Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde is exploring ways of using bio-luminescent bacteria found in jellyfish and mushrooms to create glow-in-the-dark trees that could replace street lights. More about Glowing trees could be used "instead of street lighting" says Daan Roosegaarde
These autonomous lamps by Dutch designer Bob de Graaf seek out human companions then follow them around, and go in search of the darkest spots in the house ( + movie). More about Species of Illumination interactive lights go in search of humans and dark spots
Amongst the bustling 24-hour shopping district of South Korea's capital city, Zaha Hadid has completed a 38,000-square-metre cultural complex with a twinkling aluminium facade (+ movie). More about Zaha Hadid's Dongdaemun Design Plaza opens in Seoul
Dezeen Music Project: a little girl drawn with crayons goes on a journey across the ocean in this animated music video by Rosanna Wan for Tom Rosenthal's track I Like It When You're Gone. More about Hand-drawn animated music video by Rosanna Wan for Tom Rosenthal
In the first of a series of movies from BE OPEN's Made In… India Samskara exhibition in New Delhi, exhibiting designers and co-curator Sunil Sethi discuss the importance of Indian craft and its significance in the modern world. More about "India needs to cash in on its handicrafts" says Made in… India exhibition co-curator
Visitors to a fashion film exhibition in Milan organised by arts website POSTmatter were able to manipulate imagery on giant displays using movement and gestures (+ movie). More about Interactive fashion films at POST exhibition respond to movement of gallery visitors
News: musician Imogen Heap is to put an experimental electronic glove into production, creating a tool that will allow anyone to interact with their computer remotely via hand gestures. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12 (+ interview + movie). More about Imogen Heap launches funding drive for gloves that turn gestures into music
Architecture student Tyler Short has developed an alternative to the traditional window shade - mechanical louvres that move in three dimensions to adapt to sunlight at different times of the day (+ movie). More about Kinetic louvres move in three dimensions to screen sunlight from any angle
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architect and designer Daniel Widrig explains how he uses technology borrowed from the special effects business to design everything from jewellery to skyscrapers. More about Software advances are "blurring boundaries between design disciplines"
Transportation start-up Kolelinia has created a vehicle that uses pedal power to transport riders around town while standing up, like a low-tech version of a Segway (+ movie). More about Halfbike by Kolelinia lets riders stand up while pedalling
These clothes hangers by German-Latvian creative agency Flow Design don't feature hooks, instead attaching to the underside of any metal surface with magnets (+ movie). More about Cliq coat hangers by Flow Design replace hooks with magnets
Dezeen Music Project: sound artist Holly Herndon collaborated with digital designer Akihiko Taniguchi to create the music video for her latest track, Chorus, which sets out to explore our relationship with the internet through a series of distorted 3D renders of her friends' messy desks. More about Cluttered workspaces are digitally re-created in Holly Herndon's Chorus music video
Fashion designer Maiko Takeda has added glow-in-the-dark designs to her range of spiky masks and body adornments for an exhibition of her work in Paris (+ movie). More about Prickly headdresses by Maiko Takeda glow in the dark
New York architect Steven Holl has released two movies about the Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing, China, a building designed to recreate the "parallel perspectives" that are characteristic of Chinese landscape paintings. More about Sifang Art Museum "gives you a feeling of mystery" says Steven Holl
This raw concrete church by Nameless Architecture presents a cross-shaped elevation to a road junction in Byeollae, a new district under development outside Seoul, South Korea (+ movie). More about Nameless Architecture adds concrete church to growing Korean town
Design strategy collective Urban-Think Tank has designed and built a prototypical house as part of an initiative to improve housing conditions for slum dwellers in some of the 2700 informal settlements across South Africa (+ movie). More about Urban-Think Tank develops housing prototype for South African slums
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: designer Eric Klarenbeek, who displayed a chair made out of 3D-printed fungus at Dutch Design Week in October, says the technique could be used to create larger, more complex structures. More about 3D-printed mushroom roots "could be used to build houses"
Milan 2014: Kitchen and bathroom equipment is lowered into islands made from engineered quartz material Caesarstone in this animated preview of an installation for the brand by London studio Raw Edges, to be unveiled in Milan next month (+ movie). More about Raw Edges Studio animates kitchen concept for Caesarstone
DMOA Architecten has transformed a former hunting lodge in Belgium into a family home, retaining the eight piers of its original brick facade as a garden feature (+ movie). More about Brick colonnade screens renovated hunting lodge by DMOA Architecten
Light projected through a soap bubble throws patterns generated by the tiny vibrations of a speaker onto the ceiling in this installation by Royal College of Art graduate Dagny Rewera (+ movie). More about Soap and light visualise sound vibrations in Dagny Rewera's installation