South African furniture brand Wunders has worked with designer Heath Nash to open its waste stores permanently to local Cape Town makers following a workshop and exhibition that showed the potential of reclaimed materials. More about Wunders offers furniture factory waste to makers in Cape Town MakeSpace
Toronto-based designer Nicole Nomsa Moyo has unveiled a series of interactive sculptures that resemble oversized bracelets, necklaces and earrings informed by the jewellery of southern Africa's Ndebele tribe as part of Miami art week 2024. More about Nicole Nomsa Moyo creates "monumental and humbling" installation for Miami Design District
British artist Liz West has created Fluorescence, a neon installation designed to bring joy to its visitors at Granary Square in King's Cross, London. More about Liz West designs neon Christmas tree "as a beacon that radiates colour"
Local firm The MAAK has worked with artists Zayaan Khan and Kent Andreasen to develop a historically sensitive approach to building in District Six – a contentious Cape Town neighbourhood that was razed during apartheid. More about Apartheid-era demolition rubble becomes part of rebuilding in Cape Town's District Six
Belgian architect Theo de Meyer and production firm Public Art Company have created installations at the Desert Air Music Festival in Palm Springs, California, that reference industrial forms and modernist architecture. More about Theo de Meyer uses "utilitarian aesthetics" for Palm Springs festival design
Taiwanese designer Hsin Min Chan served up the head, skin and tail of an imaginary creature – all made from vegetarian food waste – at a dinner event during Dutch Design Week. More about Hsin Min Chan turns fictional creature into nose-to-tail eating experience
A lamp made of discarded mollusc shells and humming furniture featured in the Beyond Perception exhibition in New York City alongside digitized versions of the pieces for a future AI-driven video game. More about Beyond Perception exhibition pairs furniture with digital twin for video game
Lebanese-Italian studio AB+AC Architects has hidden a space for quiet contemplation inside two nesting boxes in Dubai's busy design district as part of a pavilion commissioned by BMW Middle East. More about Translucent chiffon enshrouds demountable "temple" by AB+AC Architects
Promotion: an exhibition exploring "the fusion of generative AI and traditional architecture" took place during London Design Festival 2024 led by Deepsee Digital Creative's Boyoung Lee. More about Generative AI and traditional architecture meet in installation by Boyoung Lee
A shelter for Gaza and a traditional Ahwari reed house are among the pavilions at this year's Dubai Design Week, which explored using natural and circular materials to expresses their context. More about Five Dubai Design Week pavilions translating Arab vernacular through sustainable materials
Mexican designer Norberto Miranda has created an inflatable "museographic device" made from PVC with a built-in shelf supported by air pressure. More about Norberto Miranda creates inflatable classroom with world's "thinnest shelf"
Local studio Aprdelesp has showcased a line of electrical projects, including wall plugs and power cords, at Ago Projects gallery in Mexico City to forefront items it believes have historically been overlooked in design schemas. More about Aprdelesp forefronts "overlooked" electrical accessories in Mexico City exhibition
As part of Dubai Design Week, British designer Ross Lovegrove has unveiled the first completed project from Deond, the design practice he founded with creative director Ila Colombo after moving to the United Arab Emirates. More about Deond creates parametric cardboard pavilion for Dubai Design Week
A group of Columbia GSAPP professors and students have created an inflatable installation for the New York university's campus that hung suspended between two buildings and contained seating made of nets. More about Columbia GSAPP encourages "playful interaction" with inflatable pavilion
New York architecture studio Young Projects has created a wooden pavilion on the grounds of Art Omi in the Hudson Valley with pine wood slats that "clatter and sway" in the wind. More about Young Projects installs "fraying" wooden pavilion at Hudson Valley arts centre
Italian architecture studio Una/Unless has created a wedge-shaped temporary pavilion for the courtyard of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, featuring a shimmering blue skin intended to evoke the ocean. More about Una/Unless installs glossy prismatic pavilion in historic Venetian courtyard
More than 20 local designers worked to revamp sections of a sprawling modernist mansion in Mexico City around the theme of future houses during this year's Design Week Mexico. More about Mexican designers consider the house of the future at Design House
Promotion: Turkish-born, London-based designer Melek Zeynep Bulut has designed a large scale suspended installation at the 18th-century Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London. More about Melek Zeynep Bulut installs suspended "portal" in London's Painted Hall
Dutch designer Teun Zwets has created a Dutch Design Week exhibition featuring colourful, cartoonish furniture, a grotto-like bed and a bathroom made out of cardboard. More about Teun Zwets creates show home with glossy furniture and cardboard bathroom
A stepped six-tiered pyramid dominated the main Ketelhuisplein square at Dutch Design Week this year, wrapped in colourful flags offering 80 different symbols for peace. More about Refugees and design graduates unite to make towering Temple of Peace