An International Design Competition and a Symposium in the UK

A new international Death and Design competition has been launched, titled: "Future Cemetery Design Competition 2016", all the details can be found here. "Award is 5000 GBP and a part-time residency at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol. Submit your proposals by January 8th 2015. Register for an application pack before December 5th 2015".

The previous design competition I know about had some very interesting admissions and I'm very much looking forward to seeing what shall this competition bring forth. You're welcome to see some examples from the previous competition, titled "Design For Death" held in 2013, in this post of mine: When Death, Commemoration, Technology and Design Get Together. 

The Futures of Digital Death Symposium will be held in Lancaster in January 2016. All the details can be found here. 
"Futures of the End of Life: Mobilities of Loss and Commemoration in the Digital Economy: We invite contributions that bring analytical, critical, practice-based and creative insights to the use, design and development of technologies entangled at the end of life. Theoretical, empirical, practical and design or art-based research and approaches are welcome. Submission Deadline: 14th December 2015".