Capsula Mundi
From Italian designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel comes the beautiful Capsula Mundi:
“What could be a possible path for a design project, from which assumptions should it start? Could we think about it as an object that belongs to reality and, like an archeological relic, provides us with information about the civilization it came from? How could we communicate criticism of the civilization in which we grew up? What could we change? What cultural mark can a designer leave, not through urban planning or architecture, but through a simple object?
Here it is, the Capsula Mundi - an archaic-shaped container realized with modern material, starch plastic (biodegradable in time), in which the body of the dead, placed a in fetal position, is lain. Capsula Mundi is planted in the earth like a seed. Above it, to signal the presence of occupied space, is a shallow concave circle dug out of the ground. In the center of which, a tree is planted, the essence of it chosen in life by the dead one, the care of this tree is the responsibility of everyone. The cemetery will, then, acquire a new look. No longer the overpopulated urban environment with congested architecture, it will be a natural one in contact with the earth, enveloping expansive areas, entire hills consecrated to the cult of the dead.
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