Three Ordinary Funerals is a prototype funeral home for digital death commissioned by the 2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism and now part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea (MMCA).

This architectural piece explores alternatives to cremation and burial with the aim of bringing funerary rites back into the urban, domestic and everyday environment.

Three Ordinary Funerals is a funeral for one person and their three online avatars, imagining how commemoration and the disposition of remains could be atomized within a low-density residential neighborhood in Seodaemun district, Seoul. This project uses some existing means—such as the ways people mourn online and new technologies for the disposition of remains—to reverse the distance that modernity placed between death and daily life. Located in a hanok (traditional Korean courtyard house), the house is equipped with an alkaline hydrolysis liquid cremation system that makes it possible to fertilize a floating garden using the loved one’s remains. At the same time, a virtual portal archives and arranges the data uploaded by family, friends and followers, perpetuating over time the space of remembrance and mourning.