We Design Beirut ( May 23 – 26, 2024) is a platform dedicated to showcasing the very best of Arab and regional design. The event aims to celebrate and promote design and creativity through a rich and impactful  multidisciplinary program that aims not only to showcase the very best and most innovative design creativity and talent, but to also create a global dialogue on design and sustainability that will translate  to a network and eventually an ecosystem that would benefit everyone involved.        

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Craft is as old as human time, a practice which is deeply entwined in our daily lives and speaks for our unique place in the sentient world. There is a fundamental need in humankind to not only form functional objects using materials sourced from the local environment but to consciously create objects of decorative beauty. Archeologists have attributed finds of textile weaving to the Paleolithic Era as far back as 27,000 years ago, and pottery shards, stone tools, coins, jewellery and basketry unearthed at digs across the world reveal a great deal of information about these ancient civilisations.

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Wabi sabi is a worldview and philosophy with origins in Japan. It is a concept that embraces the perfection of imperfections, finding beauty in simplicity and experiencing the spiritual richness in what is. It is through this aesthetic that one is inspired to experience tranquillity, inner spaciousness, and harmony with nature.

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At its core, creative entrepreneurship is a marriage of introspective ideas with strategic actions. It is guided by sensory intuitions and executed with resourceful innovations. The goal is to bring together a community through imaginative solutions.

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When the mind explores the symbol, it is led to ideas that lie beyond the reach of reason." Carl G. Jung

If the environment determines the type of perception and this is the essence of graphic expression, then we understand why this actual art seems so remote to us. We live in a culture where science determines our perceptions of reality and not of the environment ...

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Berlin, the chic capital of Germany and vegan capital of Europe has something for all. With quaint cafes, independent designers and bookstores, and an underground music and art scene, Berlin could be a creative’s paradise. During my 3-month solo stay in Berlin, I stayed in four different neighbourhoods meeting different people each time, exploring subcultures that co-existed.

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As every year, this September, the London Design Week invaded the city. From one corner to the other was possible to breathe design on its various forms and shapes. London has been the place for designers and makers from all over the world to show their work and raise their voice to open new discussions about what is happening around us. Year by year the Design Week gets bigger and bigger but it never loses the aim of showing the matters and challenges that design is facing in different corners of the world and globally.

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Design and Craft collaborations at a micro-level has to lead to creating ecosystems that are dynamic and global, given birth to a luxury market and transparency in the supply chain

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Joanna Williams is a Creative Consultant from Los Angeles, who sources Textiles & Rarities from Around the World on her travels. She founded the Kneeland. co, a design concept studio and inspiration resource through which she works with leading design and interior brands on textile projects. We speak with her to understand her views on Indian textiles and it’s relevance in contemporary design culture.

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