Sculptural, architectural and experiential public installations by a handpicked selection of renowned international and local designers, artists and architects will be on display at strategic locations around the city, including the façade of the iconic Burj Khalifa and d3.
Dubai Design Week’s high-impact sculptural, architectural and experiential public installations have been created by a handpicked selection of renowned international and local designers, artists and architects and will be positioned at strategic locations around the city.
Three of the installations – hexalite, #EMO_DCI and Left Impression - will be on show at d3.
Swarovski expresses its growing support for art and design innovation in the UAE with hexalite [http://www.dubaidesignweek.ae/projects/installations-2016/hexalite/], a kaleidoscopic installation by Dubai-based conceptual artist Zeinab Al Hashemi who combines the sacred geometrical motif of the hexagon with Swarovski’s refractive crystal prisms. Visitors are encouraged to interact with their multifaceted reflections, exploring the connection with each other and the world around them.
Dutch Creative Industries, a trio of Dutch designers, present an interactive installation entitled #EMO_DCI [http://www.dubaidesignweek.ae/projects/installations-2016/emo_dci/] in a custom-made pavilion at d3 which explores how the senses of sound, scent and imagery inform our experience of space. The three-part exhibition will trigger different emotions and reactions for every visitor.
Local artist Latifa Saeed and architect Talin Hazbar re-interpret traditional Emirati ‘Majlis’, seating areas where family members and neighbours gather to socialise, with Left Impression [http://www.dubaidesignweek.ae/projects/installations-2016/left-impression/], a series of stools with distorted designs that challenge factory workers using a wheel-throwing process.
Further afield at the new Rove Hotel, Think Tank Co. from Jeddah has created Takki W Hakki [http://www.dubaidesignweek.ae/projects/installations-2016/takki-w-hakki/] a set of swing seats shaped like camel saddles which are suspended in a circle with headsets that play the same upbeat track simultaneously.
Two regional design studios have been commissioned to light up the iconic Burj Khalifa every night during Design Week. Studio Mr White, a design company founded in Toronto with offices in Dubai and Beirut, presents Mapping the Burj [http://www.dubaidesignweek.ae/projects/installations-2016/mapping-the-burj/], a series of stunning visuals that evolve from diagonal neon tubes revealing the contours of the building, to coloured bubbles of light, neo-cubist shapes, expressionist swirls, surreal cubes, and the shimmering gold of sunrise. Ascension [http://www.dubaidesignweek.ae/projects/installations-2016/ascension/] by Yusuke Murakami + Tangent is inspired by the rhythms of nature with pulses and geometric shapes that mimic magma, crystals, deep sea creatures, waves, sand dunes, mountains, stars and city lights.
Galeries Lafayette celebrates Design Week for the second year with Through the Lens [http://www.dubaidesignweek.ae/news/2016/september/galeries-lafayette-unveils-through-the-lens-installation/], a window installation by four innovative creators specialising in fashion, interior and urban design which is on show until November.