Cemeteries can be more than simply a place to bury our dead and mourn, but also a place of educational value and cultural growth. The Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol filled the role of a community park and offered activities such as yoga lessons and walking paths. Then they added technology and created an interactive way for visitors to honor the dead, which resulted in Future Cemetery. Future Cemetery utilizes multimedia to create an interactive environment, including projection, audio, guided tours through phone applications, and live reenactments. View a video of Future Cemetery’s use of technology here.
See Plus Aziz, How Will we Mourn the Dead in the Future?, PSFK, Sept. 16, 2014.
Special thanks to Brian Cohan (Attorney at Law, Law Offices of Brian J. Cohan, P.C.) for bringing this article to my attention.
