Anne is a sociologist, grief coach, and death doula. She has worked as an experience innovation consultant with some of the world’s largest organizations. Working at the intersection of grief, art, and collective practice, she creates spaces where grieving can be engaged as a living process – not something to “get over,” but something to move with.

Stefanie is a trend researcher and innovation strategist. Since 2019, she has explored how contemporary culture is radically reimagining the end of life – through her platform Good Grief and in advisory work with companies across Europe and the US. Her work centers on one guiding question: How do we design for death?

In this joint keynote, they explore death as an overlooked design frontier.

Anne shares how she and her husband, designer Eike König, created new objects, rituals, and ceremonies to weave their stillborn daughter Coco into their ongoing lives. Stefanie presents emerging shifts in memorial design, digital legacy, and the evolving death economy.

If design shapes how we live, it also shapes how we grieve.
If we can design seamless digital ecosystems and smart cities, surely we can design more human ways to say goodbye.