How can design contribute to the development of both material and spiritual wellbeing and sustainability?
For example, the relation between materialistic and spiritual fulfillment, physical and mental practices and skills, ownership and access, or between sustainability and wealth?
Burial Shrouds
Reflective Practices Addressing Grief, Loss, and the Intersections of Personal and Global Tragedies
TEAM
Dobrawa Brach Kalzuna
CONTEXT
MA Design for Body & Environment
2024
PROFESSORS
Kathy Mooney
Angela O'Kelly
Rachel Tuffy
Burial Shrouds focuses on the principles of making, learning, noticing, and caring through reflective weaving and design practice. In a world facing crisis, biodiversity loss and despair it reflects on our relationship with creativity and spiritual fulfilment, creating multi-dimensional woven pieces from hemp and linen that are tactile, dynamic, and interactive; designed to be touched and explored. Burial Shrouds examines creativity through the lens of grief following an unexpected death, juxtaposing intangible spiritual emotions with tangible, material expressions of loss and remembrance.
