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Professor of Historic Preservation Dr. Harriet Harriss wrote an essay in e-flux on “solastalgic architecture” and “design in the anthropocene” amid melting permafrost and other climate disruptions. “The practice of a death doula is to be attuned to the liminal space between living and dying, presence and absence, structure and entropy. In end-of-life care, the doula’s role is not to cure but to accompany, to hold vigil, to help navigate transition. Architecture must learn to inhabit this threshold, to become a doula for the dying infrastructures of a warming world, for the landscapes unraveling under permafrost thaw, for the futures that will never arrive.”