Tanween design programme participants combine traditional materials and techniques with a contemporary outlook.
At the Downtown Design 2020 Digital Fair and onsite at d3 during Dubai Design Week this year, ‘Tanween by Tashkeel’ featured three new pieces conceived and produced by talented UAE-based emerging designers that include product designer Lina Ghalib, architect Neda Salmanpour and interior designer Nada Abu Shaqra as part of the rigorous 2020 edition of the programme.
This year, participating designers aimed to achieve an equilibrium between sustaining their practice along with shifting and re-imaging design that is more adaptive, resilient, conscious and utilitarian.
Developed through analysis of existing design language embedded in the built environment and inherited objects around us, Qaws by Neda Salmanpour is a suspended lighting fixture made of brass, 3D-printed PLA plastic with a concrete finish.
Made of Plypalm, wood, stainless steel and leather, Lina Ghalib’s arish bench-seat Yereed is inspired by those who have survived and thrived in hostile environments.
Whilst Hisn by Nada Abu Shaqra is a chair inspired by the UAE vernacular architecture, is made of terracotta, powder-coated steel and upholstered fabric.
To find out more about Tanween by Tashkel's physical exhibition at Dubai Design Week 2020, please click here.
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