Death Design Data asks how art and design might rebuild the rituals of death and grief that digital society has dissolved — a question ten contemporary artists and designers answer through practice, memory, and material form.
About This Book
We live in societies saturated with data yet strangely emptied of ritual. Death, once the most elaborately marked of human transitions, has been quietly sidelined — and our digital lives have done little to restore its weight. Death Design Data takes this rupture seriously. Edited by Cecilia Casabon and Ginevra Petrozzi and published by Onomatopee, the book brings together ten artists and designers whose practices confront mortality, loss, and grief directly. It is not a morbid text but an urgent one — a memento mori for the datafied age — asking what new funeral practices, rituals, and design responses might emerge when the old frameworks no longer hold.
Key Features
- 144 pages of essays, artist contributions, and design research spanning death, grief, and digital ritual
- Edited by Cecilia Casabon and Ginevra Petrozzi
- Contributions from ten contemporary artists and designers exploring creative practices in relation to death and loss
- Published by Onomatopee, 2024
What You'll Discover
- How the absence of ritual in rationalist, technology-driven societies has reshaped — and complicated — the experience of grief
- The ways design and art practice can generate new forms of mourning and memorialisation where inherited traditions have broken down
- How digital life creates a parallel plane for death — raising questions about memory, data, and the persistence of identity after death
- How the Latin concept of memento mori functions not as resignation but as a framework for re-engaging with the ephemeral nature of life
About the Author
Cecilia Casabon is the lead editor of this volume. The book is co-edited with Ginevra Petrozzi. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144
- Dimensions: 21 x 15 x 1 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789493382121
- Publisher: Onomatopee
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Designers, artists, and researchers working at the intersection of social ritual, digital culture, and material practice — as well as anyone thinking seriously about how contemporary life accounts for death.