sustainable creations at Downtown Design
Throughout Dubai Design Week 2023, the main design honest Downtown Design unveiled 4 sustainable creations from Tashkeel’s Tanween programme – an initiative rooted within the United Arab Emirates that helps and nurtures rising designers and creatives of their developmental journey. From November 8-11, these designs took the highlight, showcasing eco-conscious furnishings and lighting crafted by modern minds like Marwa Abdelrahim, Wafa Al Falahi, Chinara Darwish, and the collaborative duo Maryam Elattar and Mohamed Elnaggar. Amongst these displays was Chinara Darwish’s creation, The Alchemy Sequence, a eating desk that ingeniously repurposes 300 kilos of domestically sourced marine and building waste, akin to marine marker buoys, dredging floats, highway limitations, and water tanks. Darwish’s emphasis on sustainability and the utilization of reclaimed supplies aligns with this 12 months’s theme of accountable design, which noticed numerous modern expressions of biomaterial installations.
all pictures © Chinara Darwish
Turning 300 kilos of discarded waste into luxurious furnishings
Darwish Chinara (see extra right here) follows a course of that harmonizes creative creativity with scientific precision. She begins by accumulating plastic waste, understanding its origins totally. Subsequently, she engages in a way the place she experiments with colours, shredding, and heating plastic to create a particular colour palette.
Her methodology embodies a considerate mix of experimentation and expert craftsmanship, the place she transforms uncooked supplies into furnishings items. Chinara highlights the challenges she confronted to infuse recycled supplies with an essence of luxurious. ‘My largest problem was to make plastic look luxurious’ she defined. By way of her work, Darwish communicates a robust message of environmental consciousness whereas crafting a bit that celebrates the values of hospitality and household.
remodeling marine and building waste right into a practical piece of furnishings
Celebrating a Decade of UAE’s Inventive and Sustainable Design
Lisa Ball-Lechgar, Deputy Director at Tashkeel, mirrored on Tanween’s affect, stating, ‘With a decade of studying and a various assortment obtainable to collectors, our program has cultivated unique, sustainable items, showcasing our creativity and native manufacturing capabilities right here within the UAE.’ Tanween’s affect extends past design, supporting the UAE design neighborhood by the earnings of The Tanween Assortment gross sales, benefiting each previous and future Tanween Design Programme members. Since its 2020 version, Tanween has prioritized sustainability, illustrated by works from varied designers akin to Reema Al Mheiri, Huda Al Aithan, Sara Abu Farha & Khaled Shalkha, Nuhayr Zein, Khawla Al Balooshi, and Lina Ghalib. These designs make use of eco-conscious supplies like datecrete, leukeather, plypalm, fishscale molds, and ghaf wooden, sourced from the UAE’s setting in collaboration with native scientists and fabricators. By way of its decade-long journey, Tashkeel’s Tanween programme showcases the UAE’s dedication to fostering creativity, sustainability, and innovation within the realm of design.
activating a tactile expertise for the consumer
the eating desk celebrates hospitality and household
Chinara Darwish, sourcing the supplies from building websites
venture data:
title: The Alchemy Sequence
designer: Chinara Darwish
occasion: Dubai Design Week 2023 – Tashkeel‘s Tanween programme | @tashkeelstudio at @downtowndesignd
period: November 7 – 12, 2023
location: Dubai Design District, Dubai, UAE
christina petridou I designboom
nov 15, 2023
