e-flux: URNA: London Design Biennale

“URNA” to represent Malta at the London Design Biennale 2025.

Arts Council Malta will be once again returning to the London Design Biennale, in 2025, this time with the selected project URNA.

URNA is an inovative project exploring the fascinating and distinctive subject of cremation. This project perfectly exemplifies and merges design innovation and creativity. It is bold, stimulating and far-reaching, beyond the idea of simply “art”. It is a design for the community and challenges the status quo on interment, while offering a solution that is both poetic, intellectually stimulating and environmentally engaging. It should serve as the starting point for much discussion.

URNA introduces a new ritual for handling human remains, anticipating the adoption of cremation in the Maltese Islands and envisioning it as a culturally significant process. The project redefines the columbarium, ossuary, and wake to re-establish death as a significant ceremony, unburdened by unnecessary signifiers.

Read more: https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/613752/urna-london-design-biennale-2025/