Week nine of Virtual Design Festival featured live interviews with Barnaba Fornasetti and Ini Archibong, as well as a celebration of World Oceans Day and the 2020 AHEAD Americas awards. More about This week's VDF highlights include Partisans, Ini Archibong, Parley for the Oceans and a VR Burning Man temple tour
Bosnian designer Nataša Perković recycled the fibrous waste from palm oil factories to create the Reclaimed Oil Palm collection, which was made using as little material as possible. More about Nataša Perković makes textured furniture from palm oil byproducts
The week on Dezeen, graffiti artist Banksy sketched a memorial to slavery, architects and designers created a public Google Doc to promote black-owned studios and Michael Ford warned architects away from designing prisons. More about This week, architects and designers responded to racial inequality
Designer Tomas Osinsk and Los Angeles film producer Chris Hanley have created a mirrored house near Joshua Tree National Park, designed to look like a New York skyscraper on its side. More about Mirror-clad Invisible House reflects its desert surrounds
Sound artist and designer Yuri Suzuki is sharing his Sound of the Earth: Pandemic Chapter project, which contains crowdsourced sounds of the pandemic from all over the world, as part of Virtual Design Festival. More about Yuri Suzuki presents Sound of the Earth: Pandemic Chapter on VDF
The new black is just slightly lighter than black. Timber, metal, stucco and stone are among the materials used to create these 10 residences in hues of dark grey. More about Ten houses in dark shades of grey that reflect the trend for moody exteriors
This Virtual Design Festival school show features work by industrial design students from the Zurich University of the Arts, including a deceptive VR experience and a handbook that addresses waste in design. More about Ten industrial design projects by Zurich University of the Arts students
Yuri Suzuki joined Dezeen for a live Screentime interview as part of Virtual Design Festival. More about Live interview with Yuri Suzuki as part of Virtual Design Festival
AntiCAD is presenting two ranges of acoustic panels at VDF products fair, including the undulating Fabrix range that references the famous The Great Wave off Kanagawa print. More about AntiCAD reveals its latest acoustic panel designs at VDF products fair
Designer Ini Archibong has launched a fundraiser to build a pavilion for the African diaspora to represent people who "don't have a flag to represent us". More about Ini Archibong launches proposal to represent displaced Africans with Pavilion of the Diaspora at London Design Biennale
Architect Alex Josephson, co-founder of Toronto studio Partisans, spoek to Dezeen in a live Screentime talk sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. More about Live interview with Partisans architect Alex Josephson as part of Virtual Design Festival
Production designer Mark Digby explains why he selected an inconspicuous 1960s university library as the location for sci-fi series Devs, which was created by Ex Machina and 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland, instead of ultra-futuristic buildings in Silicon Valley like the Apple Park. More about Less exclusive buildings "are actually some of the most interesting" says Devs production designer
New York showroom DDC is exhibiting three furniture collections at VDF's products fair, including Zanotta's updated model of Carlo Mollino's skeletal Reale table. More about DDC spotlights three statement furniture collections at VDF products fair
Austrian studio Marte.Marte Architects has revealed its design to convert the building where Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn into a police headquarters. More about Marte.Marte Architects to convert Hitler's birthplace into police station with "minimalist architectural language"
Congested infrastructure and limited public space are among the issues tackled by students from the Caribbean School of Architecture, in the proposals presented here as part of their VDF school show. More about Caribbean School of Architecture students reimagine Montego Bay to serve public and environmental health
A collection of 19 chairs made by designers Tom and Will Butterfield over 19 days during Covid-19 lockdown will be customised by 19 leading designers and artists. More about 19 Chairs project sees Tom Dixon, Morag Myerscough and others customise chairs made during lockdown
Grassy gardens top the Maggie's Centre for cancer patients built by Heatherwick Studio in the grounds of St James's University Hospital in Leeds. More about Heatherwick Studio designs plant-filled Maggie's Centre in Leeds
Canadian photographer Philip Jarmain has documented the early 20th-century buildings of Detroit that put the city on "par with New York, Chicago and Paris". More about Philip Jarmain captures Detroit's abandoned and demolished art deco buildings
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes Michelle Ogundehin's predictions on how the coronavirus pandemic will influence homes. More about Eleven ways the coronavirus pandemic will impact homes feature in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Woods Bagot has created four proposals for workplace design following coronavirus that merge working from home and office life to "strengthen culture and performance". More about Woods Bagot devises office layouts for workplaces post-coronavirus