As the city's largest creative festival, Dubai Design Week, returns for its fifth edition from November 11-16, MOJEH gets the inside scoop from Rue Kothari, Director of Downtown Design.
Read on to discover how to navigate the week - from the most inspiring exhibitors and events, to shopping the forefront of cutting edge design - we have all the highlights.
Around d3, regular pop ups like Abwab the annual cultural exploration of regional design, will be joined by original exhibits including an evocative visual journey through the history of Kabul, presented by NGO Turquoise Mountain and haute horologists Rado, who return with a celebration of Le Corbusier – the epic design talent considered to be the Father of Modernism.
Elissa Brunato’s degree show for St Martins redesigned the sequin. Not as innocuous as it seems, as sequins are made from petroleum-based materials then often end up in the ocean, where they are consumed by marine life mistaking them for food. To reduce the threat, Elissa designed a Bio Iridescent Sequin made from naturally abundant cellulose, that’s light, strong and compostable, retaining the appeal of the sequin without posing a danger to wildlife.
