RITE explores, among other things, how tailored rites can help a person – or an organization – end their relationship with a dysfunctional structure or context.

The art of relinquishment has proven to be a recurring theme in our Rite development process. This has meant prototyping and testing of rites for shrinking, un-owning and palliative institutional care. Sweden’s first farewell bureau, Ars Moriendi, has inspired the exploration and has since 2024 also been part of the RITE cluster.

Ars Moriendi wants to take a role in society’s ongoing transformation, by facilitating and providing a dignified and personal last farewell of artifacts and systems that have become dysfunctional or obsolete. The Farewell bureau’s activities started already in 2022 and important experience was gained during the first two years. The bureau started already in 2022 and important experience was gained during the first two years. Not least, it became clear that the lock-in of the institutionalized structures that characterize our late modern society is more extensive than we had first thought. It was therefore clear that a broader perspective needed to be established. From this need the RITE agency emerged.

For more information about the Farewell Bureau, please visit
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