Dying.dialogues is a mini-symposium on design for end of life running in conjunction with DesignTO, with collaborators from the Health Design Studio at OCADU and Taboo Health. Dying.dialogues invites participants to share and reflect on design practice as it relates to the process of end of life. The symposium will engage across multiple domains, 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 death, dying and design.

Call for submissions

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.

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.

Deadline: December 15, 2022
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dd2023