Roxane Lahidji is a social designer whose practice explores how modest, overlooked materials can be transformed into objects and surfaces of unexpected refinement. Through material research and innovative applications, she questions conventional notions of value while engaging with the environmental, political, and economic dimensions of production. Her work seeks to reconcile beauty and responsibility, revealing the potential of low-cost resources through thoughtful design.

Rooted in local and renewable materials, Lahidji combines low-tech processes, traditional craft, and proprietary techniques to give raw matter new meaning and depth. Born in Paris in 1992, she studied at HEAR in Strasbourg before graduating from the Social Design department of Design Academy Eindhoven in 2017. Her acclaimed Marbled Salts project has received multiple FD100 VIA awards and the Bolia Award, with her work held by institutions including the Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and Design Museum Ghent.