Dubai Design Week occupies the Design District — d3, a purpose-built quarter on the creek — with commissioned installations, the Abwab pavilions showing work from across the region, a graduate show, and Downtown Design, the commercial fair at its centre.
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Its regional function mirrors Art Dubai's: the designers and studios shown come substantially from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, and much of the work does not appear at Milan or London.
November is the best month in the Dubai year — low thirties, dry — and the installations are outdoors across d3's squares, free and walkable after dark.
PlanningA November window in the Design District; the fair is ticketed, the installations are free.
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