Although the subject might not be an attractive one, it’s worth taking a look at the projects by students of Li Edelkoort who this year have thought about the notion of life and death, funeral rites and memorial ceremonies. Cardboard urns (Lesley van Berkel), votive jewels (Marieke Blaauw), designer fonts (Hiromi Watanabe) and technological altars (Lonneke Gordijn) the young students from the Design Academy in Eindhoven show how uses and traditions for funerals are changing in the western world.

Post Mortem
Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale
via dei Cavalieri del Santo Sepolcro 3
Hours 5-9.4.2006, h. 10.30-19
http://www.designacademy.nl

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