AP Valletta participated in the first edition of designMT themed "Where tradition meets innovation’’, with the installation "The Myth of Abundance": adapting the structure of the cabinet of curiosities both as a conceptual framework and as an actual display, the project exhibited a multidimensional journey through historical artifacts, natural specimens, and cultural symbols that reveal the island’s complex relationship with its most precious resource, water.

Aside from the southern Spanish turn of phrase, ‘salero’ also directly translates to ‘salt’ or that which contains salt. Both meanings resonate with the proposed public pavilion – an inhabitable object that re-imagines the salt pans of San Fernando through new geometrical purity.

Our proposal for the competition that Arts Council Malta launched earlier this year, for their installation at the London Design Biennale.
‘Follow the water’ is a reaction to the imminent water crisis that Malta and many other countries have to urgently tackle. By working with the existing water element in the square and re-interpreting its grid in a playful yet sober manner, the proposal expresses the transformative and communicative power of design while responding to the radical social and environmental changes at the core of the brief.

IDE is the design of portable house combining sustainable concepts with high standards of domestic design.