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Dead space: the changing discourse of death: how to design a contemporary and enduring funeral practice

Xin Wang , Rhode Island School of Design Follow

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Spring 6-1-2021

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Master of Architecture (MArch)

Architecture

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Second advisor.

Ijlal Muzaffar

My thesis seeks to design my grandfather’s cemetery to regain a piece of my personal memory. It also seeks to situate this issue in the contemporary context of the pandemic, which helped inspire my topic. I started my thesis in a very turbulent year. I found myself missing family members far away on the other side of the earth.

How are they doing now?

I suddenly missed my Grandfather’s village, which I had only visited once a year prior to the great pandemic. My Grandfather passed away when I was very young. I get along well with my Grandmother, but I rarely hear the story of my Grandfather from my Grandmother, and his photos have always hung on the wall of the living room, which conspicuously reminds me of his look. Maybe my Grandmother misses him the same way. When I went back, that photo was no longer there.

Does that mean this memory over?

I didn't remember my Grandfather’s Cemetery because I only participated in his funeral ceremony. The news broadcasts that public cemetery prices are getting higher and higher. Can the pain of losing a loved one be measured by money? No one really mentioned this pain. I started to reflect and decided I want to tell this story by rebuilding my Grandfather's cemetery.

View exhibition online: Xin Wang, Death Space

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Wang, Xin, "Dead space: the changing discourse of death: how to design a contemporary and enduring funeral practice" (2021). Masters Theses . 662. https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/662

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Miller, J. Scott. "A tearful alleluia the funeral as lament and witness to the resurrection /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Tawiah, Augustine. "Critical contextualization in Ghana the case of Akan funeral rites and ceremonies /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p018-0106.

Ramanyimi, Nyadzani Florence. "Tsenguluso ya mbulungo ya Tshevenda." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2317.

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Pereira, Thais Cristina. "Do sagrado ao profano: transformações fúnebres na cidade de São Paulo - 1858 -1890." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21587.

Heilskov, Mads Vedel. "The commemoration of the lay elite in the late medieval Danish realm, c. 1340-1536 : rituals, community and social order." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2018. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=239397.

Mathew, Philip. "A comparative study of funeral rites in the Byzantine and West Syrian traditions." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p015-0460.

Maudsley, Catherine Ruth. "Ritual meanings of "water and land" : a study of Buddhist cermonial paintngs [sic] of the Song and Yuan dynasties /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19882166.

Jackson, Jonathan Carl. "Reforming the dead the intersection of socialist merit and agnatic descent in a Chinese funeral home /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1610650261&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

Johanson, Christopher John. "Spectacle in the Forum visualizing the Roman aristocratic funeral of the middle Republic /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1790313621&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

Falck, Martin von. "Textgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu Götterreden und verwandten Texten auf ägyptischen Särgen und Sarkophagen von der 3. Zwischenzeit bis zur Ptolemäerzeit." [S.l. : s.n.], 2001. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=971279888.

Evison, Gillian Anne. "Indian death rituals : the enactment of ambivalence." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:85f22493-a5cf-4611-aa49-a7cf179993ad.

Suriano, Matthew James. "The formulaic epilogue for a king in the Book of Kings in the light of royal funerary rites in ancient Israel and the Levant." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1679385691&sid=32&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

Schafer, Cyril Timo, and n/a. "Post-mortem personalisation : an ethnographic study of funeral directors in New Zealand." University of Otago. Department of Anthropoplogy, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070427.115528.

Aronson, Meredith Alexandra. "Technological change: West Mexican mortuary ceramics." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186595.

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Donnison, Alexandra. "The appropriation of death in classical Athens : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Classics /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1153.

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Ching, Choi-king Katie. "Culture and land use : a study of burial policy in Hong Kong /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1232324X.

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Powell, Debra. ""It was hard to die frae hame" death, grief and mourning among Scottish migrants to New Zealand, 1840-1890 /." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2484.

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Thornton, Michael Edward Ian. "Meaning to life in death : a theological reflection on changing rites of passage at death in a late modern context whilst exploring the possibility of bringing hope and meaning in the face of death through Christian faith." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683016.

Houde, Audrey. "Le travail de production et de reconstruction des mises en scène rituelles dans le contexte de la ritualité funéraire /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Montréal : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Université de Montréal, 2005. http://theses.uqac.ca.

Manenzhe, Jacob. "The politicisation of Funerals in South Africa during the 20th century (1900 – 1994)." Diss., Pretoria : [s. n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05282008-143310/.

Kieser, Annette. "Landadel - Emigranten - Emporkömmlinge : Familienfriedhöfe des 3.-6. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. in Südchina /." Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40122721f.

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Stewart, David James. "'Rocks and storms I'll fear no more': Anglo-American maritime memorialization, 1700-1940." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/502.

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Magoola, Robert Joshua. "A cultural and biblical analysis of funeral practice among the Basoga of Uganda a critical and pastoral guide for pastors /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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