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Exist Side by Side
Project locationAustralia, Melbourne
University/SchoolRMIT University
Lead ArchitectXuanru(Elio) Liu
Exist Side by Side seeks to reveal and address the disjuncture in people's perceptions of death in cross-cultural and political contexts by defining participation mechanisms for the cemetery and memorial. The proposal reconsiders the potentialities that the cemetery affords to the architectural discipline to redefine the role of the cemetery and memorialisation in the articulated consciousness. The cemetery/memorialis reconsidered as a public space embedded within the ‘local’ allowing for the establishment an immediate and communal relationship to death, embracing the intimacy of living.