DUS Architects is an Amsterdam-based architecture agency, who came up with a rather radical idea. Worldmoon is their call for a new purpose for the… yes, moon.
Why would we all want to spent our afterlife underground, or cremated – only represented by a stone on a graveyard? DUS Architects proposes to use the moon as an alternative graveyard. What if we would all send our ashes into space, and let it land on the moon, where the ashes function as a fertilizer. Theoretically, the ashes, together with the presence of water at the moon, should create a nutritious surface – or even an atmosphere. That means an extra planet for Planet Earth and all we need to do is send some more rockets that way.
And, since this faraway metropolis is formed by the ashes of every kind of world citizen, it cannot be colonized, nor claimed by anyone in particular. It is a new paradise, grown from the ashes of Earth’s ancestors, for everyone. DUS Architects compete with this idea for win the TEDxChallenge. How would you feel about this global necropolis?
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