FEATURED
Our solo exhibition 'DeathLAB: Democratizing Death' at the SANAA-designed 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, in Kanazawa, Japan included DeathLAB’s Manifesto and Mission together with several design proposals demonstrating the power of design to integrate spaces of contemplation into civic life...
Onsite: Karla Rothstein presents a prototype of Constellation Park, a public infrastructure coupling science and the civic-sacred. This new urban cemetery, a collaborative design by GSAPP DeathLAB and LATENT Productions, transforms our biomass into an elegant constellation of light...
The colloquium was an event designed to present and discuss feasible solutions to the scarcity of cemetery space, resource consumption, changes in the role of faith, and the need for memorialization among 21st century urban residents...
ADDITIONAL EVENTS
DDC Talks | DEATH AND THE CITY - DESIGNING THE NEW CIVIC-SACRED
New York, NY | Department of Design and Construction
AUGUST 2017
Asian Art Museum | REVIVING THE ENVIRONMENT - WAYS TO HONOR THE DEAD AND LIVING
San Francisco, CA | Samsung Hall
APRIL 2017
DeathLAB: DESIGNING THE CIVIC SACRED
Pasajes Arquitectura: desigño y innovación, No. 141
NOVEMBER 2016
7th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS: IMAGENS DA MORTE (IMAGES OF DEATH)
Sao Paolo, Brazil | University of Sao Paolo
JULY 2016
REMEMBERING THE FUTURE: NEW CEMETERIES AND THE PARADOX OF PLANNING FOR HETEROTOPIC SPACE
Bristol, England | University of the West of England
SEPTEMBER 2016
FUTURE CEMETERY DESIGN COMPETITION: SYLVAN CONSTELLATION - WINNER
Bristol, England | University of Bath's Centre for Death and Society, Arnos Vale Cemetery
FEBRUARY 2016
HERITAGE OF DEATH: LANDSCAPES, SENTIMENT AND PRACTICE
Stockholm, Sweden | Stockholm University, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies
SEPTEMBER 2015
MONUMENTAL MASONRY COMPETITION: CONSTELLATION PARK - 3RD PLACE
London, England | Sir Soane's Museum and Bompass & Paar
NOVEMBER 2014
STUDIO X: EXTRAORDINARY COEXISTENCE / CAIRO'S CITY OF THE DEAD
Amman, Jordan | Columbia Global Centers
OCTOBER 2013