Tashkeel continues to invest and support art and design professionals in the UAE

Tashkeel continues to invest and support art and design professionals in the UAE

- Tashkeel has selected 10 UAE-based artists and designers to spend the next year building their skills and knowledge through training, mentoring, research and the production of innovative and original works.

Dubai, UAE – While celebrating 15 years since its establishment in the UAE., Tashkeel has nurtured and elevated the talents and practice of designers and artists through its Tanween and the Critical Practice Programmes.

Tanween Design Programme

The mission of the Tanween Design Programme is to nurture the ongoing evolution of UAE design by providing one year of fully funded training for a cohort of specially selected professional designers. In 2023, the Tanween Design Programme enters its 10th edition. Having received 67 applications, 6 design practitioners were chosen: Wafa Al Falahi (UAE); Marwa Abdelrahim (Sudan); Maryam Elattar & Mohamed Elnaggar (Egypt); and Tia Sinclair-Kemp & Chinara Tashmatova (USA/Kazakhstan).

Over the next few months, they will embark on individual journeys to explore the cultural landscape of the UAE and, combined with their multidisciplinary backgrounds, will create functional, sustainable luxury designs.

Since 2011, Tashkeel has enabled 40 designers to embark on professional development training, leading to over 45 prototypes and resulting in over 30 furniture and lighting pieces inspired by, designed, and made in the UAE