Nic Monisse recaps highlights from the 10th iteration of Dubai Design Week, an event that continues to cement the city’s status as the region’s design hub. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is Monocle on Design, a show where we discuss everything from architecture and craft to furniture and fashion.
I'm Nick Monies.
On today's program, we're coming to you from the streets of Dubai where the most recent addition of Dubai Design Week has just taken place.
We're going to hear from a host of designers and creatives involved in the annual event.
All that coming up on Monocle On Design.
Hello, Nick Moniz here on the streets of Dubai, wrapping up and packing up the most recent iteration of Dubai Design Week.
It concluded over the weekend and the event featured 500 designers, brands and creatives from 40 countries who showcased their work that ranged from the practical to the experimental.
The aim, to push the boundaries of creativity and further cement Dubai status as the region's design hub.
To start today's show, we're going to visit one of the installations that was, I guess, installed in the Dubai Design district, a burgeoning neighbourhood of the city here.
Enfold was in place for the course of the week and it was the work of Dubai based multidisciplinary practice Diond.
The studio was founded by Ross Lovegrove and ila Colombo in 2023 and their intention with this project was to explore the potentials of new ways of building and making.
Crafted from corrugated cardboard, it had perforated walls allowing natural light to filter through, shifting in intensity as the sun moved across the sky.
To explain more, Ila joined me in the pavilion and started by telling me why she moved to Dubai.
I would say the number one reason is confronting the challenge of designing both architecture and design for this region.
We believe that when there is a need, you will succeed and there's a lot of need here.
First you could say the climate and climate change and rising temperature.
So it's a big challenge that can promote anything from material innovation to architectural innovation and just having a different approach to make everything smarter and more resilient and therefore promotes creativity in the way you think of anything.
So in this instance, the architecture that you see on the outside has a reason.
How do we play with the sunlight to create something that is soothing on the inside, but dimmed and also more comfortable?
All of these 945 trapezoid shapes, they have different inclination and shape for that particular reason.