Pia Interlandi

Dr Pia Interlandi is a design pracademic in the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University. Intersecting fashion and funerals, Pia explores materials and materiality in relation to dress, death, and decomposition. Recent work, ‘Rituals of Obsolescence’, speculates a circular system for death rituals on Mars, intertwining life and death through a symbiotic silk production cycle.

Through her practice, Garments for the Grave, Pia designs rituals for facilitating dressing, and addressing the dead body. She co-designs garments with the terminally ill and dresses them with family for their funerals.

Exhibited at MoMA (New York), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), and the Science Museum (London), most of her work is in graves across Australia and the UK. A founding member of the Order of the Good Death, Natural Death Advocacy Network and Australian Death Studies Society, Pia has spent over a decade advocating for creativity at end of life.