Following our Grand Prix d'Honneur award in 2023, we were invited to serve as President of the Jury for the Institut du Monde Arabe Design Prize 2024 in Paris. The prize recognises outstanding design work from designers across the Arab world and its diaspora, and chairing the jury gave us the opportunity to support and celebrate the next generation of Arab designers working in craft and contemporary practice. It was a role that felt like a natural continuation of the recognition we had received the year before, turning it outward toward others.

We visited Kohler's San Francisco showroom to speak about the making of the Transcendence collection, the large-scale hammam installation we had created together for Design Miami 2022. The talk gave us the opportunity to walk an American design audience through the process: how the tiles were made from Kohler manufacturing waste, how our craft techniques were adapted to work at architectural scale, and what the hammam means as a cultural form being reinterpreted for a contemporary context. It was a conversation about craft, material innovation, and what a genuine commitment to sustainability in design actually looks like.

At Design Shanghai 2024, one of Asia's leading design fairs and an important annual platform for dialogue between Eastern and Western design cultures, we joined the East meets East panel discussion as part of The New Universal Language of Design programme. The conversation explored how craft serves as a bridge between design traditions that are often discussed as if they exist in opposition to each other. We spoke about our own experience working at the intersection of Arab, Japanese, and European design influences, and what it means to build a design language that is rooted in one culture but speaks beyond it.