Our VDF collaboration with The World Around concludes with the premiere of a new film by Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera, which charts the global impact of coronavirus across a wide range of different scales. More about Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera premiere film exploring the visual landscape of Covid-19
Architect Cameron Sinclair and vegan fashion designer Mats Rombaut are joined by Facebook's director of product design Margaret Stewart in the third part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. More about Cameron Sinclair and Facebook's Margaret Stewart feature in the third instalment of The World Around symposium
Data journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi has unveiled a series of limited-edition prints and shared a selection of her illustrations visualising information about coronavirus as part of The World Around's takeover of Virtual Design Festival for Earth Day. More about Mona Chalabi creates Stats to Help you Breathe illustrations to take people's minds off coronavirus
Curator Aric Chen and designer Thomas Thwaites discuss their work in the second part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around, which also features short films by Kalyanee Mam and Apichatpong Weerasthakul. More about Part two of The World Around's Earth Day symposium features Aric Chen and Thomas Thwaites
Our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day kicks off with a series of conversations with designers including Nelly Ben Hayoun and Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi. More about Kunlé Adeyemi and Nelly Ben Hayoun feature in the first session of The World Around symposium
In this live interview, Beatrice Galilee speaks to Dezeen about the online symposium she has curated as part of Virtual Design Festival's partnership with The World Around for Earth Day. More about Live video interview with The World Around curator Beatrice Galilee
To mark Earth Day, VDF collaborated with The World Around to host a series of talks, interviews, short films and essays exploring ideas that could "shape the future of our relationship with the planet". More about Kunlé Adeyemi, Nelly Ben Hayoun and Cameron Sinclair feature in VDF's collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day
Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes delays to work on Notre-Dame Cathedral and an intensive care unit in a shipping container. More about Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 22 April
Research and design platform Livable has created a rattan frame that is worn over the head and body to increase awareness of the need for social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic. More about Livable's Well-Distance-Being project encourages social distancing with wearable rattan cages
Artists and designers including Vivienne Westwood, Christopher Kane and Wolfgang Tillmans have created protest-style posters about coronavirus for Dazed Media. More about Vivviene Westwood and Christopher Kane create hopeful coronavirus posters
Hospitals "desperately need designers" to improve everything from the way they tackle coronavirus to the layout of operating theatres and the design of medical charts, according to a senior US doctor. More about Lack of design input in healthcare is putting both patients and doctors at risk, says physician
Coen Car is a concept design by Nendo that envisions children playing with a fleet of autonomous vehicles that function as pieces of mobile and interactive playground equipment. More about Nendo designs self-driving mobile playground equipment for children
Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes a medical isolation hood, Milan's post-coronavirus plans and rainbow art to raise spirits. More about Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 21 April
A pack of mischievous rats cause chaos in this installation by graffiti artist Banksy who, like many, is working from home during the coronavirus lockdown. More about Banksy reveals rodent-themed installation inside his own bathroom
Dutch design studio Raw Color has suggested using odd socks to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. More about Raw Color designs Elbow Sock for coronavirus sneezing
Dezeen hit a major milestone this week, becoming one of the 3,500 most-visited websites in the world, according to ranking service Alexa. More about Dezeen becomes one of the top 3,500 most popular websites in the world
Creative people thrive in difficult situations and can use the coronavirus pandemic to explore new ways to add value, says designer Lonneke Gordijn of Studio Drift in a video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival. More about Coronavirus is an opportunity to create "a new economic model" says Lonneke Gordijn
Boston architect Eric Höweler and a team from Harvard's Graduate School of Design have helped local doctors develop patient isolation hoods – a new type of device that could save the lives of healthcare workers and "impact things worldwide" in the fight against coronavirus. More about Architects and medics collaborate on "unprecedented" project to develop open-source hoods to protect healthcare workers
Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes the conversion of a Foster + Partners-designed college building, open-source hoods and optimism from Spain. More about Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 20 April
Week two of Virtual Design Festival features an architecture photography festival, a celebration of Earth Day, interviews with SO-IL and Ron Arad and a live music performance by Beatie Wolfe. Here's what's coming up this week. More about Virtual Design Festival week two includes SO-IL, Ron Arad and Beatie Wolfe