A series of finely crafted artworks, ranging from colourful abstract sculptures to wooden installations and swings, were on show at this year's Southern Sweden Design Days. More about Playful installations explore care at Southern Sweden Design Days
French designer Sam Baron has curated the Nossa Terra exhibition, which displays designs and artefacts made from terracotta to showcase the customs of different Portuguese regions. More about Nossa Terra exhibition showcases Portugal's "cultural habits" at Lisbon Design Week
Stay Playful (When No One Feels Like Playing) is a sugary pink helter skelter, which has been repaired by interiors studio 2LG and placed in London's Spa Fields park as an installation for Clerkenwell Design Week. More about 2LG repurposes vintage helter skelter to "harness nostalgia" at Clerkenwell Design Week
During this year's NYCxDesign festival, local designer Riley Hooker has created a modular and twisting inflatable seating system informed by "slime mold" meant to acts as a gathering place in times of "crisis". More about Riley Hooker creates inflatable seating informed by "slime mold" for collective gathering
Architecture studio Artefact has created an installation at Clerkenwell Design Week using bricks made of stone, which the manufacturer claims emit 75 per cent fewer greenhouse gases than fired bricks in production. More about Artefact uses bricks made from "unloved" stone to craft temporary shelter in Clerkenwell
This year's Lisbon by Design features design pieces, craftworks and collaborative installations made in Portugal exclusively for the design fair, which is hosted in the city's Gomes Freire Palace. More about Lisbon by Design showcases "contemporary interpretations of Portuguese heritage"
Promotion: bathroom brand Kohler teamed up with designer Samuel Ross and design studio Yabu Pushelberg to create two installations that display the brand's latest products at this year's Milan Design Week. More about Kohler creates installations informed by flowing water at Milan Design Week 2024
Silver eggs and a giant floating pot are among the inflatables installed outside the Dutch parliament in The Hague as part of this year's BlowUp Art The Hague festival. More about Marcel Wanders and Studio Job create inflatable installations for BlowUp Art The Hague
French artist Daniel Buren has created installations at six Belmond hotels, including a colourful pergola in Mallorca, mirrored totems in Cape Town and a window takeover in Rio de Janeiro. More about Daniel Buren brings his signature colours to six hotels around the world
Japanese sound artist and designer Yuri Suzuki has created Arborhythm, an outdoor art installation capturing the sights and sounds of San Francisco, California. More about Yuri Suzuki combines sculpture and sound with "trumpet-like" San Francisco art installation
French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has shown three collections highlighting European vernacular craft traditions at New York gallery Demisch Danant during NYCxDesign. More about Bark-lined furniture among showcase of Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance's work in New York
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati and architect Italo Rota used a kind of artificial stone made with waste rice husks to create this modular installation in the Brera botanical garden for Milan design week. More about SunRice installation explores new uses for world's "most widely consumed food"
An interactive video installation connecting Dublin and New York City that was set to form part of NYCxDesign programming was temporarily shut down for poor behaviour from both cities. More about "Public technology sculpture" The Portal shut down after "inappropriate behaviour"
Each year at DesignMarch, Iceland sets out to prove that being a remote island with a tiny population isn't a barrier to having a thriving design scene. Here, Dezeen rounds up the highlights of the 2024 festival. More about Eight highlights from DesignMarch 2024 in Iceland
Electronics accessory brand Casetify has launched a series of public art installations in five cities around the world using recycled phone cases as the key material. More about Casetify launches global installations made out of recycled phone cases
Promotion: bathroom brand Grohe hosted an installation named Aquatecture at this year's Milan Design Week, situated in the courtyard of the neoclassical Palazzo Reale. More about Grohe unveils installation showcasing the "powerful connection of water in architecture"
Electronics brand LG OLED is exhibiting works by the late Korean artist Kim Whanki at Frieze art fair in New York, as captured in this exclusive video produced for the brand by Dezeen. More about LG OLED presents digital versions of artist Kim Whanki's work at Frieze New York
An aluminium alloy made from 100 per cent recycled waste will be a game-changer for the furniture industry, according to Norwegian designer Lars Beller Fjetland. More about Recycled aluminium "is a material we'll be using for the next 100 years" says Lars Beller Fjetland
Dutch studio OMA has designed Loewe's Crafted World exhibition, currently on show in Shanghai, which aims to celebrate the brand's craftsmanship. More about "Research became the exhibition" at OMA-designed Crafted World for Loewe
An experimental pop-up at Milan design week offered visitors free haircuts, then turned the harvested hair into textile artworks and clothing. More about Nieuwe Instituut's New Store 2.0 turns free haircuts into textiles in Milan