Malta Wins First Place at the London Design Biennale with 'URNA'

Malta wins first place at the London Design Biennale with 'URNA'

A Maltese installation about cremation won first place at the London Design Biennale 2025 from among 50 exhibitors from around the world.The installation, titled URNA, marked the second time Malta participated in the Biennale.“URNA has a culturally significant theme and message that revolves around the concept of managing human remains and artistically anticipates the adoption...

Malta’s URNA Turns Heads Globally With Bold Rethink Of Death At The London Design Biennale

Malta’s national entry at this year’s London Design Biennale has captured international attention, with glowing features in Wallpaper, The Spaces, and The Double Negative. The installation — titled URNA — is a poetic and radical reimagining of how we honour the dead. On display at Somerset House until the end of June, URNA invites visitors to confront mortality through a Maltese perspective, shaped by ritual, community, and stone. It’s a powerfu…

Dust to Dust: Reimagining death in a Maltese quarry

URNA, Renders. Courtesy Of URNA, Malta At the bottom of a Maltese quarry, a radical rethinking of death and memorialisation takes shape. URNA, Malta's powerful contribution to the 2025 London Design Biennale, proposes a collective, ego-free future for remembering the dead — where limestone dust becomes legacy, and grief transforms into geology. Art and design, by their very nature, can transport you somewhere — usually emotionally, sometimes spi…