OBJECTIVES
‘Making Space for the Other’ explore the performativity of the cemetery space
as condition for building more inclusive multicultural societies.
reconsider, discuss, design
General Objectives
European cities are becoming increasingly multicultural, but are also marked by divisions based on income, lifestyle and ethnicity, which hinder the creation of inclusive societies. By treating differences as a reality and pluralism as a resource, the project aims to:
- Rethinking the cemetery: from an unsettling architectural phenomenon to a place of memory
- Debating the topic of death today in the ‘post-mortem society’
- Exploring different ways in designing the typological characteristics of cemetery spaces in contemporary multicultural European society
- Defining guidelines for designing cemetery spaces that can help create inclusive societies
cemeteries, inclusion, transformation, death
Specific Objectives
- Understanding the significance of the spatial forms and types of cemeteries
- Rethinking the cemetery as a condition of possibility for fostering exchange and connecting differences
- Creating a digital platform to gather and share knowledge about cemeteries as inclusive and safe spaces
- Highlight the characteristics of contemporary European societies and the paradigms that describe them as post-secular, multicultural, conflictual and alienated.
- Reflecting on contemporary ideas about death
- Reflecting on representations of life and death in cemeteries
- Understanding the significance of the spatial forms and types of cemeteries
performing spaces, models, indicators, co-desig
Specific Objectives
- Understanding the conditions enabling cemeteries to support the development of a more inclusive public sphere
- Understanding the cemetery as a performative threshold
- Developing indicators to support the transformation of cemeteries into places that foster more inclusive societies. Developing parameters for analysing users’ sense of well-being or discomfort when visiting these spaces
- Co-designing inclusive spatial models by involving local communities