Fiorenza GambaLancaster House Hotel Conference Suites
21st January 2016
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Informal Introductions, Coffee & Registration |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Introduction |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Mapping grief and absence-presence: intersections of material and virtual spaces, continuing bonds and practices of mourning and remembrance
Avril Maddrell, University of the West of England |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Design for meaningful activities that empower the bereaved
Wan Jou (Lavender) She, Eindhoven University of Technology WanJouShe Slides |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Reinventing rituals around death in a digital age
Linda Woodhead, Lancaster University |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Images of Life and Death
Petri Kaverma, University of Arts Helsinki |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | Lunch & Posters/Exhibition |
| 13:15 – 13:45 | Future Dead: Designing Disposal
Jakob Borrits Sabra, Centre for Death and Society, Bath University & Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University JakobSabra Slides |
| 13:45 – 14:15 | “Now my Soul is free” – The Death of the Other in Digital Games
Miriam Schreiter, Chemnitz University of Technology |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | Breakup and Loss: An Embodiment Approach to the Exploration of Physical and Digital Disposal Practices
Corina Sas, Lancaster University |
| 14:45 – 15:15 | Coffee/Posters/Exhibition |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | PRESS DELETE! : The Future of Death
Paul Coulton and Selina Ellis-Gray, Lancaster |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Life, Death, and Design in Transition: Looking for change in mainstream practices and products
Bruce M. Hanington, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | When Ethics Underestimates its Subjects: What to do when Designing with ‘Vulnerable’ Others
Stacey Pitsillides, Goldsmiths/University of Greenwich |
| 16:45 – 17:30 | Mapping Insights, Ideas and Research Questions |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
22nd January 2016
| 09:00 – 09:45 | How to design a digital memorial
Wendy Moncur, Dundee |
| 09:45 – 10:15 | Stowing to Death: The Germinative Power of the Archive
Alberto Frigo, Södertörn University (Skype presentation) |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Grieving Online: Metaphors Used by Bereaved Family Carers on a Cancer Online Forum
Elena Semino, Lancaster University ElenaSemino Slides |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Dearly Departed: Communicating With the Dead in the Digital Age
Jennifer M. Huberman, University of Missouri |
| 11:45 – 12:45 | #justiceforlb: The multiple afterlives of Connor Sparrowhawk
A panel discussion with George Julian, Chris Hatton, Hannah Morgan and Imogen Tyler, Lancaster University |
| 12:45 – 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 – 14:15 | Zombie Apocalypse
Satya Savitzky, Lancaster University |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | The Digital Age of Grieving Rituals: Mobility and Hybridization of Memories
Fiorenza Gamba, University of Sassari, Italy Fiorenza Gamba Slides |
| 14:45 – 15:30 | Discussion & Close |