Crystals have long fascinated humankind with their precise, reflective and timeless nature. Crystals, Baby! explores salt-grown crystals as the basis for a material-driven lighting object.
A transparent acrylic body rests in a salt solution under controlled conditions.
Over days, a reflective crystalline layer forms on its surface.
It is self-supporting and softly catches the light, like ice or glass, yet made of salt.
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We Will Design 2026 — HELLO, DARKNESS embraces design as a tool for subverting hierarchies and weaving together ecologies and technologies to imagine the cities and societies of the future.
It is an invitation to recognize the abyss — political, ecological, aesthetic — we’re living in, not as a place of fear, but as a space of regeneration, resistance, and imagination. Darkness here is not absence, but a fertile condition that embraces invisible gestures, marginalized knowledge, and luminous forms of resistance.