Nickpour, F 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4207-6807
(2019)
Design Meets Death. A case of critical discourse and strategic contributions.
Design Journal, 22 (Supple).
pp. 2275-2280.
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Abstract
End-of-life is a profound and inevitable part of life, and thus, human condition. It raises significant and critical questions around the meaning, purpose, fairness and quality of life, on multiple individual, inter-personal, and societal levels. Design for end-of-life is an emerging area, gaining visibility and interdisciplinary interest. Current contributions around design and end-of-life are however, limited and disjointed, lacking in critical knowledge base and strategic vision. While valuable, such rush into interventional, operational and incremental contributions, is archetypal of design’s ‘problem-solving’ approach, and would risk obscuring the broader and potentially significant theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions between design and end-of-life. This paper argues the case for adopting a ‘problem framing’, transdisciplinary, systemic approach to this fascinating emerging field. By initiating, for the first time, a theoretically and empirically informed critical discourse between the two fields of design and end-of-life, critical questions, strategic opportunities, and significant contributions between the two fields could be identified and outlined.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Design, Death, Dying, Palliative and end-of-life care, Critical discourse |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jun 2019 08:09 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 00:40 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14606925.2019.1595026 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3045893 |
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