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DEATH AND DYING
From COVID-19, therefore creating a learning centre for coping with death. It would help people to face their fear of death and be ready to think and talk about how they would like their lives to end, so that they could live well even in those final days. The project is divided into three parts. […]
From COVID-19, therefore creating a learning centre for coping with death. It would help people to face their fear of death and be ready to think and talk about how they would like their lives to end, so that they could live well even in those final days. The project is divided into three parts.
1) promote acceptance of death
2) planned death
3) talks/activities about death
The first part of the project is to help people coping with death emotionally by designing a space that corresponds to the emotional states of a person facing death according to Dr. Elisabetn Kubler Ross's theory. For the second part of the project, there will be a space that provides an opportunity to plan their death. There will be doctors to help planning for their final treatment and also lawyers and travel stylists to provide support in planning their life journey before its ending. Finally, there will be a space for open discussions about death and for participating in death-related activities. The main aim of this space is to normalise the subject matter, so that people would feel less alienated about planning their death.
From people’s fear of death, this project is designed by the concept of “Kwan calling”. Kwan is an ancient traditional belief in Southeast Asia. It is believed that a human is composed of body and Kwan, but when faced with emotional events, Kwan may be lost from a person. So, there is a ritual for calling Kwan back, to make it stay with us forever.
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From COVID-19, therefore creating a learning centre for coping with death. It would help people to face their fear of death and be ready to think and talk about how they would like their lives to end, so that they could live well even in those final days. The project is divided into three parts. 1) promote acceptance of death 2) planned death 3) talks/activities about death The first part of the project is to help people coping with death emotionally by designing a space that corresponds to the emotional states of a person facing death according to Dr. Elisabetn Kubler Ross's theory. For the second part of the project, there will be a space that provides an opportunity to plan their death. There will be doctors to help planning for their final treatment and also lawyers and travel stylists to provide support in planning their life journey before its ending. Finally, there will be a space for open discussions about death and for participating in death-related activities. The main aim of this space is to normalise the subject matter, so that people would feel less alienated about planning their death. From people’s fear of death, this project is designed by the concept of “Kwan calling”. Kwan is an ancient traditional belief in Southeast Asia. It is believed that a human is composed of body and Kwan, but when faced with emotional events, Kwan may be lost from a person. So, there is a ritual for calling Kwan back, to make it stay with us forever.
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