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2020/136/1 Memorial gravestone and urn, ‘End Cycle’, waste glass / waste textile from deceased person / NFC chip, designed by GibsonKarlo (Sarah Gibson and Nick Karlovasitis) in collaboration with Australian Research Council Laureate Professor Veena Sahajwalla and Founding Director of the SMaRT. Click to enlarge.

'End Cycle' memorial gravestone and urn

‘We wanted to look at not only the end-of-cycle for products, in this case garments, but at the end of the human lifecycle itself.’ Nick Karlovasitis

‘We envisage a time when microfactories will enable communities to create closed-loop circuits for recycling their own materials in small batches for local usage.’ Veena Sahajwalla

End Cycle explores the concept of death, the accumulation of worldly possessions and the implications for those left behind in an increasingly densely populated …

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Summary

Object No.

2020/136/1

Object Statement

Memorial gravestone and urn, ‘End Cycle’, waste glass / waste textile from deceased person / NFC chip, designed by GibsonKarlo (Sarah Gibson and Nick Karlovasitis) in collaboration with Australian Research Council Laureate Professor Veena Sahajwalla and Founding Director of the SMaRT Centre at the University of NSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2020

Physical Description

Gravestone comprised of a simple upright slab with a rounded top and circular hole at centre and oval shaped urn with lid.

Source

Credit Line

Purchased 2020

Acquisition Date

23 December 2020

Cite this Object

Harvard

'End Cycle' memorial gravestone and urn 2022, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, accessed 30 March 2023, <https://ma.as/606464>

Wikipedia

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