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Tag Archives: Design for Death
The House Awaiting Death
If you could build a house just for the dying process, what would it look like? EASTERN Design Office shows us.
“A house awaiting death,” the client said to us, “I will die in 15 years [and] it will be a house awaiting that death. When I die it won’t be sunset, it will be sunrise. When the final moment comes, … Continue reading
Project Womb
What happens when you mix philosophy, technology and end of life? You get Project Womb, a "media-driven time capsule" and contemporary casket
“After birth, the second biggest event in life is death. And, yet, across cultures, our relationship with it seems based on avoidance and denial. We asked ourselves, ‘why isn’t death treated as naturally and gracefully as birth?’” These were the … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Coffin, Contemporary funeral, Death, Design, Design for Death, Diddo, End-of-Life Planning, Lady Gaga, modern casket, Modern funeral, Project Womb
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A Community of Cremation Vessels: Cloud of Stars by Zhufei Zhufei
Chinese architecture blends technology with tradition in this columbarium
Today, social media technologies pervade our culture, setting the tone for the way we choose to experience life. So why not tailor technology to accommodate the ways we choose to experience death? Design for Death finalist Zhufei Zhufei is one … Continue reading
As Time Goes By: Chinese Designers Zijina Li and Xueping Chen’s “43 Minutes With Grandma”
Designboom’s Design for Death competition features an interactive urn for cremated remains.
Chinese designers Zijina li and Xueping Chen want to redesign the way we look at urns and cremated remains. Their design, “43 Minutes With Grandma,” was featured by Designboom’s Design for Death competition last April and makes urns much more … Continue reading
The Reversible Destiny Foundation: Architecture as an Extension of Life After Death
Japanese designer Shusaku Arakawa melds death and design in collaboration with Madeline Gins
Japanese designer Shusaku Arakawa (1936-2010) declared that he and his partner Madeline Gins would never die. The duo pushed the boundaries of design for over 40 years, melding philosophy with architecture in buildings like Bioscleave House until Arakawa’s death at … Continue reading
Life & Death Silhouetted: Designboom’s “Portrait Urn”
How Dutch designer Nadia Gonegaï fuses art and end of life
There’s an unforgettable message in the cremation urn of Dutch designer Nadia Gonegaï. Art can bring vitality to everything, including end of life. The designer’s “Portrait Urn” was featured by Designboom’s Design for Death competition (of which SevenPonds has been … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Cremation, Death, Design, Design for Death, Designboom, Dutch, end-of-life, Life, Urn
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