From Stone to Cloud : reimagining the cemetery in an age of digital memory

The project From Stone to Cloud reimagines the role of the cemetery in a time when our identities are increasingly dispersed across data, networks, and geographies. As people move more frequently, and traces of life persist digitally, traditional models of ground-bound mourning begin to lose relevance. At the same time, the growing scarcity of land further challenges the permanence of burial. Situated on Iona Island, where urban fabric dissolves into open horizon, the project proposes a shift from static monuments to a distributed system of remembrance. Mourning unfolds across multiple scales: as ecological return, as shared digital archive, and as quiet, personal continuity. Rather than isolating the physical and the virtual, the project extends across both environmental and digital fields, mediating between body and data, presence and distance. In doing so, the cemetery becomes an evolving field, one that acknowledges loss not as an endpoint, but as something carried, accessed, and transformed over time.