Dubai Design Week 2020 will ‘focus on the future’

The sixth annual Dubai Design Week will return to D3 this November 9-14, 2020.

The show will be a little different this year (what isn’t, really) with outdoor installations that comply with social-distancing measures. Owing to the fact that it’s rather hard for international designers to get to this year’s event, there is also a renewed focus on local artists – and those who have exhibited at the show previously.

Never been to Dubai Design Week? Here’s what last year’s event looked like.

Here’s what we’re looking forward to at this year’s Dubai Design Week.

Abwab
This exhibition has been a key part of DDW since 2015. It will involve a number of installations from around the region and beyond. This year, one pavilion has been commissioned and will be put toether by Iraqi designer Hozan Zangana. It will focus on the framework of a modern city, that extends out from a center point.

Outdoor installations
Apart from the main Abwab installation, D3 will be overtake with a number of other creative structures. So far Emirati designers Khalid Shafar, Aljoud Lootah as well as Hamad Khoory have signed on to produce exclisve works.

Downtown Design
The trade show will be both digital and physical this time around. The main exhibition will be the future-focused, ‘The Shape of Things to Come’ and will revolve around a multimedia display featuring conceptual work by architects and interior designers. Each will imagine how we will interact with our immediate environment over the months and years to come.

UAE designer exhibition and marketplace
Dubai Design Week will be championing home-grown talent this year, and letting a new generation of regional designers showcase their works and ideas. This curated exhibition will display works across furniture, innovative crafts, home accessories and jewellery. The marketplace will let visitors get up close and personal with the works, and potentially bring some of them home.

Dubai Design Week will run from November 9 – 14, 2020. The show will take place both physically at Dubai Design District, as well as online. You can follow along via this website.

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