Designers in India are rejecting the western canon and instead searching for home-grown approaches to their discipline. More about Indian designers dismiss "design-school propaganda" as they decolonise their work
MAS Architecture Studio favoured passive ventilation over high-tech solutions in this installation for Dubai Design Week, which reimagines Emirati wind towers using 480 layers of recycled cardboard. More about MAS Architecture Studio's wind tower keeps visitors cool without air-conditioning
The Object is Absent is a multi-strand installation that focuses on the designers' bodies rather than the objects they create, to demonstrate a shift in the priorities for the next generation of makers. More about The Object is Absent is a "less materialistic" design exhibition for an overcrowded world
Kids can identify plants, flowers and wildlife in their area while adding to a global biodiversity database that helps monitor the planet's health, using the augmented-reality app Seek by iNaturalist and the WWF. More about Seek app builds biodiversity database as users identify plant and animal species
Prada has signed a £42.9 million loan with banking group Crédit Agricole, with repayment terms conditional to meeting key targets around the sustainability of its products and operations. More about Prada becomes first luxury brand to sign loan tied to sustainability targets
Our natural world is "fixable, but it will never be the same" said Paola Antonelli at our Dezeen Day conference. Watch Antonelli discuss design's response to impending extinction in the first movie from the event. More about Watch the video of Paola Antonelli's keynote lecture at Dezeen Day
Dezeen promotion: interior-finishes company Woven Image has collaborated with designer Michael Young to launch a collection of acoustic panels featuring "technical decorations" based on algorithms. More about Woven Image creates acoustic panels with patterns generated by animated algorithms
The LE speaker range designed by Dieter Rams for Braun in 1959 has been updated and relaunched as a series of smart speakers that retain Rams' minimalist style. More about Braun Audio LE speakers revive a classic Dieter Rams design
Fashion "flashbacks and fast-forwards" will be the theme of next year's major fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, with exhibition design by Es Devlin. More about The Met's Costume Institute announces time-travelling theme for Spring 2020 exhibition
Copenhagen-based research lab Space10 is to open a research and design lab next week, in the Dhan Mill gated compound in south Delhi that is home to emerging design studios, creatives and entrepreneurs. More about Space10 opens second research lab in creative hub in Delhi
Dezeen promotion: Autex has released an adjustable system of acoustic beams that can be applied to both ceilings and walls to absorb sound. More about Autex launches Frontier Acoustic Raft sound-absorbing system for ceilings and walls
South Korean designer Sun Lee has created a six-piece collection of clothing from traditional Korean paper which has been cut, torn and rolled by hand. More about Sun Lee reworks traditional Korean craft into clothes made from paper
A jagged edged bookshelf and a series of modular armchairs are among the rare and limited-edition furniture designs by Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce on show at New York gallery Friedman Benda. More about New York exhibition displays rarely seen furniture by Italian architect Gaetano Pesce
Metal objects such as anti-bird spikes, flag holders and air vents are turned into household items in this project by industrial design duo Liang-Jung Chen and Shuei-Yuan Yang. More about The Misused uses hardware in surprising ways to make household goods
British historian, curator and broadcaster Gus Casely-Hayford has been appointed the inaugural director of V&A East, the South Kensington museum's east London outpost. More about Gus Casely-Hayford appointed as first director of V&A East
Individuals could cut their greenhouse-gas emissions by replacing meals with algae grown at home using the countertop Spira device by recent design graduate Rob Russell. More about Spira countertop bioreactor allows users to grow their own algae for food
Growing With You is a range of furniture pieces by Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao that are designed to adapt to the size of space they're in. More about Tatiana Bilbao designs Growing With You furniture collection
Artist and architect Lauren Henkin has created a series of sculptures to fill "unintended" installation spaces in the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio designed by late architect Zaha Hadid. More about Props exhibit fills stairwells and bathrooms of Zaha Hadid's Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati
Online design retailer Radnor has opened a new studio and launched an updated furniture collection inside The Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Brooklyn. More about Radnor opens studio in old Brooklyn factory
Swedish architecture firm Claesson Koivisto Rune worked with expert Japanese carpenter Yuji Takahashi on this collection of hand-crafted wooden furniture, which doesn't have a single flat surface. More about Claesson Koivisto Rune collaborates with master woodworker on Hand furniture