Tamara Ingels 2024

Independent Scholar, Belgium

The intergenerational dialogue as a new approach to cemetery management development [v]

Tamara Ingels will bring new and innovative insights on the role, interpretation and possibilities of intergenerational dialogue within our death care and managing (historic) cemeteries. Starting from her own practice as a cemetery consultant and cemetery guide/docent, she developed a set of practical techniques and educational ideas. These focus on an adequate methodology for the intergenerational dialogue in a cemetery context and on the impact of this method on lifelong learning strategies within these unique places. She widens the discussion on the intergenerational dialogue towards possible roles of this methodology within heritage care, landscape care, (super)diversity policy strategies and services given at the office counters of cemeteries and undertakers. She concludes that the intergenerational dialogue is an essential tool for the development of customised cemetery management strategies on education, environmental sustainability, landscape design and remembrance in the future. This places her ideas perfect within the sustainable Development Goals of the UN. Her new approach will be included in a new book ‘Memento Mori III – The sustainable cemetery’, which she developed with co-project leader Joeri Mertens over the last 1.5 years. In the third volume of the Memento Mori book series, a team of no less than 19 national and international authors have been working together on themes related to sustainability.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract