Death & Design

A project exploring the use of design to create space for meaningful conversations about death, dying and life.

  • About
  • Blog
  • Contact
salles1.jpg

Salle des Departs

January 28, 2013 by Nick Jehlen in Architecture, Place

The doctors at the Hopital Raymond Poincare in Garches, France, decided that a family's last goodbye with a loved one shouldn't take place in a cold, impersonal room, so they commissioned Italian artist Ettore Spalletti, British sound artist Robin Rimbaud (known as Scanner), and American composer David Lang to create a morgue that feels like no other. 

"We try to treat the dead as we would treat the sick, with the same level of medical care."
— chief pathologist Professor Michel Durigon

"I was adament ... that I felt like this music should last a certain amount of time ... and then it should be over. And then, if you decide that you would like to stay there longer,  that's between you and the silence. Here's the contribution I can make, and when I've made that contribution, I should get out."
— Composer David Lang on RadioLab

Listen:

!
  • The Last Goodbye BBC Radio 4

January 28, 2013 /Nick Jehlen
Architecture, Place
  • Newer
  • Older

Death & Design is a project of The Action Mill

action-mill-logo.png