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Dubai is not just skyscrapers and shopping, it's also a city where design is celebrated in late October, with Dubai Design Week. Not only that but the Dubai Design District aka d3, a highly innovative hub based on the principles of sustainability, is being built and slated for completion by 2019, at the service of creative industry.
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To draw attention to Dubai Design Week in the urban fabric of Dubai, which surrounded by all the breath-taking towers risked passing unobserved, 12 installations by a handpicked selection of renowned designers, artists and architects from United Arab Emirates and the rest of the world were positioned at strategic locations around the city. So, 12 site-specific works were created expressly for Dubai Design Week and their narrative is all about forging ties with the places, aiming to drive users towards active engagement with their surroundings.
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This was not just a temporary artistic decoration of squares and avenues; the basic idea draws on the great communicative potential of art, in order to encourage users to see themselves as active parts of the complex macrocosm of an ultra-modern city, in this case built in the desert and where everything seems to have been designed around the use of cars. A strong sign, both in terms of visual impact and content, which ranges from multimedia to material, from interaction to recycling.
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Here is a full list of the installations and their creators: LOVE PROJECT, Designer Guto Requena; UNTITLED (ARCHWAY), Designer Anjali Srinivasan; LOT36587, Designer Raudha Al Ghurair; FRAGMENTS OF ‘NOW’ – REFLECTIONS OF THE IMMEDIATE PAST, Designer Yohei Iwaki; SOUNDWEAVING, Designers Zsanett Szirmay and Bálint Tárkány-Kovács; DETRITUS WALL, Designer Ali Al-Sammarraie; LUZ, Designers Bahar & Sawsan Al Bahar; DECONSTRUCTING ZONE, Designer Henrique Stabile presented by Coletivo Amor de Madre; NERVOUS STRUCTURE, Designers Cuppetelli and Mendoza; YAROOF, Designer Aljoud Lootah; EARTH HIVES, Designers Latifa Saeed and Talin Hazbar; SCAFFOLDING/ TRUSS, Designer Zeinab Al Hashemi.
Christiane Bürklein
Dubai Design Week,
from 26 to 31 October 2015
Dubai, UAE
Links: http://www.dubaidesignweek.ae/projects/installations/
Images: Courtesy of dubai design week