This year's Global Grad Show in Dubai illustrated how "many small actions come together to create a total picture". Curator Eleanor Watson selects five innovative projects that make a positive global impact.
The Global Grad Show takes place each year as part of Dubai Design Week. This year's edition saw 150 projects exhibited from 120 universities spanning 45 countries.
Curated for the first time by Eleanor Watson from London's Design Museum, the show was organised into five sections: the human, the home, the community, the city and the planet.
Watson describes these sections as "the spheres where innovation can create a positive impact."
Eames' Power of Ten influenced show
According to the curator, the show's structure was based on a 1977 film by Ray and Charles Eames called Powers of Ten, which imagines the universe as "an arena of both continuity and change". The film begins with a close-up shot of a man lounging on a picnic blanket in a park. The camera then pans out gradually, metre by metre, to the power of 10 every 10 seconds until it reaches the universe.
"I thought this was quite a neat way of communicating the fact that all of these designs operate on different scales, and they have different spheres of influence," Watson told Dezeen. "There are many, many small actions that come together to create a total picture."

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