GSAPP DeathLab

Based at Columbia University, the DeathLab is a trans-disciplinary research and design space focused on reconceiving how we live with death in the metropolis.

[GSAPP DeathLab @gsappDeathLAB]

@KateWoodyBath @ChurchillFship wonderful news for important work!

[Kate Woodthorpe @KateWoodyBath]

What. A. Day. Got to meet @gsappDeathLAB after following their work for years, and pounded the streets of Manhattan. 29k steps. That’s gonna hurt tomorrow

[GSAPP DeathLab @gsappDeathLAB]

@KateWoodyBath great to meet you too! we look forward to collaborating.

[GSAPP DeathLab @gsappDeathLAB]

@AllisonCMeier @BloomsburyLit @objectsobjects congratulations, Allison! excited to read and share it.

[Recompose | Ecological Death Care @recomposelife]

NYS is the 6th to legalize #naturalorganicreduction aka #humancomposting. Thank you to all who advocated! @TMAR22 @TheGoodDeath @OrderGoodDeath thanks to you and your communities for the hard work. We did it.

[GSAPP DeathLab @gsappDeathLAB]

@AllisonCMeier @objectsobjects @BloomsburyLit can’t wait to read it !

[GSAPP DeathLab @gsappDeathLAB]

@DeathRef sending love and strength and sadness, John.

[GSAPP DeathLab @gsappDeathLAB]

@DeathRef sending love and strength 🤍

[Tanya Marsh @TMAR22]

I'll end with my fav quote from the article by one of my fav people. Right on, my friend @TheGoodDeath. Lots of work for us to do. 8/8

[GSAPP DeathLab @gsappDeathLAB]

New play 'Hart Island' is a meditation on mourning and humanconnection https://t.co/DEzCtNROiE via @gothamist

[MacDowell @MacDowell1907]

MacDowell Fellows donated 10 new works to the #JamesBaldwinLibrary in the last few months of 2021, each one supported by a MacDowell residency! The works all become part of the library's collection and benefit future artists-in-residence. https://t.co/mt2YvEJ4Ea #MadeAtMacDowell

[GSAPP DeathLab @gsappDeathLAB]

excited to see that the state supports a serious study of repurposing miles of underutilized former freight lines to better connect communities in Brooklyn and Queens https://t.co/U2lm3jHJ6e

[GSAPP DeathLab @gsappDeathLAB]

Desmond Tutu requested alkaline hydrolysis — elevating the morality of environmental consciousness in death as in life, and signaling widespread readiness for continued change in the funerary industry. https://t.co/IvyBwcxzH7

[Paul Holdengraber @holdengraber]

“Once the storm is over…”
~ Haruki Murakami

[Columbia GSAPP @ColumbiaGSAPP]

Brought to you by GSAPP Advanced Architectural Design students, rAADio wraps its first season of investigations on entanglements of architecture. Listen all three episodes here before the second season arrives: m.https://t.co/ixramQL5nN

[GSAPP DeathLab @gsappDeathLAB]

great to be among such responsive and provocative work !

[CCA, Canadian Centre for Architecture @ccawire]

How can architecture better understand and adapt to our contemporary conditions? Our upcoming exhibition, #ASectionofNow looks at right now: with a focus on expanding notions of family, property ownership, activism, work, technology, and life expectations: https://t.co/ZaC1sbx4YC

[GSAPP DeathLab @gsappDeathLAB]

and we are grateful for the excellent collaborators!

[GSAPP DeathLab @gsappDeathLAB]

@AriW @longpathOrg @ernestbeckerfdn @LabTerror spaces of death and remembrance can catalyze #civicsacred intergenerational care, and don’t necessarily have to be morose at all — great episode.

[MacDowell @MacDowell1907]

Happy belated book birthday to @gsappDeathLAB's Karla Rothstein (MF 18) and Christina Staudt. Their co-edited book, THE FUTURE OF THE CORPSE: Changing Ecologies of Death and Disposition, was released late last month with @ABC_CLIO: https://t.co/6qdxKCuEv0

[GSAPP DeathLab @gsappDeathLAB]

@MacDowell1907 @ABC_CLIO with gratitude for the incredible community of contributors, creative support @MacDowell1907, and @ColumbiaGSAPP