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The expanded programme includes the inaugural Innovation Conference and Dubai Evolution Challenge
150 forward-thinking projects from 100 universities are selected based on their power to make a difference
Exceptional students from the world’s elite educational institutions, including Harvard, MIT and RCA exhibit alongside students and universities from across the globe
Global Grad Show is curated by renowned author and designer Brendan McGetrick
Free to attend, it takes place November 13-17 at Dubai Design District (d3)
Dubai, UAE: Held in partnership with The Investment Corporation of Dubai, Global Grad Show 2018, a key event of Dubai Design Week, unveils this year’s programme including the main exhibition featuring 150 life-changing inventions by the next generation of designers from across the globe. New to this year’s event is the Innovation Conference which looks at creativity in the age of artificial intelligence and automation. Another first is Dubai Evolution Challenge bringing international and UAE students together.
The Global Grad Show exhibition showcases forward-thinking ideas selected based on their power to accelerate change and improve lives. The designers themselves will present their ground-breaking prototypes, selected from over 1,000 entries – the largest to date. The exhibition will showcase work from 100 universities, including elite universities such as Harvard, MIT and RCA alongside equally innovative projects from institutions from emerging markets and around the world. Regular participation from established geographies such as Western Europe, USA, and China is complemented this year with representation for the first time from Chile, Hungary, Jordan and Pakistan.
The projects have been selected and curated by renowned author and designer, Brendan McGetrick whose work has appeared in publications in more than thirty countries. McGetrick has also published six books including Urban China: Work In Progress and in 2017 curated California: Designing Freedom at the Design Museum in London. The four guiding principles of the selection process are: innovation that transcends technology; equality without hierarchy amongst universities, regions and designers; universal design open to all users; and impact on the world at large.
“Global Grad Show is not only a showcase of ideas from the brightest young minds around the world, it’s a celebration of creativity and optimism.” McGetrick explains. “Graduates today are faced with daunting truths such as climate change, automation, and mass migration. Each of these projects offers a restorative solution; an idea of how to make human-scale changes with the hope of bettering humankind as a whole.”
Mr. Douraid Zaghouani, Chief Operating Officer at Investment Corporation of Dubai commented: “The Investment Corporation of Dubai and the Global Grad Show will work together to instil a culture of innovation amongst the global youth, with the determination to create a better and sustainable future for all. Underpinning this ambition,” he continued, “is Dubai’s position as a global enabler of forward-thinking youth, and a facilitator of innovation and design.”
‘Belief in AI’, the inaugural Innovation Conference, takes place on 12 November and is curated by Ben Vickers, CTO of the Serpentine Gallery and Kendrick McDowell, Director of AI at Google. The conference will take a look at the opportunities presented by emerging technologies and creativity combined. It will investigate the role of Artificial Intelligence in the future of creativity, education, art, and spirituality.
Also taking place for the first time this year will be the Dubai Evolution Challenge, overseen by Tuuli Maria Utrainen from the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). International and UAE based designers will team up to create a future evolution of everyday objects, activities or services that they discover in Dubai.
Owned and managed by the Art Dubai Group, Global Grad Show is supported for the first time by Investment Corporation of Dubai which plays a key role in positioning Dubai as a global enabler for forward-thinking youth and a facilitator of innovation and design underpinned by a determination to create a better and sustainable future for all.
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