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What Defines Dubai’s Design Aesthetic?

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作者：Dubai Design Week 来源：Dubai Design Week

2019-03-01 16:51:27 3715 0 0

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Strolling through Dubai’s Design District is both a feast for the senses and a journey across the globe. During the fourth edition of Dubai Design Week, the city’s annual design fair, last November, one could just as easily encounter the meditative strains of traditional Gulf fishing songs as walk into a Vitra furniture exhibition. Amid such diversity, it’s not so easy to pinpoint what exactly embodies Dubai’s contemporary design approach.

“I’ve been asked how I would describe Dubai’s design aesthetic a few times before, and every time, I discover a new answer,” says Rawan Kashkoush, creative director of Dubai Design Week. “It’s unfair to create a sweeping statement about its aesthetic, because there’s such a diversity of creative cultures living here.”

Aesthetic cross-pollination is, in part, a function of Dubai’s population. Only 17 percent of its three million inhabitants are of Emirati descent. The remaining 83 percent accounts for foreign-born workers from countries as far-flung as Bangladesh and the U.K. By 2027, with the population predicted to balloon to nearly five million, that divide is expected to grow even larger.

This cultural melding has prompted a productive exchange of knowledge between well-heeled locals and expats, which, according to Kashkoush, has permeated Dubai’s design community. It’s also encouraged the promotion of Dubai craft-making techniques abroad: Because resources in the desert are limited, it’s common for designers in Dubai to commission their manufacturing overseas.

Such fluidity creates a unique design feedback loop, observes Kashkoush: “Let’s say you have a wooden joint for a chair that was made by a Scandinavian artisan. That joint is then offered to a Japanese designer who has been living in Dubai for four years, and then that joint suddenly shows up in a design by someone who has been here their whole lives,” she explains. “That transfer of information in the industry is what’s so Dubai.”

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