D.d 2023: Dying.dialogues

Dying.dialogues invites participants to share and reflect on design practice as it relates to end of life and grief - whether these be speculative exploratory works, community engagements, or interventions for specific groups or circumstances. The symposium will enable dialogue across multiple stakeholders, including - designers, artists, scholars, health care practitioners and the wider public. These dialogues are an opportunity to engage with diverse perspectives and participate in open conversations about fragility, death, dying, loss, grief, and design.

Submission Guidelines

We welcome submissions for peer review in the form of a 500 word abstract and supporting documentation/images.

This year we are inviting contributions on fragility, death, dying, loss, and grief, under the following themes:

• Design practice: communication materials, products, services, spaces for fragility, death, dying, loss, and grief
• Community/patient focused practice and research: palliative care, MAID, hospice, grief, supportive and non-pharmacological care
• Design research: knowledge creation, knowledge mobilisation, public engagement, public art on fragility, death, dying, loss, grief
• Designing for loss and grief more broadly: e.g. climate change, Black Lives Matter, mass acts of violence, COVID-19

We particularly invite works within these themes that address issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Formats

We are open to multiple formats, examples include: talks, panels, workshops, posters, immersive arts and music, installations/interactive works.

Date and Location

The tentative date for the symposium is Friday, January 27, 2023 from 9am-5:30pm (with flexible hybrid format). The symposium will be held in downtown Toronto, Canada, and also online.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to: healthdesignstudio@gmail.com or info.dying@gmail.com