Memento Mori

MOTH is a research project about the Design of Death, respecting traditional and conventional associations with death and mourning, along with contemporary attitudes and anxieties. How design might instigate and support this process, encouraging us to talk about death with greater confidence and understanding.

We are interested in the aesthetics of death, the educational implications of this and the design potential for the context it might serve.

Questioning in this collaborative project the ideology of ‘Deathists’ and ‘Immortalists’. How we might contemplate our own future as being either finite or immortal. The notion that we either simply cease to be or that we can ‘live forever’ through a spiritual, genetic or cultural legacy.