‘Communities seek compatible ways to integrate this enigmatic event, death, into the fabric of life’ Karla Rothstein and Christina Staudt on care at the end of life and after death GSAPP DeathLab architectural-review.com/essays/death/l…

The covid-19 pandemic can help us moving from denying death to finding new, more open and more public ways to deal with the end of life, writes GSAPP DeathLab In The Architectural Review architectural-review.com/essays/death/l…

Thank you Mayor Eric Adams for budgeting $50 million to remove buildings and make Hart Island safe for visitors. gothamist.com/news/rikers-in…

One year ago today, 24 May 2020 -- front page of the New York Times. May 24, 2021 -- 590,000+ US COVID deaths later......

via The New York Times „IDEAS xLab… (Un)Known Project… is both a remembrance and a provocation — a memorial to those whose stories will never be uncovered, as well as a challenge to the public to unearth narratives that may exist“ ⁦@maggiepjones⁩ nytimes.com/2021/06/09/art…

Louisiana historians and funeral directors work w Forensic Architecture to uncover cemeteries of formerly enslaved people on Mississippi River land now largely owned by petrochemical companies. nytimes.com/video/us/10000…

“Describe your loss” @GreenWoodHF bkmag.com/2021/09/16/gre…

Tune to WBAI New York at 99.5 FM, streaming at wbai.org 99.5 FM this Sunday at 10:00 AM when I’ll talk with host Jeff Simmons Jeff Simmons about the history and future of Hart Island

Happy belated book birthday to GSAPP DeathLab'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: products.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorpor…

and we are grateful for the excellent collaborators!

great to be among such responsive and provocative work !

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.soundcloud.com/columbiagsapp/…

“Once the storm is over…” ~ Haruki Murakami

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. washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/…

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 amny.com/transit/mta-to…

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. instagram.com/p/CauWoF4rtZp/ #MadeAtMacDowell

New play 'Hart Island' is a meditation on mourning and humanconnection gothamist.com/arts-entertain… via Gothamist

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

NYS is the 6th to legalize #naturalorganicreduction aka #humancomposting. Thank you to all who advocated! Tanya Marsh Caitlin Doughty Updates OrderoftheGoodDeath thanks to you and your communities for the hard work. We did it.

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