The Pet Loss Network (PLN)
2021-2023
UK | International
MOTH has been a network partner, with The Pet Loss Network (PLN) since 2021. An international network of practitioners, professionals and researchers invested in issues of pet death and loss.
Towards the end of 2022, MOTH was pleased to be invited to design the visual identity for the network, a number of design proposals were developed and presented to the PLN members at the beginning of 2023. The final PLN logo has now been chosen and is being integrated into the website and other touchpoints.
The Pet Loss Network (PLN) is co-ordinated by Dr. Julie-Marie Strange, Professor of Modern British History at Durham University and Diane James the Blue Cross Pet Bereavement Support Service Manager.
The PLN aims to:
• Facilitate dialogue between researchers & practitioners concerned with animal end of life and those addressing the human impact of pet loss.
• Develop pilot research among key stakeholders – pet owners and vets in the first instance – to identify how existing (and future) research might be most impactful in improving pet owner experience.
• Generate a working paper identifying steps to measurably improve the experience of pet loss for pet owners.
• Strengthen the network by facilitating sustained and long-term engagement with a view to identifying external funding opportunities to develop new collaborative research on improving pet owner experience at animal end of life.
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Towards the end of 2022, MOTH was pleased to be invited to design the visual identity for the network, a number of design proposals were developed and presented to the PLN members at the beginning of 2023. The final PLN logo has now been chosen and is being integrated into the website and other touchpoints.
The Pet Loss Network (PLN) is co-ordinated by Dr. Julie-Marie Strange, Professor of Modern British History at Durham University and Diane James the Blue Cross Pet Bereavement Support Service Manager.
The PLN aims to:
• Facilitate dialogue between researchers & practitioners concerned with animal end of life and those addressing the human impact of pet loss.
• Develop pilot research among key stakeholders – pet owners and vets in the first instance – to identify how existing (and future) research might be most impactful in improving pet owner experience.
• Generate a working paper identifying steps to measurably improve the experience of pet loss for pet owners.
• Strengthen the network by facilitating sustained and long-term engagement with a view to identifying external funding opportunities to develop new collaborative research on improving pet owner experience at animal end of life.
The Death & Culture Network (DaCNet)
Sept 2022
University of York, St John University
MOTH delivered a conference paper | The Life & Death of ‘STUFF’
at The Death & Culture Network (DaCNet) University of York, St John University, International Biennial Conference.
In a visually saturated world, consumed at speed alongside a superabundance of objects and brands, our lives and the clutter we create can be overwhelming. Some objects are valueless - until they are rediscovered and transformed into a durable and wanted items. Others have no value, save for their meaningful and personal relationship to a person, place, or thing - determining provenance. Design imbues meaning and myth, assumptions, and values, it mediates how we interact with the world. All the objects we design/make/use are charged with political significance; they impact the world with consequences and culpabilities.
‘Our significant objects’ remind us of the narratives of our lived materiality - meaning, transition, connectivity with loves and losses, hopes and dreams. To have and to hold is essentially human. The cultural philosopher, Marshall McLuhan, talks of our fundamental need to find meaning, we need to make sense of the world, in order, to survive.
Functional or technical obsolescence is a familiar concept, but we know less about emotional obsolescence: the emotional and material factors which influence what we decide to keep or discard. Our objects and possessions can reveal much about ourselves, they may outlive us, and it begs the question, of what happens to them beyond our lifetime?
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at The Death & Culture Network (DaCNet) University of York, St John University, International Biennial Conference.
In a visually saturated world, consumed at speed alongside a superabundance of objects and brands, our lives and the clutter we create can be overwhelming. Some objects are valueless - until they are rediscovered and transformed into a durable and wanted items. Others have no value, save for their meaningful and personal relationship to a person, place, or thing - determining provenance. Design imbues meaning and myth, assumptions, and values, it mediates how we interact with the world. All the objects we design/make/use are charged with political significance; they impact the world with consequences and culpabilities.
‘Our significant objects’ remind us of the narratives of our lived materiality - meaning, transition, connectivity with loves and losses, hopes and dreams. To have and to hold is essentially human. The cultural philosopher, Marshall McLuhan, talks of our fundamental need to find meaning, we need to make sense of the world, in order, to survive.
Functional or technical obsolescence is a familiar concept, but we know less about emotional obsolescence: the emotional and material factors which influence what we decide to keep or discard. Our objects and possessions can reveal much about ourselves, they may outlive us, and it begs the question, of what happens to them beyond our lifetime?
Dust Ltd.
9 July - 27 August 2022
Penzance
An Extra Place at the Table - Exhibition & Shop
Moth is so excited to announce, they are working with Lucy Willow from DUST @d.u.s.t_art, together they have set up an installation 'An Extra Place at The Table' in the Dust Shop / Exhibition space.
MOTH SHOP | Design for Life & Death
Moth passionately believe that design can help us to navigate how we approach, end of life, grief and loss.
We hope that the exhibition will invite visitors to feel free to talk about who they lay an extra place at the table for and to normalise conversations about death and grief. There will also be a shop full of death and grief related zines, objects and products for sale.
9 JULY - 27 AUGUST
DUST
4-5 ALBERT BUILDINGS
PENZANCE
TR182DB
https://www.dustltd.art/
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Moth is so excited to announce, they are working with Lucy Willow from DUST @d.u.s.t_art, together they have set up an installation 'An Extra Place at The Table' in the Dust Shop / Exhibition space.
MOTH SHOP | Design for Life & Death
Moth passionately believe that design can help us to navigate how we approach, end of life, grief and loss.
We hope that the exhibition will invite visitors to feel free to talk about who they lay an extra place at the table for and to normalise conversations about death and grief. There will also be a shop full of death and grief related zines, objects and products for sale.
9 JULY - 27 AUGUST
DUST
4-5 ALBERT BUILDINGS
PENZANCE
TR182DB
https://www.dustltd.art/
