In Conversation: Design of Our Time – Material Worlds

Tom Dixon & Lina Ghotmeh, Moderated by Celâleddin Çelik

Lina Ghotmeh and Tom Dixon CBE each bring exceptional perspectives to design and architecture.

Tom Dixon has built one of the most recognisable design brands in the world, working with industrial materials, instinct, talent and a refusal to stay in one lane. In this conversation, he reflects on four decades of designing through radical change—how values evolve, how industries transform, and what it takes to sustain a creative practice through uncertainty.

Lina Ghotmeh is one of the most influential architects of our time. An award-winning French-Lebanese architect, her work is grounded in sustainability, memory and material sensitivity. Currently leading the design of major cultural institutions around the world, she reflects on the importance of craft in contemporary architecture and the need to engage deeply with place and history.