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Dubai Design Week helps to place Dubai on the map as a leading design hub, shining the international spotlight on the city and its exciting design talent. (Supplied)
Local and international design enthusiasts and professionals are ready to converge in Dubai for its inaugural design festival.
On October 26, Dubai lays its claim to being one of the great emerging design cities of the world, as the very first Dubai Design Week kicks off across the city.
Showcasing the best of contemporary design from both the Middle East and across the world, the inaugural Dubai Design Week aims to cement the city's reputation as the design capital of the region, attracting professionals, aficionados and design-curious visitors to the city for a six-day celebration of ground-breaking ideas across a raft of creative platforms, spanning public installations, architecture, product, industrial and graphic design.
Conceived and managed by the Art Dubai Group, Dubai Design Week is held in partnership with Dubai Design District (d3) and is supported by the Dubai Design & Fashion Council and the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture).
d3's Chief Operating Officer, Mohammad Saeed Al Shehhi, says: "We are proud of our strategic partnerships with key local and global organisations across the design sector which collectively, aim to promote design in the region. d3, as a destination dedicated to design, is pleased to host the inaugural Dubai Design Week; it is our privilege to be able to share Dubai's vision for the design scene with its many visitors and participants - a vision embodied by d3. Together with our partners, we aspire to enable both new and well established designers, as well as artists locally and regionally, to thrive and succeed."
The first Dubai Design Week will seek to reflect the city's enormous potential by offering a level field for designers and design programmes from everywhere and all over the city; residents and visitors are invited to explore, discover and interact with a diverse and convention-puncturing programme of exhibitions, installations and events, with the newly developed creative hub d3 at the heart of it.
In addition, Dubai Design Week will produce a programme of talks and workshops giving UAE based designers unique access to insights from some of the leading players in the regional and global design industry, through a series of engaging talks, panels and workshops that will take place in d3.
Dubai Design Week centres on the third edition of Downtown Design to be held at d3, the region's fastest-growing design trade fair, which will bring more than 90 designers from 24 countries to present their pioneering innovations in furniture, lighting, bathrooms, kitchens, textiles and accessories. The fair has also partnered with six of the world’s leading Design Weeks (Helsinki, Istanbul, San Francisco, Mexico, Beijing and Melbourne) to bring their emerging designers to Dubai, thereby helping make Dubai Design Week a place of global discovery.
Accompanying the fair will be a packed calendar of public events and a host of cornerstone initiatives that offer insights into Dubai’s own creative energy and shine a light on the most remarkable developments in design thinking worldwide.
To find out more information on any of the Dubai Design Week programmes, visitors should go to the Dubai Design Week website www.dubaidesignweek.ae
About Dubai Design Week:
Dubai Design Week was established by Art Dubai Group in partnership with Dubai Design District (d3).
Dubai Design Week helps to place Dubai on the map as a leading design hub, shining the international spotlight on the city and its exciting design talent.
In addition, in the spirit of collaboration and mirroring the city's global outlook, the week also offers a platform for regional and international designers and brands.
The annual event encompasses culture, education and entertainment, spanning multiple disciplines of design, from graphic and product design to architecture and industrial design.
Coinciding with Downtown Design, the region's leading, quality-driven design trade fair, Dubai Design Week also includes key initiatives, such as: 'Abwab', 'Global Grad Show', 'Destination', and 'Iconic City'.
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