The conference seeks to open discursive space for ‘traditional’ as well as practice-based and practice-led research to critically reflect on the role of design as it relates to death, dying, and disposal at individual, community, and broader cultural levels, and to suggest radical alternatives for the future.
With a focus on interdisciplinarity, the conference aims to support knowledge exchange between researchers within the social sciences, the humanities, and design. Design is positioned as an expanded field inviting contributions from subject areas including, but not limited to: graphic design; multidisciplinary design; architecture; digital design; fashion design; and product design.
A multi-modal approach will stretch the conventions of a conference format, incorporating experience design; exhibitions and pedagogic interventions; university-industry knowledge transfer; and opportunities for traditional academic papers.
Working between critical design, amusement park engineering, performative architecture, choreography, kinetic art and sci-fi, he has been developing various critical tools of negotiating gravity: from a killer roller coaster to an artificial asteroid made up entirely of human bodies. In these projects he coins the term of gravitational aesthetics, an artistic approach exploiting the means of manipulating gravity to create experiences that push the body and imagination to its extremes.
www.julijonasurbonas.lt
Currently Laura is Head of Program & Research (chief curator).
www.totzover.nl
Submit a proposal for:
1.
Radical, experimental and/or experiential laboratories that engage with (test, challenge, subvert, develop, speculate on,…) the conference themes. These might include, for example, workshops, excursions, rituals, screenings, etc.
2.
These should include, where possible, demonstrations of design artefacts and/or interdisciplinary considerations that engage explicitly with the conference themes.
3.
Traditional academic papers that engage explicitly with the conference themes.
Radically reimagining death and dying -
Interdisciplinarity, death and dying -
Death, design and discursivity -
Ethics and designing for death -
Death, design and education -
Design and afterlives -
New technologies, death and design
Abstracts of between 250-300 words and a short biography should be sent to robyn.cook@falmouth.ac.uk by 17 May 2024. Please state whether the submission is intended as a 1. Laboratory / 2. Presentation / 3. Academic Paper.
Publishing
DEATHxDESIGNxCULTURE are pleased to announce a partnership with .able journal to develop selected conference papers into visual essays for peer-review and publication.
With its shared focus on practice-based research at the intersections of art, design, and the sciences, the image-based journal is an ideal publishing partner for the multi-modal ambitions of the conference. Initiated by La Chaire Arts & Sciences (2017-2023) of the École Polytechnique, the École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL, and the Fondation Daniel and Nina Carasso, .able is open-access, peer-reviewed, and supported by some thirty international academic partners.
Working with the Department of Graphic Design at Falmouth, selected conference papers will be developed into image-based contributions based on one of .able journal’s five visual essay formats for submission and review post-conference.
With its shared focus on practice-based research at the intersections of art, design, and the sciences, the image-based journal is an ideal publishing partner for the multi-modal ambitions of the conference. Initiated by La Chaire Arts & Sciences (2017-2023) of the École Polytechnique, the École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL, and the Fondation Daniel and Nina Carasso, .able is open-access, peer-reviewed, and supported by some thirty international academic partners.
Working with the Department of Graphic Design at Falmouth, selected conference papers will be developed into image-based contributions based on one of .able journal’s five visual essay formats for submission and review post-conference.