{"product_id":"arab-design-now","title":"Arab Design Now","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"document-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"rich-text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArab Design Now presents a survey of contemporary design from the Levant, the Gulf, and North Africa, featuring works across disciplines, from architectural installations and material research to contemporary crafts, furniture, graphic, and object design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication features works by the 74 exhibiting designers in the exhibition \u003ca class=\"link hover-text\" href=\"https:\/\/ranabeiruti.com\/projects\/arab-design-now\/\" title=\"Arab Design Now\"\u003eArab Design Now\u003c\/a\u003e, which was the headline exhibition for the inaugural Design Doha Biennale in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnderpinning many of the pieces in the show is an iterative and research-based process. For this reason, a selection of these dialogues have been transcribed and included in the publication in the form of monologues, providing important context to the works on display, and revealing the layers and nuances behind them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe constellation of works presented at Arab Design Now showcase the diversity of the region, but also serves to chart the commonalities and networks that tie us together as designers from the Arab World. This celestial metaphor, which has prevailed in ancient Arab cultures over centuries, provides a reading of the Arab World in which the idea of collective identity transcends simplistic ethnic or geographic boundaries, and instead relies on alternative approaches to mapping and defining commonalities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53333872869712,"sku":"LIT-DSGN-ARABDSGN","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/0034\/9776\/files\/shababik_arab-design-now_01.webp?v=1785946389","url":"https:\/\/www.shababik.shop\/products\/arab-design-now","provider":"Shababik","version":"1.0","type":"link"}