Digital legacy: Designing with things

Stacey Pitsillides

doi:10.1080/07481187.2018.1541939

Digital legacy: Designing with things

Stacey Pitsillides^*

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Abstract

This paper explores how theories of things can create new forms of agency for the dead. It considers how meaning is constructed through the use or translation of our diverse collections and environments online. These memorials and rituals offer a plurality of narratives, experiences and esthetics, which have the potential to give a wider scope for constructing a durable biography after death. The paper draws conceptual links between digital and physical materials and aims to expand interdisciplinary discourse around the way design can create new forms of legacy through rethinking the role of digital things in our lives.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	426-434
Number of pages	9
Journal	Death Studies
Volume	43
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2018.1541939
Publication status	Published - 9 Aug 2019

Keywords

design
digital legacy
things
agency
narrative

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