After Life for Design: Exhibition Showcases Sustainable Burial Practices

After Life for Design: Exhibition Showcases Sustainable Burial Practices
TEXTILES FOR GREEN BURIAL A natural earth burial allows the body and biodegradable coverings to become soil nutrients. Dr Sherry Haar co-curated an installation ‘Return to Prairie: Textiles for Green Burial Awareness’ (to run till 21 December 2024), which includes wearable art, quilts, and a felted coffin designed to stimulate discussion about preparations for death and sustainable burial. Jeff Moore / Kansas State University

Designing for death! You read it right. And then an exhibition that encourages visitors to consider end-of-life decisions and how their choices can impact human and environmental well-being. Dr Sherry Haar, a natural dye and design scholar, investigates all of this and more to generate awareness about green burial through her fibre art.