The UAE Pavilion calls upon multiple designers individually and collectively, every project is a reinterpretation of a memory, of a game, of something that we held [...]

Pavilion Title: All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy

The UAE Pavilion calls upon multiple designers individually and collaboratively, every project is a reinterpretation of a memory, of a game, of something that we held as children in a playground while imagining stories and running with make-believe friends. The results tackle elements of play as transitory experience hoping to bear an impression, summon participation and invite sensory stimulation.

The varied experiences housed in the UAE pavilion share time and timelessness, whether in handcrafted silhouette stories, through amplified sounds of a universal game, in the digital reflections that straddle future and past, or in the studies of temporary play spaces, all will result in everlasting impact.

Curator: Mobius Design Studio

Möbius Design Studio is based in Dubai. With a long-standing passion for visual communication, its founders, Hadeyeh Badri, Hala Al-Ani and Riem Ibrahim, balance studio initiated research and commissioned work.

Designers:

Afra Bin Dhaher is a communication designer and visual artist, Afra’s creative practice involves informing viewers, translating experiences and portraying emotions.

Architecture + Other Things, a collaborative and interdisciplinary platform, was co-founded by Faysal Tabbarah, Khawla Al Hashimi and Nada Taryam.

WTD Magazine is an architecture and design magazine where the space maker, the detail enthusiast, the cynic, the idealist and the indecisive initiate a conversation.

Ammar Kalo + Michael Jake Newsum. A teacher and director of CAAD Labs at the American University of Sharjah, Ammar’s area of research includes developing new robotic fabrication processes and material design investigations. Newsum is the robotics lab coordinator at SCI-Arc. His current work focuses on developing human machine interfaces, as well as consulting to help make technology approachable for designers.

Supported by Tashkeel

A major Dubai Design Week initiative, Abwab is a series of six pavilions built to celebrate and showcase the work of the most exciting designers, studios and curators from six different countries in the MENASA region.

Abwab, which means ‘doors’ in Arabic, acts as a direct portal to the region’s local design talent. A curator from each participating country leads the designers to generate never before-seen design content under one unifying theme, this year being - Games: The Element of Play in Culture.

26 October | 5pm - 9pm
27 - 30 October | 9am - 9pm

Open areas, Dubai Design District (d3)