25/11/2025
An interesting webinar to check out! Pia is a leader in this field and a delight to learn from!
Book now as NDAN & Australian Home Funeral Alliance jointly Presents - End of Life: Bodies in Dress and Death
In this presentation, Dr Pia Interlandi will share samples and previews from the Decomposition Database, an evolving research archive that maps how textiles are used across practical and poetic end-of-life contexts and how they transform through regenerative processes such as natural burial, alkaline hydrolysis, and human composting. Pia will discuss the role of cloth in mediating our transitions between body and environment, and how the material choices we make at the end of life continue to shape what becomes of both the dressed body and its material afterlives.
Audience members will gain an understanding of how textiles interact with decomposition, why material selection matters in funeral and body-disposal contexts, and how design and science can work together to create more regenerative end-of-life practices.
Associate Professor Pia Interlandi is a designer and researcher in the School of Design and the Built Environment at Curtin University in Western Australia. Working at the intersections of fashion, funerals, and forensics, her creative practice Garments for the Grave explores how materials and materiality shape our experiences of dress, death, and decomposition.
DATE - Saturday 6 December 2025, 7Pm-9PM AEDT
Book Now via https://shorturl.at/28OsZ
