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

Resting Reef 是一种纪念和生态埋葬服务，可以让人们在死后重生，并从根本上改变我们看待和经历一生中最痛苦的事件之一——死亡的方式。为此，我们使用含有人类骨灰和碎牡蛎壳的配方建造人工鱼礁结构，这两种元素可以滋养和促进海洋生长。静止的珊瑚礁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，为子孙后代恢复自然提供了遗产。每个单独的纪念馆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，以促进天然牡蛎礁的生长，由于人类活动，牡蛎礁已经减少了 85%。这使它们成为世界上受威胁最严重的生物多样性栖息地之一。传统的埋葬需要大量的土地、进入地下水的防腐液以及钢铁和混凝土等高排放材料。每次火葬都会向大气中释放 400 公斤二氧化碳。作为解决这一问题的解决方案，珊瑚礁休憩可以促进海洋生长，每个珊瑚礁再生约 100 只牡蛎，相当于每年过滤 700 万升水，产生积极影响（Beck 等人，2011 年）。通过促进牡蛎的生长，该地区的海草将会生长，鱼类也会繁盛。它还可以防止沿海社区遭受数十亿磅的侵蚀破坏（Stokes 等，2012）。我们的目标是彻底改变葬礼服务的提供方式，创造一种陪伴客户度过整个悲伤过程的体验，提供善后服务，指导和支持他们度过人生中最痛苦的经历之一。我们希望开发美丽的场所，让人们可以拜访亲人、与大自然接触，并从陆地或通过现场录像（即潜水员或遥控潜水器）见证恢复工作。这些地点也可供希望参观并了解更多有关珊瑚礁如何服务其海岸的当地人使用。目前，Resting Reef 已制定了将骨灰转化为珊瑚礁结构的明确流程。然而，该团队尚未确定亲人如何互动、设计和订购珊瑚礁结构的方法。该项目的重点是一项设计研究，以了解不同年龄、社会、文化和种族群体可能如何指定和订购珊瑚礁结构，以实现他们的最终愿望。

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.