DMC Applied Communications attends Doha Design Week

Mousharaka, the theme for Design Week means "collaboration". At the conference academics and practitioners spoke about how design is now considered a team endeavor where collaboration is crucial to achieve innovative results inclusive of cultures and mediums.

Designers are crossing boundaries and are participating in creative interdisciplinary teams addressing broad issues of communication, space, systems thinking, cultural identity, style and business.

In keeping with this theme of collaboration students and professionals from around the Gulf and the world met up and worked together in multi-cultural teams on design projects which were presented at the end of the conference.

Dubai Men's College students attended talks and workshops on: mapping the architecture, design and identity of contemporary Gulf cities, creative collaboration, creative design solutions to water conservation and extreme design thinking. The students worked in teams with scholars and students across design disciplines, cultures and regions to build bridges, raise awareness of the importance and benefits of collaboration, and create bonds necessary to achieve the full potential of design in the Gulf region.

Students also visited the newly opened Museum of Islamic Art in Doha a breathtaking building designed by the Grand Louvre architect I.M. Pei.