D&DD1: Death and Dying Discussions |
Website | https://designto.org/2019-designto-festival/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ddd1 |
Abstract registration deadline | December 21, 2018 |
Submission deadline | December 21, 2018 |
Death and Dying Discussions - January 24th-25th, 2019, Toronto, Canada
Death and Dying Discussions is a mini-symposium on design for end of life running in conjunction with DesignTO (Toronto Design Offsite Festival, January 18-27) and Health Design Studio at OCADU. The symposium will provide an opportunity to share experiences of the changing landscape of end of life and open dialogue about the multiplicity of ways in which design collaborations might push the boundaries of design to engage with end of life issues.
The mini-symposium seeks to be a catalyst, to open-up discussion and expressivity around the role of design and the still relative dominance of the medical perspective in approaches to dying and death. These discussions will connect across interrelated spheres - the academy, medicine, the broader public, and the art and design community.
The mini-symposium will start with a keynote by Ivor Williams (Helix Centre) on the evening of Thursday, January 24th followed by a day of discussions through panel, poster/video/demo session, invited and peer reviewed talks on Friday, January 25th.
Invited Speakers
- Ivor Williams, Helix Centre
- Nick Jehlen, Common Practice
Submission Guidelines
We invite submissions for peer review in the form of a 500 word abstract for either a short talk and/or poster/video/demo from a broad range of design researchers, practitioners, and teams working on end of life issues.
Submissions will undergo a period of blind peer review and approx 10 individual talks will be selected for presentation and a maximum of 16 posters.
Deadline for submission is December 7th at 11.59 pm. Results will be available by December 21st.
Committees
Organizing committee
- Dr Kate Sellen, OCADU
- Karen Oikonen, The Moment
- Laura Halleran, OCADU
Publication
We are making a proposal for a special issue to the journal Design for Health (Taylor and Francis).
Venue
The conference will be held at OCADU in Toronto.
Contact
Laura Halleran laurahalleran@gmail.com