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From the Ted Talk by Alison Killing: There’s a better way to die, and architecture can help

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So this conversation about dtaeh and architecture was what I wanted to start when I did my first etobhxiiin on it in Venice in June, which was called "Death in Venice." It was designed to be quite playful so that people would literally engage with it. This is one of our exhibits, which is an interactive map of loodnn that shows just how much of the real eastte in the city is given over to death and dying, and as you wave your hand across the map, the name of that piece of real estate, the building or cemetery, is revealed. Another of our exhibits was a series of postcards that pleope could take away with them. And they showed people's homes and hoslatpis and cemeteries and maturreois, and they tell the story of the different spaces that we pass through on either side of death. We weatnd to show that where we die is a key part of how we die.

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So this conversation about _____ and architecture was what I wanted to start when I did my first __________ on it in Venice in June, which was called "Death in Venice." It was designed to be quite playful so that people would literally engage with it. This is one of our exhibits, which is an interactive map of ______ that shows just how much of the real ______ in the city is given over to death and dying, and as you wave your hand across the map, the name of that piece of real estate, the building or cemetery, is revealed. Another of our exhibits was a series of postcards that ______ could take away with them. And they showed people's homes and _________ and cemeteries and __________, and they tell the story of the different spaces that we pass through on either side of death. We ______ to show that where we die is a key part of how we die.

Solution


  1. people
  2. estate
  3. hospitals
  4. exhibition
  5. death
  6. london
  7. wanted
  8. mortuaries

Original Text


So this conversation about death and architecture was what I wanted to start when I did my first exhibition on it in Venice in June, which was called "Death in Venice." It was designed to be quite playful so that people would literally engage with it. This is one of our exhibits, which is an interactive map of London that shows just how much of the real estate in the city is given over to death and dying, and as you wave your hand across the map, the name of that piece of real estate, the building or cemetery, is revealed. Another of our exhibits was a series of postcards that people could take away with them. And they showed people's homes and hospitals and cemeteries and mortuaries, and they tell the story of the different spaces that we pass through on either side of death. We wanted to show that where we die is a key part of how we die.

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