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

休息礁是一种纪念和生态安葬服务，它能让人们的来世重生，并从根本上改变我们看待和体验一生中最具创伤的事件之一--死亡--的方式。我们通过使用含有人类骨灰和碎牡蛎壳的配方建造人工珊瑚礁结构来做到这一点，这两种元素可以滋养和促进海洋生长。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，为下一代提供了恢复自然的遗产。每个单独的纪念碑都将是一个珊瑚礁结构，可以组合在一起创建整个人工珊瑚礁墓地，以促进天然牡蛎礁的发展，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。传统的墓葬需要大量的土地，防腐液体进入地下水，以及钢铁和混凝土等排放强烈的材料。每次火化都会向大气中释放400公斤二氧化碳，为每次葬礼做准备。作为一种解决方案，珊瑚礁促进了海洋生长，每个珊瑚礁再生了大约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。它还可以防止对沿海社区造成数十亿磅的侵蚀损害(Stokes等人，2012年)。我们的目标是改革殡葬服务的提供方式，创造一种伴随客户整个悲痛过程的体验，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地点，在那里人们可以拜访他们所爱的人，与自然建立联系，并从陆地或通过直播镜头(如潜水员或水下机器人)见证修复工作。这些景点也将向希望参观和了解更多关于珊瑚礁如何为他们的海岸服务的当地人开放。目前，RESTING Reef有一个明确的流程，可以将人的骨灰转化为礁石结构。然而，该团队还没有为亲人如何互动、设计和排列珊瑚礁结构定义方法。这个项目的重点是一项设计研究，以了解不同的年龄、社会、文化和种族群体可能如何指定和订购珊瑚礁结构，以满足他们的最后愿望。

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.