Dr Pia Interlandi is a design pracademic in the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University. Intersecting fashion and funerals, Pia addresses materials and materiality in relation to dress, death, decomposition and dispersal. Her doctoral research on textile decomposition in the context of natural burial has informed many of the guidelines for the materials that can be used within natural burial practices.  

Pia's current research explores the regenerative potential of emerging body disposal methods, such as alkaline hydrolysis and human composting. She is currently working with industry to map the materials that we take with us, their impact to what we leave behind, and what the matter of our bodies can become. 

Alongside AHFA, Pia is also a founding member of the Natural Death Advocacy Network, Order of the Good Death, and the Australian Death Studies Society. 

​This information session planned take place on Saturday 6-December 2025 from 9am to 11am AEDT

Registrations will open for this event closer to the date.