User design study and survey for a novel ecological marine alternative to funerals and cremation

替代葬礼和火葬的新型生态海洋替代品的用户设计研究和调查

• 批准号: 10050305
• 金额: $ 10.19万
• 依托单位: RESTING REEF LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10050305
• 关键词: User; design; study; survey; novel

Resting Reef is a memorial and eco-burial service that regenerates life in people's afterlives and radically changes how we see and experience one of the most traumatic events in our lifetime - death. We do this by building artificial reef structures with a formula containing human ashes and crushed oyster shells, two elements that nourish and promote marine growth. Resting Reef provides legacies that restore nature for the next generations to come by increasing marine biodiversity, filtering water, preventing coastal erosion, and capturing CO2\. Each individual memorial will be a reef structure that can be combined to create entire artificial reef cemeteries to boost natural oyster reefs, which have decreased by 85 percent due to human activities. This makes them one of the world's most threatened bio-diverse habitats. Traditional burials require large amounts of land, embalming fluids that find their way into the groundwater, and materials with intense emissions like steel and concrete. Each cremation releases 400 kilograms of CO2 into the atmosphere for each funeral. Resting Reef, as a solution to this, promotes marine growth with the regeneration of approximately 100 oysters per reef which equals a positive impact of 7 million litres of water filtered every year (Beck et al., 2011). By promoting the growth of oysters, seagrass will grow in the area, and fish will flourish. It also prevents billions of pounds of erosion damage to coastal communities (Stokes el al., 2012). We aim to revolutionise the way funeral services are delivered, creating an experience that accompanies customers throughout their whole grief process, providing aftercare services that guide and support them in navigating one of the most traumatic experiences in life. We want to develop beautiful sites where people can visit their loved ones, connect with nature, and witness the restoration efforts from land or through live footage (i.e. diver or ROV). The sites will also be available for locals who wish to visit and learn more about how the reef serves their coast. At present, Resting Reef has a defined process for converting a person's ashes into reef structures. However, the team does not yet have a method defined for how the loved ones will interact, design and order the reef structures. This project is focused on a design study to understand how different age, social, cultural and ethnic groups are likely to specify and order the reef structures to honour their final wishes.

Resting Reef是一项纪念和生态埋葬服务，可以让人们的来世重生，并从根本上改变我们看待和经历我们一生中最具创伤性的事件之一-死亡的方式。我们通过建造人工鱼礁结构来做到这一点，人工鱼礁结构的配方含有人类骨灰和碎牡蛎壳，这两种元素可以滋养和促进海洋生长。Resting Reef通过增加海洋生物多样性，过滤水，防止海岸侵蚀和捕获二氧化碳，为下一代提供恢复自然的遗产。每一个纪念碑都将是一个珊瑚礁结构，可以组合起来创建整个人工珊瑚礁墓地，以促进天然牡蛎礁，由于人类活动，天然牡蛎礁已经减少了85%。这使它们成为世界上最受威胁的生物多样性栖息地之一。传统的埋葬需要大量的土地，防腐液会进入地下水，以及钢铁和混凝土等具有强烈排放的材料。每次火葬都会向大气中释放400公斤的二氧化碳。作为解决方案，Resting Reef可促进海洋生长，每个珊瑚礁再生约100只牡蛎，相当于每年过滤700万升水的积极影响（Beck等人，2011年）。通过促进牡蛎的生长，海草将在该地区生长，鱼类将蓬勃发展。它还防止了对沿海社区数十亿磅的侵蚀破坏（Stokes等人，2012年）。我们的目标是彻底改变葬礼服务的提供方式，创造一种在整个悲伤过程中陪伴客户的体验，提供善后服务，指导和支持他们度过生命中最痛苦的经历之一。我们希望开发美丽的网站，人们可以访问他们的亲人，与自然联系，并从陆地或通过现场镜头（即潜水员或潜水员）见证恢复工作。这些地点也将提供给当地人谁希望访问和了解更多关于珊瑚礁如何服务于他们的海岸。目前，休息礁有一个明确的过程，将一个人的骨灰转化为珊瑚礁结构。然而，该团队还没有一种方法来定义所爱的人如何互动，设计和订购珊瑚礁结构。该项目的重点是设计研究，以了解不同年龄，社会，文化和种族群体如何可能指定和命令珊瑚礁结构，以满足他们的最终愿望。