« back to Article

A story about death and architecture

Alison Killing via www.ted.com Interactive map of places related to death and dying in London – hospitals, hospices, mortuaries, cemeteries and crematoria. The map can be ‘rubbed’ away to reveal further information about these places by LUST via http://lust.nl/#projects-5789 The final room in the Death in Venice exhibition. Panels on the back wall are infographics on death-related statistics, printed as reliefs so that visitors could make souvenir newsprint-and graphite-rubbings. Tables in the foreground hold postcards with information about death-related spaces, covering 1914, 1948, 1981 and 2014. Photo: A. Molenda

The final room in the Death in Venice exhibition. Panels on the back wall are infographics on death-related statistics, printed as reliefs so that visitors could make souvenir newsprint-and graphite-rubbings. Tables in the foreground hold postcards with information about death-related spaces, covering 1914, 1948, 1981 and 2014. Photo: A. Molenda

The final room in the Death in Venice exhibition. Panels on the back wall are infographics on death-related statistics, printed as reliefs so that visitors could make souvenir newsprint-and graphite-rubbings. Tables in the foreground hold postcards with information about death-related spaces, covering 1914, 1948, 1981 and 2014. Photo: A. Molenda