Dubai Design Week 2022 returns with exhibitions at Downtown Design and the d3 Design District (until 13 November 2022), highlighting emerging talent and sustainable approaches
publishedDubai’s strategic position as a crossroads city – first as an important port along the historic Silk Road trade route and later on as a financial hub conveniently straddling Europe and Asia – meant that it has long been associated as a meeting place of cultures. However, Dubai Design Week 2022, which opened this week, largely spent its energy acquainting visitors with its own flourishing crop of homegrown talent.
For instance, an interactive pavilion by Stella McCartney demonstrated the development process from prototype to product of the brand’s. Or ‘From Dunes and Trees’ by UAE-based ARDH, a circular structure composed of bricks made from desert sand and date seeds, a product of the studio’s research into low-impact local materials.
'The younger generation of designers have been very inventive with their approach to sustainability,' said Dubai Design Week director Kate Barry. 'There are so many bright young minds in this region working to develop a more sustainable future. So in organising this Design Week, it was important to us to shine a light on their work.
The standout exhibition in the Downtown Design tent was the UAE Designers Exhibition, which profiled several up-and-coming UAE-based independent design studios. Curated by Cyril Zammit and set within a booth designed by Studio D.04’s Fatima Al Zaabi and Noora Al Awar, the exhibition comprised 20 original works.
Like the rest of the festival, it had a distinct focus on sustainability. For instance, designer Talin Hazbar presented a seating series composed of sea waste, including ropes dredged from the bottom of Dubai harbour, which was designed to benefit the Dubai Voluntary Diving team. Meanwhile, ANQA studio's collection, aptly titled ‘The Most Sustainable Furniture', employed plastic waste to create a series of furniture defined by its pink marbled surface.
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