Throughout the week, the festival will showcase large-scale installations and site-specific interventions, bringing experimental approaches to architecture, materials, technology and craft across the public realm.

This year, Dubai Design Week will feature over 20+ installations with a focus on how design, science and technology can converge to reclaim materials of our past, as well as reimagined new forms that foster sustainable practices.

Urban Commissions:

NAO Architects | Three Gardens and a Room

Installations:

aestudio | InBetween What Was and What Will Be

Alter | Paying Field

Amity University | Roots of the Future

Arquitectonica | Peek, Pivot, Play!

Avid Learning ME x Dakhnii Diaries | Herding the UNHEARD: Traces of an Unwritten Language

BASE 39 | BASE39 Pavilion

Dubai Holding Entertainment | A Seat at the Table

in5 Design | Booth

Kart Group | Resonance

Nikken Sekkei x SOBOKUYA | CHATAI 2.0

Nordic Office Architects | The Pleated Garden

Palm & Palazzo Design Studio | BAYN

Rasha Saffarini | Taqleem

The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award 2026 - Noora Jabir and Moufida Mohideen | Everyday Artifacts

Trend Group | ROOTED

Zayed University x Collaborative Design Laboratory | ShadeForm