Chapter 12. A Museum: Stonehenge upgrade for Circle of Life
After making my first round of research in February a Memorium turned into a Museum.
Though my journey was focused on a remembrance and a Circle web-service for engaging people to capture and keep memories, in a whole Circle concept it is considered as a supplementary part with engaging goal “how to be a part of a Museum”.
In the beginning there were different variants how to visualize a building and what mission it should play. There were amazing variants with a heart (many thanks to Ivan Meshcheryakov), a cathedral, a castle and Stonehenge by Egor Sekirin.
After brainstorming with Egor and Alya Shipilova Stonehenge was shaped into Circle.
[WHY]
- It has a circle shape
- It’s origins were connected with burials
- it’s mystic and natural
- The columns are associated with family members
Circle of life Museum will be surrounded by nature: trees, water. Museum’s units have their own goals:
- Welcoming: reception, info center.
- Inspiring: public spaces with digital medium with stories, art exhibitions.
- Educational: workshops, discussions and events about death and life topics.
- Private: silent rooms for thinking; private rooms with digital medium for downloading a story and a family tree.
- Innovative: eco-friendly approaches and funeral innovations; preplanning.
In the center there will be a cafe surrounded by water — place to meet and talk, share the experience.
I suppose that digital medium in public and private rooms will not be locked-in one building. They can be integrated in other buildings on demand.
A life story in a Museum can be display during a life. A digital tree will be planted in stories of those who are gone and will grow as natural.
A building mission was shaped after a research made: the impact of art, nature and story on perception of death; trends in merging the physical & digital; celebration of life and innovative eco-friendly funeral approaches which are more cost-effective than traditional ones.
