Designer Ony Yan has created a two-part system that can be installed in single-person households to notify neighbours in the event of their death, and was designed to "encourage a community to look after each other". More
Swedish architecture and design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has combined wool and vegetable-tanned leather to craft a cremation urn, which will naturally break down in soil once it is buried. More
Graduates from London's Royal College of Art have developed a way to form artificial reefs called Resting Reefs from cremated ashes, in a bid to provide a "meaningful funeral service" that regenerates endangered ecosystems. More
Ceramic designer John Booth has created five contemporary stoneware cremation urns decorated with joyful colours and flowers for death specialist Farewill. More
Landscape architect Fletcher Studio has created a memorial forest in California as an alternative to standard cemeteries with an entrance pavilion designed in collaboration with OpenScope Studio. More
Creative consultancy The Liminal Space has designed Life Support, a mobile-first website designed to help people deal with death using their smartphones. More
Kaan Architecten has built a pavilion to commemorate Dutch victims of the second world war, with thickset walls that strategically frame views of the trees and sky. More
Vancouver-based Shape Architecture has unveiled the charred-wood South Haven Centre for Remembrance within a municipal cemetery on the outskirts of the city of Edmonton, Canada. More
TU Delft researcher Bob Hendrikx has created Living Cocoon, a coffin made from mycelium that helps bodies decompose faster while improving the surrounding soil. More
Yarauvi is a conceptual nondenominational burial place, re-released by Miró Rivera Architects as founder Juan Miró mourned the death of his tutor, professor Michael Sorkin, from coronavirus. More
Aeternum's range of Mourning jewellery is designed to offer people who are grieving a death "something to hold in times of sorrow". More
A Colombian company has created a flatpack hospital bed made of cardboard that can be transformed into a coffin as healthcare services are overwhelmed by coronavirus victims. More
Cemetery Castel San Gimignano has been renovated by Italian architecture studio Microscape using local limestone stacked in metal baskets. More
Design studio Common Accounts imagines the funeral of the future, where liquefied bodies are used to fertilise plants and flowers, and social media accounts generate a virtual afterlife. More
American firm Olson Kundig Architects has revealed plans for an after-death facility in Seattle where human bodies will be composted and turned into soil. More
Hospitality entrepreneur Oliver Peyton has teamed up with Transit Studio to create a design-focused funeral parlour in west London, which aims to make clients more comfortable with the concept of death. More
This installation by South Korean studio ArchiWorkshop involved wrapping the interior of an abandoned house in Seoul in a layer of gauzy fabric to evoke a shamanistic death ritual. More
Royal College of Art graduate Moying Huang has designed an ecologically friendly crematorium that would use liquid cremation to eliminate emissions from traditional incineration processes. More
Central Saint Martins graduate Yeyang Liao has created Coffin chair, an item of furniture that the owner can be cremated in after they die. More
Parsons School of Design graduate Jingle Yu has designed a collection of funeral wear for the deceased, which aims to tackle the idea that "dead people should be silent and unfashionable". More
