing Platform is a digital publishing infrastructure developed for the Design Studies program at Burg Giebichenstein. The project explores how design can extend beyond the production of a publication toward the design of an evolving publishing system. This platform connects all twelve issues of Neuwerk Magazine, Design Studies master's theses, and future research publications within one shared environment.
The project understands hybrid publishing as more than the coexistence of print and digital media. By combining digital reading and self curatable print PDFs, and long-term academic archiving, the platform proposes a new ways of accessing, collecting, and publishing knowledge.