child remains- an immersive conversation about grief
The master project child remains is a collaboration between the museum Lilla Änggården and HDK-Valand student Gabriella Di Feola. The project explores how a designer can open up conversations about grief at Lilla Änggården and how a museum can be a public space for grief and mourning.
child remains takes its starting point in the Grén family, who lived at Lilla Änggården during the 19th century. The project lifts parts of the depictions of the family that are less visible in the storytelling. The family does not talk much about the experience of losing three of their children and there are few stories preserved about these children. In the absence of stories, what is there to tell? This exploration is combined with making room for contemporary experiences of child loss through Di Feola’s experiences of losing a daughter as well as other parents’ experiences of child loss.
