Neri Oxman's new death masks contain pigment-producing microorganisms
Neri Oxman and her Mediated Matter Group at MIT have expanded their collection of 3D-printed death masks with designs that cultivate new life after death. More
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Gabled tombs sit within serene courtyards at Italian cemetery
Mirco Simonato Architetto has added white-walled courtyards and simple gabled tombs to a cemetery in Megliadino San Vitale, northern Italy. More
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Studio Nienke Hoogvliet designs cremation urn using plastic derived from wastewater
Studio Nienke Hoogvliet has harnessed a method of transforming wastewater into bioplastic, and used it to create a sustainable cremation urn. More
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Frank Kolkman creates death simulation machine using virtual reality
To tackle "death anxiety" among terminally ill hospital patients, designer Frank Kolkman has created a device that simulates a near-death experience using virtual reality. More
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Waugh Thistleton completes cemetery buildings with rammed-earth walls
Waugh Thistleton has added a pair of new prayer halls to a Jewish cemetery in the English county of Hertfordshire, which feature rammed-earth walls constructed using soil taken from the site. More
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Fujita Keisuke uses suicide tweets to explore the effects of digital communication
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Fujita Keisuke has made an installation that uses real-time tweets from people expressing suicidal thoughts to activate a motor-powered needle that scratches away at a monolithic block of carbon. More
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Deep-green tiles and geometric entrances create distinctive toilets for Portuguese graveyard
Portuguese architecture studio M2 Senos has completed a new public toilet for a cemetery in the country's Ílhavo municipality, taking the graveyard's verdant grounds and marble headstones as cues for the design. More
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Trio of broken arches house ossuaries in northern Italian cemetery
CN10 Architetti has built a trio of white concrete and marble funerary arches with space to host ossuaries and cinerary urns for a cemetery in the northern Italian city of Bergamo. More
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Aleksander Skworz' Urn for Living can be used as a fruit bowl before you die
An Academy of Fine Arts Poznań graduate has designed a cremation urn that can be purchased before your death and used as homeware, serving as a reminder to live life to the full. More
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Lisa Merk's tactile mini urns give mourners one-on-one time to say goodbye
Lund University student Lisa Merk has designed a series of small urns that can be held during funeral ceremonies to reduce the anxieties of bereavement. More
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"However brutal, the Yolocaust website gave meaning to Berlin's Holocaust memorial"
By juxtaposing selfies taken by visitors to Peter Eisenman's Holocaust memorial with archive photos from concentration camps, artist Shahak Shapira has revealed why design that shames is important, says Owen Hatherley in his latest Opinion column. More
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Neri Oxman's Lazarus death masks visualise the wearer's last breath
Neri Oxman and the MIT Mediated Matter group have unveiled their latest collection of 3D-printed death masks, designed to contain the wearer's last breath. More
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Neri Oxman creates 3D-printed versions of ancient death masks
Neri Oxman and her Mediated Matter group at MIT Media Lab have created a series of colourful death masks that explore the transition between life and death. More
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"Something is rotten when my trainers are more customised than my funeral"
Death urgently needs a redesign, says Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More
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Eight coffins and urns you would want to be seen dead in
It's Halloween, a time when many cultures honour the dead. To mark the occasion, we take a tour through some of the most interesting final resting places dreamed up by designers, including a biodegradable urn that turns a deceased loved one into a tree and colourful zip-up coffins designed to make death less depressing. More
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Seven shocking sights at the Istanbul Design Biennial 2016
The evolution of the human body is one of the major topics of this year's Istanbul Design Biennial, with exhibits ranging from a cyborg skeleton to a brain in a book. Dezeen editor Amy Frearson has selected seven of the most provocative examples. More
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Minimalist morgue by Barceló Balanzó Arquitectes and Plasencia Arquitectura features textured concrete walls
Corduroy-textured walls enclose planted courtyards at this funeral home in Spain's Catalonia region by Barcelona-based practices Barceló Balanzó Arquitectes and Plasencia Arquitectura. More
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Norway moves to scrap plans for controversial Utøya memorial
The Norwegian government has offered to abandon plans for a memorial to the 77 people murdered during the terrorist attacks of 22 July 2011, after fierce opposition by local residents. More
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Sam Jacob erects Adolf Loos-designed mausoleum in Highgate Cemetery
A tomb that was designed but never realised by modernist architect Adolf Loos has been built by British architect Sam Jacob in a historic London cemetery. More
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OMA's monumental concrete wells host mourners at New York's Park Avenue Armory
These cylindrical towers were designed by OMA's New York office to echo sounds made by mourners during a performance by artist Taryn Simon (+ slideshow). More