[Webinar] INDEX Design Talks Online: "The Rebirth of the Creative Industry"

INDEX Design Talks Online: "The Rebirth of the Creative Industry"

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For this first edition, Paul Bishop, Patricia Millns FRSA, Waleed Shaalan, and Esra Lemmens will be exploring how each other’s work is responding to the current environment and how this period may alter key aspects of the way that we conceive, create and interact with design.

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Presenters

Esra Lemmens

Design Consultant, The Esra Lemmens Agency

Esra Lemmens is the founder and director of her namesake, The Esra Lemmens Agency. After receiving degrees in Fine Arts and Design, she focused on developing her career path while collaborating with other designers. She has concentrated on a growing phenomenon in the design world, distilling her own philosophy, which came to life in her book titled ‘Conceptual Commercialism Commercial Conceptualism’.

While receiving various degrees in the field of design, Lemmens, was quick to observe the many challenges that designers faced on their path to becoming talented visionaries with their own profitable design practice. Determined to tackle these issues, she discovered a grey area, and was focused on supplying what was needed by bridging the gap between the business and design world. Armoured with an ability to transform a vision into a long-lasting and impactful mark in the world of design with a little direction, she founded The Esra Lemmens Agency.

Patricia Millns FRSA

Artist

Patricia Millns FRSA is an artist, advisor and mentor. She holds a BA Hon Fine Art and MA Art and Design History. Studio based in Middle East for nearly 40 years her practice is based on identity defined through cultural significance of adornment and olfactory heritage of the region.

Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Art London, Advisory Boards of AUD, Zay Initiative and member of IAPA, UNESCO.

Represented UK at United Nations, Sharjah and Cairo Biennials. Public Collections include the UN UNIFEM, British Museum, British Council, British Commonwealth Society, Windsor, Bulgari, Salsali and Sainsbury collections, and National Collections regionally.

Her works are in private collections regionally and internationally.

Paul Bishop

Owner, Bishop Design

Founded by Paul Bishop in 2004, Bishop Design L.L.C. has continuously completed projects across the entire MENA region as well as internationally. An excellent and award-winning portfolio of Commercial, Hospitality, Retail and Residential projects have been secured through recommendation, referral and repeat business – a true endorsement of the company’s abilities. The success is mainly owed to the dedication and personal touch that is applied to each and every project executed.

Bishop Design LLC has received over Sixty awards both regionally and internationally including being named the Interior Design Boutique Firm of the Year at the Commercial Interior Design Awards for two consecutive years where, according to the judges, the success of the diverse range of projects illustrates the powerful grasp Bishop Design LLC has on the regions interior design industry.

Waleed Shaalan

Design Director, AFALULA

Waleed is currently working with the French Agency for AlUla Development between Paris, Saudi Arabia. The French Agency’s mission is to support its Saudi partner, the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), in the transformation of the AlUla region into a worldwide cultural and touristic destination. Prior to working with AlUla Waleed was the Design Director for the Middle East with AREP based in Dubai. AREP is a French interdisciplinary architecture practice, a subsidiary of SNCF Gares & Connexions with offices in France, Asia and the Middle East. Waleed graduated from the University of Maryland School of Architecture in 1987 and prior to opening his multidisciplinary design firm BrainStorm he has worked with several architecture and engineering firms including Perkins + Will in Chicago.

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