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Six Things to Look Out For At Dubai Design Week

Dubai Design Week

Dubai Design Week 2017

The third Dubai Design Week has started and will take place across the city, with over 550 designers participating in a six-day celebration of ground-breaking design and ideas, free for all to attend.

William Knight, Dubai Design Week’s Head of design, said of this year’s event: “The line-up contains a hugely diverse range of content, enabling local and international visitors to explore the latest design trends and the ever-developing design scene within one of the most creatively ambitious cities in the world.”

Here are six things to look out for.

Abwab
Dubai Design Week

It gets its name from the Arabic word for ‘doors’, and the idea is to “take visitors on a design journey across the region and promoting its creative talent.” Organizers say that this year it will move away from installation-based conceptual work to present a curated and styled exhibition focusing on product design from across the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, all housed within a temporary pavilion structure built from old bedsprings and set up in the Design District.
14 to 18 November, 10am to 10pm between buildings 4&6, Dubai Design District

Iconic City: Loading… Casa
Dubai Design Week

Every year Dubai Design Week’s Iconic City exhibition explores the culture, art and design scene of specific cities in the Middle East and North Africa, and this year it focuses on Casablanca, Morocco. Curated by Salma Lahlou, ‘Loading… Casa’ is a simultaneous, non-linear experience, bringing together archival images, sound recordings, a short film, a monumental drawing and contemporary photography. The exhibition contains works by six contributors.
14 to 18 November, 10am to 10pm, Dubai Design District

Silent Call installation
Dubai Design Week

Khalid Shafar’s installation, Silent Call, is a chandelier inspired by the mosque and the beauty of the call to prayer. The chandelier features the silhouettes of the domes of five iconic mosques in five countries – Russia, Malaysia, Germany, UAE, and Denmark – and the kinetic light installation moves five times a day to adapt to each country’s time zone, synchronizing with the times of the five calls to prayer.
14-17 November, 10am – 10pm, Ground Floor, Building 7, Dubai Design District

Bearbrick exhibition
Dubai Design Week

The collectable Japanese toys get their own exhibition with various iterations of the vinyl bears on display. Artists have taken some of the “blank” bears and put on their own designs. It’s very Japanese and culty – in a good way – but quite good fun.
13 to 18 November, 9am to 10pm, Ground Floor, Building 7, Dubai Design District.

Weltformat DXB

Dubai Design Week 2017

A collaboration between Tashkeel, Welformat (a collective of graphic designers from Lucerne), Cairo-based designer Engy Aly and Mobius Design Studio’s Design House (with the support of Pro-Helvetia), this celebrates different poster trends in Switzerland and promotes the idea of the poster as medium in all its facets.
13 – 18 November 10am – 8pm Ground Floor, Building 5, Dubai Design District (d3) and Tashkeel, Nad Al Sheba 1

‘Prologue’ by Fredrikson Stallard
Dubai Design Week

Fredrikson Stallard (Patrik Fredrikson and Ian Stallard) and Swarovski have been working together for over a decade and this is the first time this piece has come to the Middle East.. The circular sculpture features over 8,000 topaz-colored crystals which shimmer as they reflect and refract the light, mimicking the iconography of the sun.
13-18 November, Dubai Design District

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