REF 2021 Portfolio - Love After Death
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Love After Death is a touring installation that questions how futuring technologies and aesthetics augment our relationship to end-of-life planning? It was commissioned by NESTA for their own flagship public engagement event: FutureFest, and was recommissioned by Redbridge Library for Dying Matters Week 2018. Futurefest16 attracted over 4,000 international visitors and Redbridge Library receives an average of 3,000 visitors every weekend. Since its conception in 2016 it has been redesigned as a site-specific intervention for libraries called ‘Tickets for the Afterlife’. This explores how libraries can be used as death positive spaces that aid publics in exploring their physical and digital legacies. By creating diegetic prototypes that tangibly explore the relationship between technology, creativity and death this project produces new knowledge in the fields of speculative design, death studies, human-computer interaction (HCI) and artistic research as an innovative model of public engagement. FutureFest established the baseline of the research within a highly knowledgeable and tech savvy audience. Working with libraries has expanded this research to explore diverse communities across the UK. Tickets for the Afterlife has been commissioned and installed during: London Design Week 2019, the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2019 at Newcastle City Library and during DesignTO festival, Toronto 2020, Dying. Dialogues series, with an online programme during COVID-19. Love After Death has engaged 1,821 people deeply across six installations and live events online. It has been awarded funding from the Wellcome/Carnegie Trust and Wolfson Foundation’s Engaging Libraries Award to be co-designed over 18 months 2020/2021 across three library commissions in the UK: Redbridge, Kirklees and Newcastle. The installation was covered by QUARTZ, Esquire and BBC Digital Planet. It was shortlisted for the ‘Best Death Related Public Engagement Event’ of 2017 by the Good Funeral Awards and Redbridge Library won the EDGE2019 Award for The Final Party, where Love After Death was a core partner.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.699 | 0.391 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".