Dubai Design Week 2021 champions local creativity and visions of the future

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There\u2019s a cultural moment heating up in the Gulf. Fashion house Valentino recently ventured east to take part in cultural exchange Qatar Creates in Doha, where new cultural hub M7 just landed, and a Virgil Abloh retrospective has launched at Qatar Museums. Meanwhile in Dubai, Dior celebrated the opening of...

that will continue to draw in an international audience until spring next year. The start of Dubai Design Week should now take things to sizzling point.

So what does Dubai Design Week bring? Now in its seventh year, there is a steer to make the programme appealing for all. ‘Dubai Design Week is a free-to-attend event and we ensure that there are activities for all levels of experiences, skills and ages,’ says director of Dubai Design Week, Mette Degn-Christensen.

to collectible design. Included are works by Borgi Bastormagi, Atelier Nadeen, Nathalie Khayat, Souraya Haddad, and Marylynn and Carlo Massoud, plus works from new creative platform Exil Collective that aims to promote budget-conscious designs that are made locally.Abwab 2021 winning architectural pavilion, ‘Nature in Motion’ by Ahmed El-Sharabassy

Abwab is an annual feature of Dubai Design Week that supports talent from the MENASA region, and features pavilions that respond to themes such as human senses and socio-political barriers. Fittingly for this pandemic recovery year, the inspiration for Abwab is regenerative architecture and restorative design.

Innovation and the power of design thinking often come from bright young talents, and each year Global Grad Show highlights this. For 2020, a spin-off concept, MENA Grad Show, was launched for locally curated projects from the Middle East and North Africa.

 

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