A wooden pavilion shaped by dehydration and banners made from found urban objects are on show at Chicago's James R Thompson Center for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. More about Chicago Architecture Biennial fills postmodern Thompson Center with installations
An exhibition showcasing designs by French designers and Mexican artisans as well as a retrospective on local studio EWE's work were on show during Mexico City's annual design festival. More about Ten noteworthy exhibitions from Design Week Mexico 2023
Design collective Dutch Invertuals created an installation that encourages visitors to find beauty in the simple things at this year's Dutch Design Week. More about Slow-motion Flow fountain seeks to "mesmerise" spectators away from their phones
Rotterdam's Nieuwe Instituut museum is rethinking the archetypal gift shop with a pop-up at Dutch Design Week, designed to encourage more ethical, resource-conscious consumption. More about Customers exchange urine for soap at Nieuwe Instituut pop-up shop
A "sacred space" made from CLT panels and a cloud canopy made from strips of woven bamboo are among the pavilions being shown at New York City's Design Pavilion event. More about Bamboo canopy and CLT gathering space feature at Design Pavilion in New York
Promotion: French Impressionism meets the artificial intelligence age in Jardins d'Été, a new series of works by artist Quayola that is being presented in collaboration with electronics brand LG OLED at London's Frieze art fair. More about LG OLED and Quayola present an algorithmically generated garden at Frieze London
To mark POOR Collective winning London's Emerging Design Medal, co-founder Shawn Adams rounds up eight must-know projects by the social enterprise, focused on involving young people in the regeneration of their communities. More about Eight projects by POOR Collective that reimagine co-design as "a two-way street"
The diversity of nature informed the latest exhibition at London's Kew Gardens, which features a garden designed to "break the binary" and a "deeply queer" textile pattern by designer Adam Nathaniel Furman. More about Kew Gardens exhibition showcases Queer Nature in Victorian glasshouse
A group of students from the University of Applied Arts has won Vienna Design Week's Social Design Award with a project aimed at involving citizens in the design of their urban spaces using the city's own waste materials. More about Membran recruits pedestrians to turn waste tarps into public seating for Vienna
Woven spinning chairs by Héctor Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena, and a hidden stage with entrances made from portable toilets were some of the highlights of FORMAT Festival in Arkansas. More about Esrawe + Cadena installs spinning chairs at FORMAT Festival in Arkansas
Geodesic domes containing projections of AI-rendered images depicting "ideal eco futures" feature at the Earth Edition exhibition held in California. More about "Solarpunk" installations feature at Earth Edition festival in California
Promotion: Italian wellness brand Effe has launched a number of new saunas for 2023, including the Aladdin sauna and the Natural modular cubicle, which is available as a sauna, hammam or infrared sauna. More about Effe launches two new saunas for the home
L'Arc de Triomphe Wrapped, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude's last work, is being recycled by Parley for the Oceans, which will turn it into tents and sun shades for use during the 2024 Olympics and other events in Paris. More about Parley for the Oceans to recycle Christo and Jeanne-Claude's L'Arc de Triomphe Wrapped
Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has teamed up with Canadian playground design company Earthscape to create a playground structure made of interconnected logs. More about Kengo Kuma and Earthscape create "wooden mountain" playground structure
New Red Order has opened an exhibition in an empty lot in Queens that invites visitors to become "accomplices" in decolonization through a series of installations. More about Animatronic beaver among New York installations focused on decolonization
Montreal-based designer Thom Fougere has created a small collection of ring-shaped benches cut from a single plate of steel and installed in the woods outside of Winnipeg. More about Thom Fougere creates collection of ring-shaped benches for forest floor
Architecture studio Zeller & Moye has collaborated with artist Katie Paterson to create Mirage, a massive sculpture made from glass cylinders for technology company Apple's campus in California. More about Zeller & Moye and Katie Paterson align hundreds of glass cylinders for Apple campus sculpture
An oversized chalice and a light show constructed from water containers were among more than 400 art installations at this year's Burning Man festival. Here are 11 of the most interesting. More about Eleven installations from this year's "Animalia" Burning Man festival
As London Design Festival returns for another year, we have selected some of the key installations and exhibitions to see as part of the 2023 edition. More about Ten must-see installations at London Design Festival 2023
New York-based artist Torkwase Dyson has designed a monolithic black structure for the Counterpublic art festival in St Louis to augment sound recordings from a ragtime composer. More about Torkwase Dyson fuses sound and architecture for St Louis installation