Dubai company OKSAN Group showed walls made from TexBRICK, a material it makes from recycled textile waste, at Downtown Design 2026, which ran from 4 to 8 November at Dubai Design District (d3). The green and white panels were part of the UAE Designer Exhibition, titled Inherited Futures, at the fair.
What TexBRICK is
OKSAN Group describes itself as a UAE company focused on textile waste recycling and circular innovation. According to the company, TexBRICK is made in the UAE from post-consumer and post-industrial textile waste combined with a bio-based binder, and is intended for architecture, interior design and artistic work. “At OKSAN Group, we believe that waste should never be the end of a material’s journey,” the company said in its note to Dubai Edited.
Inherited Futures at Downtown Design
The UAE Designer Exhibition is a curated feature inside the Downtown Design fair and is supported by Dubai Culture. Downtown Design said this year’s edition would bring together works by 30 UAE based creatives. Its theme, Inherited Futures, was conceived by architect and designer AlZaina Lootah around one question: what does a new generation of UAE designers inherit, and what do they choose to do with it?
OKSAN Group told Dubai Edited that it was a partner and exhibitor at the exhibition, and that the panels in its photographs are TexBRICK products. On its website, the company describes itself as the main partner of Inherited Futures and says more than 40 square metres of TexBRICK walls were on show. It also says Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, visited the installation during the fair.
A silver award in October
On 1 October, OKSAN Group announced that it had been named Silver winner in the Best Circular Economy category at the Gulf Sustainability Awards 2026, run by Awards International. The company says the award recognised its end to end approach to circular textiles, covering collection, sorting, material innovation and manufacturing, and its work turning textile waste into materials such as TexBRICK.
OKSAN Group and TexBRICK: Details
- When: Downtown Design 2026 ran from 4 to 8 November and has now closed
- Where: Dubai Design District (d3)
- What: TexBRICK, a material made from recycled textile waste, shown as walls at the UAE Designer Exhibition, Inherited Futures
- Contact: oksan-group.com or info@oksan-group.com
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Image: courtesy of OKSAN Group. Photography by Moustafa El Deeb.