Galen Pardee, Future Cemetery Resident and DeathLAB Research Associate at Columbia University GSAPP, will be presenting the Lunchtime Talk at the Pervasive Media Lab in Bristol, UK on Friday 1st July at 13:00 “Imagine if cemeteries were a network of memorial vessels transforming biomass into an elegant and perpetually renewing constellation of light.” Join Galen and the Future Cemetery […]
Read more “The Future of our Cemeteries – transforming biomass into light” Lunchtime Talk
About the Future Cemetery Project
The Future Cemetery Project is an immersive experience that engages cemetery visitors with the UK’s postmortem past. The project uses Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol as a platform for a collaboration between the University of Bath’s Centre for Death and Society and media company Calling the Shots.
In 170 years of operation, Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust has handled 320,000 dead bodies, equivalent to ¾ of the living population of Bristol. This entire project utilises mobile, projection and AR technologies to build a future cemetery model, where Victorian past and digital present are woven together.