Dubai Design Week doubled its dose of culture in the capital for its second ever showing. Featured in Al Quoz’s Alserkal Avenue was 'Circle Game,’ a multi-form work by Mary Ellen Carroll of two vast LED signs posing questions that are often asked among the city’s transient population: ‘When did you arrive?’ and ‘When will you return?’

去年，迪拜推出了自己的设计周，成为世界上最伟大的设计城市之一。围绕着一个全新的、占地1550万平方英尺的设计区(D3)-目前已经是其三阶段开发的第二阶段-本周承诺将把这座城市建成中东、北非及其他地区的创意之都。

现在，在第二年，迪拜设计周的规模扩大了一倍，从去年开始的一些成功的展览形式，如由六个不同的梅纳萨地区国家设计的一系列展馆，世界上最大的全球毕业生展和国际贸易博览会。此外，该展览还推出了一些雄心勃勃的新项目，其中最大的是一个新的私立非营利设计学校的大纲。

这所名叫迪迪(迪拜设计创新学院)的学校将于2018年秋季开学，由麻省理工学院(MIT)和帕森斯设计学院(Parsons School Of Design)联合开设以工作室为中心的课程。上周，在迪拜设计周全球毕业生展的大厅里，福斯特合伙公司设计的2.7亿澳元校园的规模模型被公布。

设计三月雷克雅未克展出了‘111’-一个由三个北欧国家的设计师制作的实验系列烛台：冰岛的Hugdetta，瑞典的Petra Lilja和芬兰的Aalto。

这个新的设计围绕着一个巨大的中庭建造，将鼓励各部门之间的合作，在10万平方英尺的范围内，容纳550名当地和国际学生。

在其他地方，“设计周”热衷于强调其吸引全球人才的能力，宣布建筑公司圣地亚哥·卡拉特拉娃(Santiago Calatrava)、扎哈·哈迪德建筑师(Zaha Hadid Architect)、福斯特合伙人(Foster Partners)和贝诺伊(Benoy)D3首席运营官穆罕默德·赛义德·阿尔谢(Mohammad Saeed Al Shehhi)解释说：“我们目前有30多个建筑实践，位于d3，但我们致力于确保加入我们的每一个品牌-从小型设计初创企业到标志性的全球品牌-都是位于我们建筑设计领域核心的成熟创意社区的一部分。”

Fadi Sarieddine的“迪拜综合症”街道家具是由钢筋和混凝土制成的。

有350多个创意合作伙伴已经在不断扩大的地区，当地的设计社区希望过去几年的发展将继续下去。阿联酋设计师扎伊纳布·哈希米(Zeinab Al Hashemi)说：“几年前，我们只有一个艺术场景，今天我们有一个艺术场景和一个设计场景，我认为在这之后，这个场景会不断扩大。”他为今年的活动与施华洛世奇合作，从事一项公共艺术安装工作。“现在有了势头，每个人都对此感到兴奋。”

Plans for a new private, non-profit design school were announced, with the unveiling of a scale model for the 100,000 sq ft, Foster + Partners-designed campus

In the centre of the design district, a glittering Swarovski crystal-encrusted public art installation by Emirati designer Zeinab Al Hashemi took centre stage. Titled Hexalite, the 1.5m high and 3m wide installation is composed of 33 hexagonal mirrored-steel structures with 1,145 Swarovski crystals and mirrored prisms

Mounted horizontally, the structures invite passers by to take a closer look through the installation like a kaleidoscope as the crystals reflect and refract the multicoloured light. ‘I like to create interactions within my public art and engage the audience so that they leave with a different experience than they would if they were just looking from a distance,’ Al Hashemi told us

In the centre of the city, the Burj Khalifa tower was lit up with a series of animated designs created by two regional design studios, Studio Mr White and Yusuke Murakami + Tangent. The light show, which took place every evening throughout Design Week, saw the tower enveloped in coloured bubbles of light, neo-cubist shapes, crystals, deep sea creatures, mountains, stars and city lights to name just a few

Graphic design studio Ape Creative showcased ‘Byahe’, an exhibition exploring the slowly dying craft of hand painted signage at art gallery FN Designs

The Global Grad Show returned for a second year gathering work from 50 leading design universities across 30 countries, making it the largest gathering of students and their work ever to take place

The show included a picnic set designed by Aalto University students to be manufactured in Finnish prisons...

... and RCA graduates Gabriella Geagea and Anne-Sophie Geay's wearable Shelter garment for refugees

Local architecture studio T.ZED worked with AHEC (The American Hardwood Export Council) to create a cocoon-like pavilion in the centre of the Downtown Design trade fair

Made from thermally modified American ash and American white oak, the louvred facade allows for privacy while also allowing light to filter through

Dubai chocolate brand Mirzam chocolate invited visitors into its Al Quoz factory for the launch of its first Mirzam design series. Working in collaboration with Emirati designer and photographer Sheikha Wafa Hasher Al Maktoum, Mirzam has created a spice route-inspired chocolate bar recipe with accompanying packaging designs that feature celestial galaxies, historical monsters and maps

keywords:Global Fair Guide 2016, middle eastern architecture

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