This project addresses what currently constitutes as “Death Care” and “Emotional Care” within the dying process and question how this can be developed. With this project I wish to create spaces, artworks, and experiences which offer the opportunity to actively reflect on the dying process. My ambition is to develop an open and engaged language and approach to thinking about the dying process.
Death Care will address what currently constitutes as “Emotional Care” within the dying process and question how this can be developed. This will happen through facilitating two workshops in collaboration with a spatial designer and two scent designers. The project is part of my artistic PhD project, and takes inspiration from non-medical methods I have experienced in my fieldwork in Switzerland and Denmark, along with my training as a Death Doula.
Through the workshops I will explore questions as; “What does “Emotional Care” in the dying process currently mean for two different age groups? What is lacking in “Emotional Care” in the dying process right now? What could “Emotional Care” in the dying process be developed into?
“Emotional Care” in the dying process could for example be; music, visits from animals or aromatherapy to a terminally ill patient. My intention with this project is to put a focus on the importance of this kind of “Emotional Care”.
I strongly believe that if we as human beings confront ourselves with thoughts and emotions related to our dying process, we can live more fully right up to the very end. In this way this project is just as much about life as it is about death.
Grantee
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Julie Born Schwartz |
Project partner / cooperations |
Studio Nathalie Schwer -spacial designer
Studio Pneuma- scent designers Diana Lindboe and Camilla Stig Boccardi Christensen
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Date and places
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Januar bis Mai 2026, Kopenhagen und Zürich
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Weblink
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juliebornschwartz.com
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