DesignXDeathXCulture Moth Exhibition

Moth were Co_Organisers of Death x Design x Culture: Radical Re-imaginings For The End Of Life: Conference September 2024. I As part of that conference Moth exhibited an archive of projects from2014 to 2025 [Moth Monograph], alongside an exhibition for Symbols of Death: [The Emotionalisation of Graphic Symbols]. and a range of designed products and discursive atrefacts.

This practice-led research project investigates the role of graphic design at the intersections of death studies (thanatology) and graphic design.

Partnerships and Funding: The project was conducted in collaboration with Dr Robyn Cook SL at Falmouth University, in partnership with the Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan (USA), the Glasgow End of Life Studies Group, University of Glasgow (UK), and Death and Culture Network, University of York (UK).

How can Graphic Design help us to navigate how we approach, death, dying and grief.
To communicate empathy and loss in our social relationships. Giving us courage to see death as being something we can learn from rather than fear. To not only change the way we die but can also help us to think about how we want to live.

The body of work covers a range of projects over 13 years: [pedagogic, discursive, speculative, collaborative]....

The conference aim was to provide a discursive space for ‘traditional’ as well as practice-based and practice-led research to critically reflect on the role of design as it relates to death, dying, and disposal at individual, community, and broader cultural levels, and to suggest radical alternatives for the future. With a focus on interdisciplinarity, the conference aimed to support knowledge exchange between researchers within the social sciences, the humanities, and design. Design is positioned as an expanded field inviting contributions from subject areas including, but not limited to: graphic design; multidisciplinary design; architecture; digital design; fashion design; and product design. A multi-modal approach to expand the conventions of a conference format, incorporating experience design; exhibitions and pedagogic interventions; university-industry knowledge transfer; and opportunities for traditional academic papers.

• https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/news/death-x-...
• https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/dea...
• https://thedeathstudiespodcast.com/death...