Software that simulates the growth of salt in various conditions has been created by Henna Burney and Kalijn Sibbel of Atelier Luma to help designers make use of the material in their own projects.
Developed in collaboration with algorithmic design studio Abnormal Design, the software allows users to visualise and better understand the crystallisation process that occurs in salt flats.
It was developed off the back of a four-year-long design project by Burney and Sibbel with design and research laboratory Atelier Luma, involving exploration of the Camargue marshes in southern France to find new uses for the salt that is produced there.
Atelier Luma has designed a software to visualise the salt crystallisation process
The software is being introduced today by Burney as part of her guest editorship for Dezeen 15, a digital festival celebrating Dezeen's 15th birthday. As part of the event, Burney will speak to Dezeen's editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs in a live interview to explain why she and the studio believes salt is "a material of the future".
"This will be a tool for designers to start using salt as material and to conceive projects with it," Burney told Dezeen.
"Using the crystallisation process requires somehow a particular way of thinking as salt is a growing material," she added.
It is intended to be used to create a variety of objects
"The tool will make this process simple and more accessible," continued Burney. "This will p...