Intersecting fashion and funerals, Dr Pia Interlandi explores materials and materiality in relation to dress, death, and decomposition. Through her creative practice research, Garments for the Grave, she designs rituals for facilitating dressing, and addressing the dead body. This practice encourages audiences to consider what they will wear in death, initiating their own end-of-life plan. Pia also works with the dying to co-design a final garment and then supports their families to dress their body in personalised ritual for the funeral.

Harnessing a toolkit of skills that combine tacit and explicit knowledge bases, Pia intermeshes scholarly and professional practice, interlacing personal reflection, community engagement, and the rigor(mortis) of academia.

Dr Pia Interlandi has recently relocated to Perth, Western Australia to undertake a new academic appointment as Associate Professor of Creative Practice in the School of Design and the Built Environment at Curtin University.