Submission: September 1, 2013
Registration: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: 1st Prize € 25.000 2nd Prize € 10.000 3rd Prize € 5.000
Type: Open competition for architects and architecture students
Ideas competition Design deathcare trying to challenge and change perceptions about the ways in which families honor, remember and celebrate the lives of their loved ones.
In its second call for entry, Design for Death seeks architects, designers and creative talents worldwide to push the boundaries of deathcare with fresh perspectives of how we interact with physical spaces and architecture in bereavement and remembrances.
The intersection of life and death takes place when the living gaze upon what used to be and face the reality of mortality. From the inner space of contemplation to the outward rituals of death and bereavement, these junctions of life and death occur in funeral homes, columbarium, crematorium, cemetery, memorials and places of remembrances. While these places hold intensely personal and private moments, they also represent collective experiences of departure and remembrance. The intricate spatial links are meshed with the individuals’, societal and cultural emotions, beliefs and customs.
Using design and architecture to explore the relationship between physical spaces and death or bereavement, the competition puts forth the challenge to:
- Reconstruct the spatial experience between death and bereavement
- Redefine the use of space for bereavement and remembrance and
- Reimagine how deathcare can be transformed to mediate and improve the experience of bereavement, goodbyes and remembrance