Research organisation Mercari R4D and a team including students from the University of Tokyo have jointly developed an inflatable electric-scooter that riders can stash away inside their backpack. More about Poimo is an inflatable electric-scooter that can be transported inside a backpack
Week six of Virtual Design Festival features a collaboration with Prague's centre for architecture and urban planning CAMP, including a live interview with Kengo Kuma. We also team up with magazine Sight Unseen and Stockholm Design Week, plus we launch a new series of Screentime interviews featuring leading designers sponsored by Philips TV & Sound. More about Kengo Kuma, Snøhetta, Marjan van Aubel and Adam Nathaniel Furman feature at VDF this week
Multidisciplinary collective Studio ThusThat explored the "invisible" material of copper as a low-carbon alternative to concrete when developing its This is Copper furniture collection. More about Studio ThusThat creates objects from "overlooked" byproducts of the copper industry
Designer and programmer Cyril Diagne has created an augmented reality tool that can capture images of real-world objects and add them to a computer program in a few seconds. More about AR Copy Paste tool allows users to capture images of physical objects and drop them into a computer
Today VDF teams up with Schloss Hollenegg for a tour of the historic castle in Austria and live interview with curator Alice Stori Liechtenstein. More about Tour of design exhibition at historic Austrian castle with curator Alice Stori Liechtenstein as part of VDF
In the fifth week of the Virtual Design Festival, we interviewed Standard Architecture and Sauerbruch Hutton, as well as launching an exclusive series of videos about Archigram. More about This week's VDF highlights include Archigram, Faye Toogood, Ben van Berkel and an exclusive piano performance by Rosey Chan
This week on Dezeen, architects and designers envisioned socially distanced offices, schools and planes, while a gridded social-distancing system was installed in an Italian piazza. More about This week, architects and designers looked to a socially distanced future
Furniture company IKEA has designed six play houses that can be built with its products to entertain children in coronavirus lockdown. More about IKEA designs forts for children in lockdown
VDF studio profiles: scientific research meets design at Studio ThusThat, a multidisciplinary practice whose work exposes the hidden potential in the material world. More about Studio ThusThat's work unearths potential of the material world
Dezeen promotion: UK manufacturer Forbo Flooring has released its Tessera Earthscape carpet tile collection, which takes design cues from colours and textures found in nature in a bid to promote wellbeing. More about Forbo Flooring designs Tessera Earthscape carpet tile collection inspired by nature
Multidisciplinary design consultancy Matter has designed three conceptual cervical cancer examinations that women could carry out themselves at home to break the taboo of smear tests. More about Matter's Sukha concept enables women to carry out smear tests at home
Influential design exhibitions platform Ventura Projects is to cease operating after ten years of organising exhibitions in Milan and other cities due to the impact of coronavirus. More about Ventura Projects ends operations after 10 years of promoting designers at Milan design week
Dezeen promotion: decaying flowers, abstract blocks of colour and imaginary characters feature in Nanimarquina's latest rug collections. More about Nanimarquina unveils four new collections of rugs
Dezeen Showroom: The Yellow Untitled is a new rug collection designed by Sandra Keja Planken for Noun Amsterdam that aims to brighten interiors "like the morning sun". More about The Yellow Untitled by Sandra Keja Planken for Noun Amsterdam
Dezeen Showroom: Noun Amsterdam's colourful wall rugs called The Lips are designed by Sandra Keja Planken to add "depth, vibrancy and boldness" to interior spaces. More about The Lips by Sandra Keja Planken for Noun Amsterdam
Dezeen Showroom: woven leather straps form the seat of the MT Bench, which Japanese designer Shinsaku Miyamoto has created for Ritzwell. More about MT Bench by Shinsaku Miyamoto for Ritzwell
A medical illustrator behind the first 3D images of the coronavirus particle has spoken to Dezeen about how his team branded an invisible disease that "needed an identity". More about Iconic Covid-19 images designed to create "a feeling of alarm" says CDC medical illustrator Dan Higgins
Vello is showing three of its folding bicycles at Virtual Design Festival's products fair, including Vello Bike+, which is "the first bike to combine electric, self-charging and folding features" according to the Austrian brand. More about Vello showcases three folding bicycles at VDF products fair
VDF products fair: Vello Bike is an ultra-light bicycle developed by Valentin Vodev, which can be folded into a portable size in seconds. More about Vello Bike by Valentin Vodev for Vello
VDF products fair: Product designer Valentin Vodev has developed a foldable electric bike for Vello that charges as it travels. More about Vello Bike+ by Valentin Vodev for Vello