Facilitating grief and fostering remembrance through architecture and landscape
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2023-04-13
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Today’s multicultural and spiritually non-religious Western
society seems to be moving away from notions of death
and the grief caused by it, requiring its concealment to
avoid disrupting everyday life. This is evident in how society
stigmatizes public expressions of grief and the apparent
lack of virtual and physical spaces outside of homes and
institutions. Society has limited space for grief, and we are
left to our own devices to navigate the complex, confusing,
and painful experience of bereavement. Considering the
important role the physical world and our bodies have
in accessing memories, this research will navigate the
expansive field of grief research and implement a crossover
to the field of architecture. Through photo documentation
and a process of making, this research suggests grief-related
spaces can be expanded outside of homes and institutions
to provide accessible therapeutic spaces that facilitate the
various needs of the bereaved and foster remembrance.
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Death, expressive arts therapy, grief, memory, remembrance, ritual, Windsor