Some works are quite short-lived in the district called d3, arriving in early November to highlight the vibrancy and uniqueness of the local Design Week. And also to attract enthusiasts and the curious, perhaps less tempted by a visit to the Downtown Design Dubai exhibition show, now in its tenth edition, and reserved mostly for industry professionals.
  Other, more impactful works become permanent presences and characterize the place even more. From the crowd, adults and children both, who not only stare at but also enjoy and interact with sculptures and installations, comes the reflection of how much contemporary urban art stimulates the public, even those in a hurry, to measure themselves with beauty, with provocation, with unprecedented experience, with a cultural dimension sometimes unknown. In a path full of surprises at every turn here appears the large agave GaryYong@enforce_one or the succession of portals of multicultural symbolic tiles, the forest of suspended ropes that mention mangroves, the agglomeration of mirrors that unites those who look at them and, on the sidewalk, the QRcode to learn more. One could not miss the invitation to explore the metaverse in a facility open to all where one can enter the scenarios of the virtual world Babel 4.0 in the Dewan Metaverse Dome.
 This visit brings me back once again to the "experiments" that Superstudio was a forerunner of, such as the "Unreal but Real" exhibition with Flavio Lucchini's large Toys virtual sculptures generated through an app on the smartphone from small solid maquettes. In 2018, during Design Week at the time, the entire exhibition, dematerialized and then visible supersized through the cell phone thanks to Sense technology, allowed visitors to enjoy the details and make pictures next to the imaginary sculptures as if they were real, to be posted with the cell phone or printed for a souvenir of the near-future immaterial world.