Então e se... quando morrermos, ao invés de sermos enterrados e apenas isso... formos enterrados e passarmos a constituir a matéria orgânica necessária para o crescimento de uma árvore? Muito ecológica esta ideia não acham?
Ninguém gosta muito de pensar sobre a morte ou sobre como gostaria de ser tratado após a morte mas talvez se associar-mos esse momento a renovação, equilíbrio, natureza e vida... sim... a vida... talvez o assunto se torne mais agradável e leve.
O projecto "Capsula Mundi" propõe-se como uma perspectiva nova e ecológica:
"As designers we have asked ourselves what is our role in front of a society distant from nature, satisfied and over loaded with objects.
We wanted to dedicate our work to an important moment.
Death is a mysterious, delicate and inevitable step. The dead cannot be just a technical problem, it cannot be treated as a taboo. Regardless of the religion and culture we belong to, death is a biological phenomenon, it’s the same thing for everyone. No designer ever thinks of a coffin but this becomes a way of reflecting on how distant we are from mother nature".
"It’s the first Italian project created to promote the realization of green cemeteries in our country.
Capsula Mundi is a container with an old perfect shape, just like an egg, made with modern material -starch plastic- in which the dead body is put in a fetal position. Capsula Mundi is planted like a seed in the soil, and a tree is planted on top of it. The tree is chosen when the person is alive, relatives and friends look after it when death occurs. A cemetery will no longer be full of tombstones and will become a sacred forest."
"Man doesn’t only belong to the human race, but to the planet’s complex life. Since man has been able to express himself through writing, the tree represents the union between the earth and the sky, material and immaterial, body and soul. The vegetable world is an element of contact among us, complex organisms, and the mineral world, are sources we cannot get nutrition from. To make a coffin nowadays you cut down an old tree, of valuable wood. A coffin has a short life spand and is a product of our society. The growth of a tree needs from 10 to 40 years and a coffin is used for three days. Capsula Mundi is produced with 100% biodegradable material, starch plastic. The starch is taken from seasonal plants such as potatoes and corn. Capsula Mundi saves the life of a tree and proposes to plant one more. By planting different kinds of trees next to each other it creates a forest. A place where children will be able to learn all about trees. It’s also a place for a beautiful walk and a reminder of our loved ones."
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