In the fourth episode of our Climate Salon podcast series with SketchUp, architects discuss how involving communities in the design process is paramount to achieving sustainability. More about Engaging with communities will "enrich" projects says Sumele Adelana in Climate Salon podcast
Designer Emy Bensdorp has found a way to clean PFAS "forever chemicals" from contaminated clay soil by firing it into bricks as part of a project showcased at Dutch Design Week. More about Emy Bensdorp takes on PFAS pollution by turning "toxic" soil into bricks
Designers Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez and Pierre Paslier have been shortlisted for The Bentley Lighthouse Award. Here, the pair select five projects that best reflect their work. More about Five key projects by Bentley Lighthouse Award nominees Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez and Pierre Paslier
Promotion: New York-based office furniture manufacturer Humanscale has begun a global collaboration with Danish textile brand Kvadrat that seeks to combine ergonomically-sound seating with dynamic upholstery. More about Humanscale partners with Kvadrat in global collaboration
New York-based interior designer Anne-Sophie Rosseel has created a sustainable children's furniture collection that locks together for easy assembly. More about Anne-Sophie Rosseel creates colourful furniture that kids can assemble
Charlene Prempeh's Now You See Me book celebrates the work of Black designers during the past century – from the lauded to the chronically overlooked. Here, she selects nine that have had a particularly significant impact. More about Nine Black designers who left their mark on the past 100 years
Dezeen Showroom: workplace furniture company Room has created a single-person acoustic pod that provides solo workspaces in open-plan offices. More about The Phone Booth acoustic pod by Room
We now have more than half a million followers on our LinkedIn! To celebrate the milestone, we've commissioned an illustration by Venezuelan designer Luthiem Escalona. More about Dezeen LinkedIn passes 500,000 followers
Designers Sabine Marcelis, Job Smeets and Camille Walala, along with pop band Duran Duran and British photographer Rankin, have created a range of limited-edition lava lamps. More about Sabine Marcelis and Camille Walala design lava lamps to mark iconic light's 60th anniversary
A stainless steel cow that produces vegan milk and a vertical farm designed for space feature in this video of the Spacefarming exhibition created by Dezeen for Dutch Design Week. More about Spacefarming exhibition explores the future of food industry and agriculture
There are just five days left to save on tickets for the Dezeen Awards 2023 party. Book now to secure your place at our reduced early-bird rate and see this year's winners announced. More about Five days left to book early-bird tickets to Dezeen Awards 2023 party
US tech startup Laero has unveiled a compact water treatment system at Dutch Design Week, which it claims can be installed under any sink to recycle up to 80 per cent of the water. More about Laero develops at-home system for turning wastewater into drinking water
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
A conceptual wildfire detection system powered by renewable energy and composed of recycled Samsung smartphones has been named the winner of the Re:Create Design Challenge. More about Wildfire detection concept wins Dezeen and Samsung's Re:Create Design Challenge
A running shoe designed for use on Mars and a meditative water installation feature in this video by Dezeen, which showcases student projects from Design Academy Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week. More about Design Academy Eindhoven graduates showcase work at Dutch Design Week
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
A group of design graduates from London's Royal College of Art have come up with a way to make RFID tags entirely from paper, with no metal or silicon components in a bid to cut down on waste from single-use electronics. More about PulpaTronics tackles single-use electronics with paper RFID tags
Design student Willem Zwiers has salvaged second-hand books and used them to form a small furniture collection, currently on show at the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show at Dutch Design Week. More about Willem Zwiers melds second-hand books together to form marbled furniture
German designer Basse Stittgen has developed two methods for transforming lignin, an under-used plant-based polymer, into functional objects. More about Basse Stittgen creates "remade wood" objects using tree-based bioplastic
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