Death

Everything starts after overcoming the fear of death

Last time, we shared about our event planning bracelet, which is our prototype 3, and Popo’s visit to Death Cafe. After visiting Death Cafe, we learned something very fundamental, but crucial. With all of our research and interviews…

Prototype 3- Making end-of-life experience poetic

Last time, we talked about puzzle collage poster and how it lacked potential buy-in from a patient and lacked emotional/personal aspect. We felt we were stuck in a pothole, because we could not think of a good way to make our solution poetic…

Prototype 2- Our take at putting ‘life’ into end of life care…

The main takeaway from our initial in-class crit session, in which everyone shared his or her thoughts using post-its, was that our solution, the one we covered in the previous post, was too informative and feels very…

Our assumption, goals, priorities

This is a quick summary of assignments 2,3, and 4. These are some of the initial goals that we have for our project. These could all change as we continue to do more research on the topic.

Our value:

Initial Research

We first started our initial research about death in general, since we did not have a good understanding about underlying issues and opportunities regarding death. Initially, we wanted to explore this area broadly, so we tried to looked for any interesting topics regarding death by reading articles…

Inspiration and Motivation

by Popo Sethpornpong

The inspiration for our design capstone project came from multiple factors. My grandmother has been involved with promoting the mindset for end of life and hospice care for the past decade. She has given lectures to a variety of…