The second week of the Dezeen 15 festival saw Space Popular demonstrating a new type of portal for the metaverse while Henna Burney celebrated salt as a material for the future.
The festival will see a total of 15 creatives present ideas for how to change the world over the next 15 years. Running from 1 to 19 November, it will feature a different manifesto and live interview each weekday. See the line-up here.
Read on for some of the highlights of the second week:

Above: Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg photographed by Anna Huix. Top: the duo demonstrate their concept for metaverse portals
Space Popular predicts "three-dimensional version of the internet"
Day six: in their manifesto, architects Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg of Space Popular proposed using curtain-like gateways to allow people to move between virtual worlds. "What's coming is a three-dimensional version of the internet," they said in a live interview with Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs.
"By 2050, all media will be spatial," they said. "We will no longer have smartphones or laptops and monitors and screens like this. Even watching a sitcom will be done in immersive digital environments."
However, this emerging 3D metaverse will require new types of spatial design to help people find their way around.
Space Popular has proposed using curtains as a metaphor. People would use a swiping gesture to pull back their current environment and reveal the one t...