How can we empower individual grieving?

Good Grief

Lena Daur
Julia Sauter
Chiara Sterzl

We perceive grief as an extension of love. Like love, grieving is an individual, natural process. Grief is also a part of life since every one of us will be confronted with it at some point. Yet, the topics of death and grief are often abandoned in our everyday life. Talking about the topic is often avoided, feelings in public suppressed, and rituals and support only cover the very beginning of the grieving stage. This leaves grievers feeling alone helpless or abnormal with their feelings. This project aims to empower grievers to explore their personal way of grieving. At the same time, we are lacking knowledge of how to deal with people who are dying or experiencing a loss. We want to educate, and share tools of how to naturally handle these difficult situations. In order to be able to support others, and prepare ourselves for dealing with death in our life.

A project made in the course

Project 3 – Thesis Preparation Project with Design Research

The main objectives of Project 3, which is dedicated to the preparation of the final thesis project, are to support the students find relevant and appropriate topics, to help them navigate and plan the research and development of their projects and to enter an active, productive and self-responsible working process. Students are encouraged and supported on developing new competences, investigating new practices and establishing a culture of experimentation and exchange. This includes finding and developing forms of discourse, action and learning that foster students to facilitate ambitious projects and an interesting and reasonable proposition for their final thesis project.