Installations produced for and during Dubai Design Week have always been a core and crucial site of attraction and component of the annual festival gathering significant attention and interaction from visitors around a specific idea.

This year’s thematic approach focuses on subjects of responsible design geared towards positive impact where smart design and functionality go hand in hand to serve a purpose or solution to the fast-paced changes occurring in the current urban environment and the new challenges arising from physical distancing.

D3 partners are encouraged to apply as Individuals or collaborating with other d3 creatives to put forward functional, modular and purposeful proposals of semi-permanent, sustainable public space interventions with the intention of producing a body of work offering concrete proposals to be later replicated contextually in real scenarios.

The selected proposals, by the curatorial board, will be awarded a production grant up to 20,000 AED by Dubai Design Week to produce the installations. The grant covers the design and production supervision and management fee of the applicants.

Key considerations:

  • The public interventions will propose functional solutions for issues facing cities today and the challenges arising from social distancing, proposing solutions for problematics related to the changes occurring in the urban environment.

  • Designers are encouraged to use materials that are sustainable or sustainably sourced (recycled, up-cycled etc..) to ensure non-excessive production and prioritizing concepts that are semi-permanent, could be repurposed or have an afterlife, in d3 and around the city.

  • The public interventions could be a joint project between several designers or with private and public entities collaborating with local designers.

  • The installations need to be critical and offering innovative ideas on transforming the future with adaptable ideas and concepts that are not rigid, think modular.

  • Proposals that are purposeful and can be adopted by either the public or private sector where sponsors and brands could be encouraged to adopt them and reproduce them.



For further information, please contact [email protected].