The future of urban mining: Salon hair waste as a material for the built environment

a collaboration between  

Green Salon Collective @greensaloncollective

 Pareid Architecture @pareid.architecture  

Gina Conway Salon & Spa @gina_conway_aveda  

London Design Festival @l_d_f_official  

 #LDF22 

  London Design Festival 2022,  17-25 September 

 Gina Conway Salon & Spa  

62 Westbourne Grove, W2 5SH 

 Somewhere between a sculpture and a piece of architecture, this installation invites the public to engage with hair "waste" both visually and tactically. It is strategically located inside a salon, the very setting from which it is "mined", confronting the public with new possibilities on what is generally considered waste.  Can cut and discarded human hair be intelligently intercepted from the waste stream? If so, what potential applications are there for this naturally recurring human grown product? And can we eventually recalibrate our relationship with these rejected follicles, turning it from waste, past a utilitarian object, and instead into something we affectionately value? 

OFFICAL LAUNCH EVENT 13 SEPTEMBER 2022

Members of the press and public were invited to our official opening evening party where all collaborators were present to share their journey of developing the concept through to building the three metre high installation.

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GREEN SALON COLLECTIVE

A circular waste disposal business serving the hair and beauty industry, offering education on sustainability, carbon offsetting, chemical waste elimination and research. 

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PAREID ARCHITECTURE 

An architecture and urbanism design studio founded by Déborah López and Hadin Charbel that operates through the search and approximations between interdisciplinary fields across multiple time scales.

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GINA CONWAY SALON & SPA 

Awarding winning, high end Aveda lifestyle salon and spas with locations in Notting Hill, Fulham, Poole, Wimbledon and Winchester.

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LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2022 

The 20th anniversary edition of the festival which celebrates and promotes London as the design capital of the world.

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