The 6th International Symposium of the Death Online/Research Network (2023) was organised by Northumbria University’s School of Design and Department of Humanities.
DORS#6 Death Futures (2023) took place at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and online.
This symposium provided the DORN community with space to explore new and ongoing orientations in the interdisciplinary field of death online, particularly focusing on Death Futures.
The Death Online Research Network was founded in Copenhagen in 2013 to encourage international collaboration and conversation around the study of death and digital media.
DORS#6 Death Futures (2023) took place at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and online.
This symposium provided the DORN community with space to explore new and ongoing orientations in the interdisciplinary field of death online, particularly focusing on Death Futures.
The Death Online Research Network was founded in Copenhagen in 2013 to encourage international collaboration and conversation around the study of death and digital media.
DORS#6 presented a wide range of papers exploring themes from digital grief and memory to celebrity death, covid-19 funerals, AI, cultural/ artistic representations of digital afterlives and many more.
During the conference, my role was as an event Coordination Research Assistant & Designer. My responsibility was to create an identity for this year's conference, along with the programme and a book where we displayed abstracts of the papers presented by our speakers, t-shirts, bookmarks, and name cards. I was also tasked with preparing large-scale prints and arranging exhibition space in the foyer of Northumbria's School of Design.
During the 3 days conference, I was responsible for coordinating an event, along with two students hired specifically on that occasion.
final programme
When designing spreads for the book, I wanted to keep the abstracts in the centre of the page. Some ideas had to be discarded in the early stage due to accessibility issues that might have arisen.
I really wanted to make navigation easy, and for that purpose, I designed a simple marking system which is visible on every page. Readers can use the panel to quickly check on what day the speaker is presenting (dots), what panel it is, what room and what time. It is also possible to see the title and number of the panel on the top of the page.
Programme exploration
