In our quest for new materials, we have overlooked abundant natural resources such as salt, writes designer and researcher Henna Burney of Atelier Luma in her manifesto for the Dezeen 15 digital festival.
"The future will be built with materials that are both new and old," writes Burney in her manifesto. "Salt is a material of the future: an essential life-supporting mineral, ancient in its uses and abundant as a resource."
Alongside her manifesto, Dezeen is publishing projects by Burney including cladding panels made from salt and software that could help other designers to work with the material.
The Dezeen 15 festival features 15 contributors presenting ideas that could change the world over the next 15 years. See the full line-up of contributors here.
A Manifesto for Salt
The future will be built with materials that are both new and old. Salt is a material of the future: an essential life-supporting mineral, ancient in its uses and abundant as a resource.
Natural but overlooked materials such as salt have extraordinary potential. We only need to look around with fresh eyes, rediscover lost knowledge and chart new ways of thinking about materials and their ecosystems.
The Salt Crystals project at Atelier Luma uses salt in innovative ways that chart a different way of thinking about materials and their ecosystems.
Salt is essential for human life and preserves local ecosystems
At Atelier Luma, we know that salt has been firmly embedded in local and ...