Narrative Cemetery: Ritual Arrangement and Rearrangement. A Design Proposal for Michigan Memorial Park Cemetery USA
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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6080Keywords:
Cemetery, Narrative, Mourner, Artifact, MonumentAbstract
“The Narrative Cemetery” proposes a reconsideration of contemporary American rituals of burial and methods of memorializing individuals. An archive of family histories is developed to become a field of monuments confronting several issues within the contemporary culture of burial. Narratives hold a pivotal role when grieving, in the process of “rearrangement”. The Narrative Monument engages this phenomena by interpreting and displaying stories of the deceased on a field of markers and monuments. Personalized and tactile markers engage the mourner and build an immersive setting for ritual, in which the presence of the individual is felt and immortalized.References
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