Changeworker of the week #6: Giorgia Ferrante: Reimagining Death as a Space for Connection and Collective Learning

For Giorgia Ferrante, death is not only a personal event but a shared threshold, a space where memory, learning, and connection come together. Through her project Nanã Tales from the Threshold, she invites people to share stories and images of those no longer with us — transforming remembrance into educational and creative pathways that link personal grief to science, nature, art, and community life.

Giorgia’s work challenges the cultural silence around death, proposing that memory can be generative, a seed for empathy, learning, and transformation across time and space.

Through the #MyPieceForChange campaign, we invite people to share their unique contributions to collective transformation. This series exists to honor their stories, amplify their voices, and connect them with a wider community of like-minded peers. Today, we’re honored to introduce our latest Changeworker of the Week: Giorgia Ferrante, whom we had the pleasure of interviewing for this special spotlight.

What’s your piece for change? 

Through Nanã – Tales from the Threshold, I want to transform the way we approach death — shifting it from an unspoken end to a living space of connection, learning, and collective memory. The project launches a continuous call for narratives about those who are no longer with us, inviting people to share memories and images. These stories will not only be preserved, but transformed into educational and didactic pathways — linking remembrance to science, nature, art, and community learning.

What inspired you to begin this work or stay committed to it?

 The inspiration came from a deep awareness of how our society often isolates grief, leaving it in the private sphere and avoiding its presence in public life. Encounters with literature, film, and philosophical works — from Vinciane Despret to posthuman and ecological thought — convinced me that death is not only a personal event but also a social, cultural, and environmental threshold. I stay committed because every story shared through the call reaffirms that memory can be generative, becoming a seed for learning and transformation.

What’s one hope or vision you hold for the future?

I hope to help create a culture in which death is not feared into silence, but integrated into education, art, and environmental awareness. A future where collective remembrance becomes a shared ritual, and where the narratives gathered through the call live on as didactic and creative projects that strengthen our bonds with the living and deepen our care for the world we inhabit.

What support or connection are you currently looking for?

I’m looking for collaborations with educators, artists, illustrators, death workers, ecologists, and community organizers who are interested in integrating death education into broader cultural, environmental, and educational contexts. I also seek partners and platforms to help amplify the call for narratives internationally and to co-create the educational pathways born from them.

What’s one thing about your field or topic you wish more people knew, considered, or acted on?

That remembering is not just about preserving the past — it is an act of creation. Memory can recompose, reconnect, and even reanimate relationships across time and space. By engaging with death and remembrance collectively, especially through the sharing of personal narratives, we don’t only honor the dead — we create new spaces for learning, empathy, and action in the living world.

Where can people learn more about your work or connect with you?

Follow along on Instagram @nanathreshold

For collaborations, contributions, or to share a story, you can also reach me via email at [email protected]

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If Giorgia’s story resonates with you, reach out, share reflections, or co-create new possibilities together.

🌿 Thank you, Giorgia, for sharing your #PieceForChange and for helping reimagine remembrance as a bridge between grief, learning, and collective care.

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