Final Draft 2026

Join us for a low-key Final Draft opening. We’re keeping things light with pizza and a plan to gather, chill, chat, and enjoy some mini design activations.

In this workshop we will work towards the impossible: defining something that is simultaneously true and untrue. We will seek to ask the right questions, the ones that move us through this unsolvable journey, providing the backdrop for a fun and informative workshop.

Everyone is using AI, the debate is still running on its value, and we’re here to talk about our design approach to AI, what happens when it goes wrong, and a live build session to put it to the test.

A messy but manageable creative session to excite your inner child, and your actual child too if you want. Inspired by Alexander Girard’s Vitra dolls, scrap wood and colour.

An introductory Al Sadu weaving workshop, to learn the basics of traditional Emirati weaving through the process.

Visual artist Shaikha AlKetbi unpacks her four-year mission in Japan, how it inspired her art, her work on the UAE Pavilion at the recent Expo in Osaka, and what cross-cultural creativity means in practice.

An introductory Al Sadu weaving workshop, to learn the basics of traditional Emirati weaving through the process.

Exploring the connection between good music and good album cover design in a session for your ears and your eyes.

Have you heard how they make it? The spices, the order, the debate about milk. Brewing 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.

Bringing design to life off the screen, and the link between designing something and then needing to actually make it.

Make prints, print prints, admire your prints and just generally hang out making prints.

Behind the sound and design of Teenage Engineering, one of the world’s coolest audio brands. Brought to you by official mentor, Pho.

Make prints, print prints, admire your prints and just generally hang out making prints.

A conversation on contemporary Emirati design, the culture that inspires it, the expression it takes and the magic you need to bring it to life.

A talk on building a contemporary design scene through scarcity, beauty, and the perspective gained from distance. Tracing the story through places like Japan and the Nordic countries, where restraint is not a style but a philosophy, and tying it all back to Abu Dhabi.