Design for VR - Project Showcase 2026

Anatomy of a Suicide

VR Quest Unity Room-scale-Movement Narrative

Team: Aman Kumar, Devavrat Chachad, Parimal Chahande, Aiman Aslam

Inspired by Alice Birch's 2017 play, Anatomy of a Suicide, is an inherited home shown through a narrative VR experience. Inside the quiet walls of an ancestral flat, three generations of women across time inherit a heavy feeling of isolation and grief. In the present day, the third generation of these young women sits alone in her room, struggling against the heavy thoughts of her family’s past and a fear of being abandoned. The house itself seems to provide the clues, holding onto the forgotten memories of the mother and grandmother who walked its halls before her.

Amidst the lingering grief and stories of the past, an old cassette player remains as a fragile connection across time. As voices from the past echo through long-lost recordings, faint glimmers of hope begin to emerge from the darkness. Echoes of resilience surface from previous generations, helping each generation hold on for a bit longer. To shift the course of an inherited tendency, the hidden messages within this house must be untangled before the cycle repeats itself.