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design for death
name of design: museum of life by yi luo design by: yi luo from china
museum of life by yi luo
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Apr 16, 2013
DIY gene specimen collecting device:The gene specimen test tubes will store hair with follicle, blood and bloodstains, Oral swabs, semen fluid semen stains ,and exfoliated cells.
Genes of amber:When the gene specimen is put into the test tube, rotate the airtight container and break the sealed tube of Component B set inside to allow the sealant of Component A and B to be mixed and solidified , Gene specimens are sealed like insects sealed in amber, so they can be preserved for a long term.
Time capsule:The collected gene specimens would be put into the Time capsule along with the personalized information – from a line of epitaph to a whole autobiography. People can design their own Time capsules individually so that each Time capsule could be a work of art.
Automated super genes warehouse:An automated super genes warehouse could store billions of Time capsules to meet the funeral demand of a city for one century.
designer’s own words: Design description: Have you ever considered of burying your dead parent in a pyramid of Pharaoh? Do you wish that all your achievements, experiences and ideas could be recorded and would make a huge difference in history? And do you believe that in the future gene cloning techniques could revive the person you love? Oriented to cities with a high population density, Museum Of Life presents an innovative concept of funeral: An automated super genes warehouse built within a skyscraper-like iconic memorial building in the city where billions of gene specimens, personalized information and sourvenirs are kept orderly by categories. This is just Museum Of Life: a gene entrusting service that preserves the individual gene samples permanently while keeping the individual privacy from being invaded, an encyclopedia written with each departed involved, a school where people to learn of death and also an innovative architecture of funeral. Museum Of Life offers a complete set of self-help individual genetic specimen collecting device and an expert-level in-vivo gene specimen collecting service. The collected gene specimens would be put into the Time capsule along with the personalized information – from a line of epitaph to a whole autobiography. This information would open to the public through the Museum Of Life’s digital library based on the preset privacy grade. People can design their own Time capsules individually so that each Time capsule could be a work of art. There are a number of ceremony spaces in different styles and sizes at different ranks inside and outside Museum Of Life. People could select a funeral space according to their religions, customs, tastes and purchasing powers. The process of funeral is a ritualized process of putting the Time capsule into Museum Of Life’s automatic stereo warehouse under a constant temperature and humidity condition. The whole process is completed by the computer-controlled automatic guided vehicles (AVG angels) in combination with sound, light and stage sets so that the funeral is not only solemn, but also modern, fashionable and cool. Museum Of Life’s value lies in the following aspects: Museum Of Life could save land resources and solve the conflict between the dead and the living who are scrambling for land – one Museum Of Life could store billions of Time capsules to meet the funeral demand of a city for one century. Museum Of Life could go beyond time and space to allow the whole family to be interred together and meet the emotional and psychological needs of the deceased for affiliation. Through the art of architecture, Museum Of Life creates not only an epically grand and ritualized space on a monumental scale, but also a solemn and respectful space look to meet the psychological needs of the deceased for the sense of personal dignity and social identity. The big data converged by the personalized information written by each deceased will bring an unprecedented diversified perspective to the recorded history, which will be favorable to the inheritance of human experiences, knowledge and thoughts. The gene specimen kept in Museum Of Life is not only a place in which the hope of resurrection is reposed and is also possible to help your descendants as well. It can allow your descendants to have an opportunity to trace their ancestors’ gene data to repair their genetic defects and, in the meantime, to look for the genetic drugs for some congenital diseases. Being compatible with all existing funeral and body disposal methods, Museum Of Life is a supplement or an alternative to the existing programs; moreover, having transferred their longing for a close relative to a Time capsule in which the relative’s gene specimens are stored, people would be more likely to accept a more ecologically and socially beneficial funeral way with no remains or tomb reserved, such as remains donation, resomation, sea-burial and tree burial. Museum Of Life’s business model is to provide ceremonialized gene conservation services and generate sustainable incomes oriented to the customers who seek for senses of emotional affiliation, being respected and self-actualization. As a social enterprise, Museum Of Life’s business model also lies in providing the public with a place to know, learn and think about death so that people can be prepared to face death – neither be terrified of living nor of death, by collecting, treasuring, exhibiting, transmitting and subsidizing researches of natural sciences and human studies such as life sciences, medicine, anthropology, genetics, epidemiology and life philosophy. All in all, Museum Of Life is practical and feasible at both technical and social psychological levels and has an opportunity to become an infrastructure of a city with a high population density in the future. Funeral steps: 1, Collect gene specimens into the gene specimen test tubes. 2, Put the tubes into the airtight container. 3, Rotate the airtight container mixed two-component sealant solidified to seal up the gene specimen. 4, Put the airtight container into the Time capsule. 5, Put the Time capsule into warehouse.What is interesting is that people can attend his/her own funeral in person when he is still alive.