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Dubai’s leading creative event opens in strategic partnership with d3

Now in its 10th edition, Downtown Design
Week is an annual event which aims to connect local and international design communities

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The event features a curated selection of established and emerging brands, designers, and design studios

Dubai Design Week, the Middle East’s leading design platform, opens today at d3.

Dubai Design Week is a fundamental pillar in the emirate’s standing as the design and creative capital of the Middle East and a UNESCO City of Design. The free-to-attend programme that will run throughout the week includes exhibitions, pop-up events, discussions, hands-on workshops, and outdoor urban installations. This year’s Dubai Design Week will host its most ambitious and diverse programme to date and is set to welcome more than 500 designers, architects and creative practitioners from over 40 countries.

The anchor event of Dubai Design Week, Downtown Design, opens Wednesday 8 November. The leading fair for contemporary and quality design in the Middle East, Downtown Design brings together international and regional designers, architects, and design enthusiasts to showcase the latest trends and innovations in the design world.

The event features a curated selection of established and emerging brands, designers, and design studios
The event provides a space for networking, learning, and exploring design trends across the design industry through a programme of talks and masterclasses
The showcase celebrates the different executions and evolutions of design across its many disciplines, including furniture, interiors, architecture more
This year’s Dubai Design Week sees designers from across the globe come together to exchange ideas and demonstrate the positive impact that can be fostered through design, said Programming Director Natasha Carella
The event provides a space for networking, learning, and exploring design trends across the design industry through a programme of talks and masterclasses
Visitors to Design Week can explore over 25 large-scale outdoor installations realised with unconventional materials like palm leaves, loofah, sugar, paper pulp and cement alternatives
The d3-based Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation (DIDI) will host a series of engaging design workshops, student and designer exhibits and campus tours designed from 8 to 10 November for visitors 

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