Student project
MNEMOSYNE – A coffin made of mycelium
- Designer
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Søren Overgaard Pedersen
- Education
- Bachelor
- Subject area
- Industrial Design
- Year
- 2022
Background
Even though death is one of the most natural occurrences there is, our culture demands that we treat death as something unnatural, for example by hiding the dead person in a box made of chipboard.
MNEMOSYNE – A coffin made of mycelium
It is the designer’s intention to bring death closer to nature, and he has therefore rethought the traditional coffin. He believes it should be made exclusively of mycelium – the white root system of fungi – which is both a very strong but also a very light material. In addition, the coffin will compost quickly, as will the deceased. The memory, however, will remain strong, and that is why the coffin is named after Mnemosyne – the Greek goddess of memory and remembrance .
