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This interesting-looking event by the Ripple Collective, a group of multidisciplinary designers and design-led retailers based in Abu Dhabi, has been running for four years now with little fanfare. It offers a day of \u201cthe things we love most: good people, good design, good ideas and the potential impact of putting them all together\u201d. So it’s not your usual design festival, either in scale or content; but it does look like a good chance to meet and share. It\u2019s free (preregister here<\/a>) and it will be a small group \u2013 which should be for the better, providing opportunities to interact and engage.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of concurrent sessions to chose from; note that some sessions have limited spaces and so need preregistration \u2013 we\u2019ve indicated those. The schedule:<\/p>\n

12.00 \u2013 12.50pm Slash Sessions: The Impossible Spaghetti<\/strong><\/span>
\nA \u201cfun and informative workshop\u201d that \u201cwill work towards the impossible\u201d: defining something that is simultaneously true and untrue … Slash, incidentally, is the strategic design studio at the heart of the Ripple Collective. RSVP here\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

1.00 \u2013 1.50pm Base Session: Adventures in AI<\/span><\/strong>
\nRipple folk talk about their design approach to AI and what happens when it goes wrong. A live build session will put it to the test.<\/p>\n

1.00 \u2013 1.50pm Fount Workshop: Doll Lab<\/strong><\/span>
\nA \u201cmessy but manageable creative session\u201d inspired by Alexander Girard’s Vitra dolls, scrap wood and colour to excite your inner child (and your actual child too if you want). Fount is a “curated concept store” that’s part of Ripple \u2026 RSVP here\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

1.00 \u2013 2.50pm Sadu Workshop: Craft in Action<\/span><\/strong>
\nAn introductory to traditional Emirati\/Bedouin Sadu hand-weaving. RSVP here\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

2.00 \u2013 2.50pm Talk: Shaikha Al Ketbi \u2013 Common Grounds<\/strong><\/span>
\nVisual artist Al Ketbi unpacks her four years in Japan \u2013 how it inspired her art, her work on the UAE Pavilion at the Osaka Expo, what cross-cultural creativity means in practice<\/p>\n

3.00 \u2013 3.50pm UncleNado’s Listening Lounge<\/strong><\/span>
\nA session for your ears and your eyes: the connection between good music and good album cover design<\/p>\n

3.00 \u2013 3.50pm Slash Sessions: Spill the Chai<\/strong><\/span>
\nBrewing karak has more to say about who we are than you’d think. This workshop is a space to listen, to brew, and to leave with something that stays longer than the taste \u2026 RSVP<\/a> here\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

4.00 \u2013 4.50pm Talk: Mohamed Dardiri \u2013 The Design\/Making Battle<\/strong> <\/span>
\nBringing design to life \u2013 the link between designing something and then actually making it<\/p>\n

4.00 \u2013 4.50pm Fabrica Workshop: Block Printing with Muge<\/strong><\/span>
\nMake prints, print prints, admire your prints (Fabrica is the industrial design and craftsmanship studio in the Ripple orbit). RSVP here\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

5.00 \u2013 5.50pm Talk: Music meets Design with Pho & Teenage Engineering<\/strong><\/span>
\nBehind the sound and design of Teenage Engineering, \u201cone of the world\u2019s coolest audio brands\u201d<\/p>\n

5.00 \u2013 5.50pm Fabrica Workshop: Block Printing with Muge<\/span><\/strong>
\nAnother session as above. RSVP here\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

6.00 \u2013 6.30pm break<\/p>\n

6.30 \u2013 7.15pm Talk: Is This Emirati? with Saleh (La Petite)<\/strong><\/span>
\nA conversation on contemporary Emirati design, the culture that inspires it, the expression it takes and the magic needed to bring it to life<\/p>\n

7.20-8.00pm Main Talk: The Long Way Home with Nuno Abreu<\/strong><\/span>
\nA talk from the main man of Slash, the design studio at the heart of Ripple, on building a contemporary design scene through scarcity, beauty, and the perspective gained from distance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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