Dying.exhibit 2026
📅Exhibition Dates : Jan 24 – Feb 7, 2026
Exhibition | In-person
👥Opening Reception: Jan 27 | 6–9 PM
📍Location: Youngplace180 Shaw Street, Toronto
Dying is a human commonality, and one shared with the smallest element and the largest galaxy; from the micro to the macro. Each loss, no matter its scale, elicits a nuanced range of emotional and physical responses, care and remembrance. The diversity of these responses underscores the myriad ways people express grief and contemplate dying. While death is often conceived as natural, death also involves political structures, land, materials and objects that leave legacies. Death can be expected or unexpected, anticipated and under some control, but it is often an experience where agency and power is beyond reach. Even though dying is a shared experience, the situations and emotions tied to it differ across geographical locations, cultures, and moments in time.
As a team, in the seventh edition of the Dying.series, we aim to extend the previous conversation on "dying" through art and design. Dying.series 2026 comprises pieces from previous years’ submissions that embrace social and historical lenses reflecting on the interconnection of personal story and socio-political context.
What do we think about death? How do we feel about it? How do we talk about it?
Dying.series is a collective with the mission to change the public narrative around dying. Through the co-curation of group exhibits, facilitated workshops and public symposiums, we aim to empower people across generations and lifestyles to reflect and rethink their relationship with death.
As part of the DesignTO Festival, Dying.exhibit 2026 runs from January 24 to February 7, 2026, at Youngplace, Toronto, ON.
As a team, in the seventh edition of the Dying.series, we aim to extend the previous conversation on "dying" through art and design. Dying.series 2026 comprises pieces from previous years’ submissions that embrace social and historical lenses reflecting on the interconnection of personal story and socio-political context.
What do we think about death? How do we feel about it? How do we talk about it?
Dying.series is a collective with the mission to change the public narrative around dying. Through the co-curation of group exhibits, facilitated workshops and public symposiums, we aim to empower people across generations and lifestyles to reflect and rethink their relationship with death.
As part of the DesignTO Festival, Dying.exhibit 2026 runs from January 24 to February 7, 2026, at Youngplace, Toronto, ON.
Dying.dialogue 2026
📅Feb 2 and 3, 2026
👥Symposium | In-person
👥Symposium | In-person
Dying.dialogues 2026 is a two-day symposium that invites reflection and exchange on design, art, and end-of-life experience. Bringing together designers, artists, scholars, health care practitioners, and the wider public, the event creates space for dialogue around death, dying, loss, and grief, and explores the ways creative practice can shape how we engage with these universal experiences.
Through a range of presentations, discussions, and participatory formats, Dying.dialogues 2026 examines how design can support conversations about mortality, memory, and care, including speculative and exploratory works, community-based interventions, and research collaborations.
As part of the Dying.series and presented during the DesignTO Festival, Dying.dialogues 2026 continues the collective effort to foster death literacy and to reimagine our relationship with dying. The symposium invites audiences to get comfortable with the uncomfortable and to participate in open, cross-disciplinary conversations about what truly matters at the end of life.
Through a range of presentations, discussions, and participatory formats, Dying.dialogues 2026 examines how design can support conversations about mortality, memory, and care, including speculative and exploratory works, community-based interventions, and research collaborations.
As part of the Dying.series and presented during the DesignTO Festival, Dying.dialogues 2026 continues the collective effort to foster death literacy and to reimagine our relationship with dying. The symposium invites audiences to get comfortable with the uncomfortable and to participate in open, cross-disciplinary conversations about what truly matters at the end of life.
