In broadband-enabled societies people’s experiences of death and death related practices including grieving, mourning and remembrance are being disembedded as communities tied to a traditional notion of place are eroded. However, the rise of networked individualism through broadband technologies and services also supports new connectivities, networks and practices and therefore potential support through networked communities.

This project is examining particular, situated examples of remembering, memorialising, grieving, recovering, disposing and forgetting and contemporary notions of performance and audience, time and place, membership and publics, sacred and sacrilegious. It is also considering modern trends of communion and networked individualism associated with death and death-related practices.

Connor Graham's work on the project has an Asian focus and includes examining memorials in China and researching suicides on the Tokyo underground system in Japan, both from the point of view of design.