Christien Meindertsma: Beyond the Surface, at the Vitra Design Museum in Basel examines the designer's work with wool, flax, incinerator ash and recycled wool. More about Christien Meindertsma exhibition explores the potential uses of four materials
Smokey black walls, old chimneys and machinery surround this exhibition of design collective EWE Studio's works inside a 17th-century mint in Mexico City. More about Blackened Mexico City coin factory provides moody setting for EWE exhibit
British artist David Shrigley has filled a gallery in Stockholm's Spritmuseum with giant inflatable swans, which inflate and deflate in cycles of 12 minutes. More about David Shrigley's inflatable Swan-things collapse and spring to life in 12-minute cycles
Designer Charlotte Maëva Perret has built a towering installation of soaps made by Syrian refugees and Albibaba.com luxury leather bags to help people visualise the connection between offline production and global online retail. More about Open Sesame installation pairs Syrian soap with Alibaba.com leather bags
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has created a large-scale light performance that follows pieces of junk floating around in outer space, to mark the launch of an initiative to highlight the issue of space waste. More about Daan Roosegaarde's UFO-like light installation tracks pieces of space waste in real time
American graphic designer and artist Andrew Herzog has created a 1,000-metre "walking mural" around the National Museum of Art in Bucharest, Romania. More about Andrew Herzog paints 1,000-metre white circle around Romanian National Museum of Art
Patterns created by Turkish media artist Refik Anadol are being projected onto the facades of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles each night for a limited time. More about Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall illuminates with dream-like visuals
A 250-metre-long concrete basin, built in the Netherlands in 1977 to test defences against rising sea levels, is ripped apart and flooded to form this colossal artwork. More about RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon slice open huge wave machine to create Deltawerk monument
Dezeen spoke to British-Japanese design duo Studio Swine about the future of technology, art and design during this talk held in New York at Brooklyn creative space A/D/O. More about Watch our talk with Studio Swine in Brooklyn
London-based graphics studio Åbäke has used a poisonous fish as the starting point for an educational journey, and is showcasing the results at the Istanbul Design Biennial. More about Åbäke establishes year-long School of Fugu to explore radical new way of learning
There are four colourful new sculptures inside Sir John Soane's Museum in London, designed by architecture office Studio Mutt to represent a lawyer, an architect, a monk and a magician. More about Studio Mutt installs four architectural characters inside London's Soane Museum
Toys created by Czech designers over the past century are on show in London, including inflatable animals, wooden flowers and colourful totems. More about Czech toys from the past 100 years showcased for London Design Festival
East London-based artist Lorenzo Vitturi deconstructed products from the Established & Sons collection, and reassembled them into disjointed sculptures, for an installation at London Design Festival. More about Lorenzo Vitturi repurposes Established & Sons furniture for sculptural installation
Designer and artist Pinar Yoldas has imagined nine designer babies based on the characteristics of hellenic deities as a reflection on human gene editing. More about Pinar Yoldas creates designer babies based on characteristics of Greek gods and goddesses
Writer Gianluigi Ricuperati, Studio Nucleo's Piergiorgio Robino and Driade CEO Giuseppe Di Nuccio explain why they created a collection of 3D-printed furniture for the moon in this movie Dezeen produced for Driade. More about Driade creates Moon Mission installation to prove it is "more than just a design brand"
London's Westminster Abbey has a new stained-glass window, designed by David Hockney on his iPad, to commemorate the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. More about David Hockney creates iPad-designed stained-glass window for Westminster Abbey
South Korean artist Do Ho Suh has built a replica of his childhood home and installed it above a road in the City of London. More about Traditional Korean house installed above busy London street by Do Ho Suh
Digital artists R Luke DuBois and Zach Lieberman have both created installations to reveal the primitive nature of facial-recognition technology that is used by organisations all over the USA. More about Cooper Hewitt reveals sinister side of facial recognition tech at London Design Biennale
A robot appears to mill three-dimensional sculptures from within a framework of scaffolding in Burberry's shop on London's Regent Street. More about Robot produces polystyrene sculptures inside Burberry's London store
A London Fashion Week installation by designer Anya Hindmarch saw people lounging on a giant cloud-shaped beanbag while wearing boilersuits. More about Anya Hindmarch installs "world's biggest beanbag" in London's Banqueting House