The Buds Of May

Remember a year ago we were all indoors, terrified of an invisible pandemic with no idea of what the following weeks would bring? If felt like we were at war, and forced us to completely re-shifting our priorities. Now the light at the end of the long tunnel is growing. In the UAE, the successful vaccination campaign has started to bring back hope to everyone in the weeks before the Summer break. Teodore Roosevelt said once: “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” Tis is where we at now. Halfway to a rebirth, but there is still some hard work to do

When you look at the past 100 years, design has been the perfect ambassador of rebirth in war-damaged societies. After the aftermath of WWI (and the following horrendous Spanish Flu), designers jumped into Modernism and Avant-Garde, while architects reinvented the construction aesthetics with the Bauhaus movement.