Milan 2012: this week visitors to La Rinascente department store in Milan have been trading souvenirs from the moon, making plastic from plants and learning how to download a house, courtesy of Hacked Lab curated by Beatrice Galilee. More about Hacked Lab at La Rinascente
Milan 2012: this inkjet printer has been adapted by Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) student Christophe Guberan to print patterns that contort pieces of paper into specific 3D forms. More about Hydro-Fold by Christophe Guberan
Milan 2012: London designers Studio Toogood will create a "hospital for the senses" at MOST in Milan next month as an antidote to the hustle and bustle of the furniture fair. More about La Cura by Studio Toogood at MOST
Designed in Hackney: next up in our showcase of design talent from Olympic host borough Hackney is Stoke Newington studio Loop.pH, who have installed this umbrella-like canopy of illuminated lace at the entrance to London's Kensington Palace. More about Designed in Hackney: Luminous Lace by Loop.pH
Slideshow: Croatian-Austrian design collective Numen/For Use have suspended carpet-lined cocoons from the ceiling of a former church in Pula, Croatia. More about Tuft Pula byNumen/For Use
Singapore and Barcelona designers Outofstock presented floating islands made of crumpled copper and moss during the International Furniture Fair Singapore this month. More about Laputa by Outofstock
Dresses whirl past on a radio-controlled coat hanger in this installation by Amsterdam-based German designer Michael Schoner at the Droog flagship store in Amsterdam. The movement was controlled by manipulating two fans, taken from computers, at the top of the mobile while bags of sugar and salt provided counterweights. More about Coat-hanger Chopper by Michael Schoner
Cologne 2012: London designers Doshi Levien installed a vision of their dream home at trade fair imm cologne in Germany last week. More about Das Haus – Interiors on Stage by Doshi Levien at imm cologne
London designer Paul Cocksedge recently completed another sculpture resembling pieces of paper caught in the breeze, although this time the leaves glow like a swarm of fireflies. More about Bourrasque by Paul Cocksedge
Fallen stars, glowing red dominoes and a vine-covered tree are some of the lights installed by artists, designers and architects in Lisbon this Christmas (photographs by Fernando Guerra). More about Lisbon Christmas Lights by Pedro Sottomayor, José Adrião and ADOC
This deceptively hefty-looking cube is actually designed to fly like a kite. More about Little Shining Man by Heather and Ivan Morison
The translucent back wall of this pop-up headphone shop changes colour in response to the noise made by Christmas shoppers. More about Urbanears at Boxpark by 42 Architects
In this movie filmed at the AXIS Gallery in Tokyo, Japanese studio Nendo exhibit a selection of their projects through a wall of stacked polycarbonate sheets. Viewed through this transparent facade, Nendo's designs become pixelated abstractions which vary as visitors move around the exhibit. More about 50 projects_25 objects + 25 spaces by Nendo
Dezeen in Israel: devices that spy, measure, dance and eavesdrop have been added to an exhibition of digital and interactive design that has travelled to the Design Museum Holon. More about Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the Design Museum Holon
Later this week visitors to the Hong Kong Arts Centre will be able to stick their heads through the ceiling of one gallery to find themselves in a paper winter wonderland. More about Wald aus Wald by Takashi Kuribayashi
Dezeen Platform: in this interview filmed for our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform, Polish studio mode:lina describe their Audiochmura, a soundscape of London that is played through a cloud of tangled corrugated pipes. More about Dezeen Platform: mode:lina
Dezeen in Israel: designer Chanan de Lange exhibits two circular library bookshelves made from recycled school desks at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. More about Ex Libris by Chanan de Lange
Landscape designers Earthscape have opened up their studio in Beppu, Japan, to present their experiments with growing native plants in water from local hot springs. More about On-iku by Earthscape
Designers Anna Rosinke and Maciej Chmara of Kollectiv Stadtpark have been touring Austria, making friends with locals in the street at their mobile kitchen table. More about Mobile Gastfreundschaft by Kollectiv Stadtpark
British designer Tom Price has made an enchanted grove of cherry trees out of plastic tubes and cable ties. More about Cherry Tree by Tom Price