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AAD EDIBLE SUMMITS

Thu, Nov 13    6:30pm

What if the world got saltier?

Salt Archaeologies is an edible installation that stages dining as an intimate bodily experience tied to the only rock we eat: salt. Salt runs through air, soil, and water. It is the substance of our tears, our blood, and our sweat. The climate crisis, along with industrial and extractivist processes, is redistributing it where it shouldn’t be. The world is getting saltier, and it’s happening very fast.

We invite you in a saltier world abundant with halophil organisms, like the one that existed billions of years ago: the purple Earth. Like the one humans are slowly recreating, the one we will have to survive in. In this speculative world, food and shelter are made of the same substance. Structure’s demolition is seasoning; seasoning is a structural material.

We ask how far does salt travel in scales, territories and time—from body to air, from mineral to wall, from ocean to table—to reach our tongues. What kinds of labour are involved in the process? How do sodium chloride’s properties blend with salt’s cultural and spiritual connotations? We invite you to taste, to drink, to touch, to inhale and to embrace your halophil selves.

What kinds of food, species and architecture would survive in a saltier world?




Students: Georgios Koltiris, Shannon Shiraz Levkovitz, Valeria Ramirez, Julio Viejo, Vasiliki Zochiou

The AAD Edible Summits is an initiative by the MS Advanced Architectural Design program.