A mossy fungus could be used to make nutritional food products after an apocalypse, or on Mars, according to research by designer Julia Schwarz. More about Julia Schwarz uses lichen to create food for after the apocalypse
Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video investigates a prefabricated homeless housing concept for Los Angeles that aims to bridge the gap between life on the streets and permanent accommodation. More about Homes for Hope tackles homelessness with modular temporary housing
Architectural photographer Cristobal Palma has created a film showing Peruvian firm Barclay & Crousse's concrete university building in Piura, which was awarded the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2018. More about Barclay & Crousse's award-winning Edificio E captured in movie by Cristobal Palma
Dutch design studios BCXSY and Atelier Robotiq have collaborated to create a lamp with a disorderly pattern that is meant to suggest that it was made by a robot with a mind of its own. More about BCXSY and Atelier Robotiq's Out of Order lamp created by "absent-minded" robot
Chinese studio People's Architecture Office is using a pop-up pavilion to show how a prefabricated home designed for China's hutongs could be used by cities in the US to help tackle the housing crisis. More about Plugin House built in Boston to demonstrate potential for use in US backyards
The silhouettes and movement of speeding racing cars influenced the slanted lettering of this wordmark, designed by Pentagram's New York office as part of a rebrand for an online auto trader. More about Pentagram evokes speed with branding for online car shop Vroom
Latticed timber triangles are raised up over three landscape mounds to form this year's MPavilion, installed in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens by Barcelona-based office Estudio Carme Pinós. More about Carme Pinós unveils origami-inspired MPavilion raised up on grass mounds
A simple switch is replaced by a line of dominoes in this unusual lamp by London design duo Glithero, meaning a chain reaction is required to turn it on. More about Glithero creates lamp you switch on by toppling a row of dominoes
Atelier NL co-founders Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyck explain how they will use London clay to create the trophies for the inaugural Dezeen Awards, in this movie Dezeen filmed at their Eindhoven studio. More about Atelier NL sources clay from London brick manufacturer for Dezeen Awards trophy
Patterns created by Turkish media artist Refik Anadol are being projected onto the facades of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles each night for a limited time. More about Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall illuminates with dream-like visuals
Zaha Hadid Architects has won a competition to design the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall in Yekaterinburg, Russia. More about Zaha Hadid Architects to design concert hall for Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
Toys created by Czech designers over the past century are on show in London, including inflatable animals, wooden flowers and colourful totems. More about Czech toys from the past 100 years showcased for London Design Festival
Graphic design studio HATO has created a new interactive website for London restaurant Sketch that invites guests to play with food, tiles and grass. More about Sketch gets virtual makeover with new interactive website by HATO
Watch towers by Rafael Viñoly, Richard Meier and KPF rise in this time-lapse video, which shows that the Waterline Square development on Manhattan's Upper West Side is almost complete. More about New York's Waterline Square skyscrapers climb in time-lapse movie
Writer Gianluigi Ricuperati, Studio Nucleo's Piergiorgio Robino and Driade CEO Giuseppe Di Nuccio explain why they created a collection of 3D-printed furniture for the moon in this movie Dezeen produced for Driade. More about Driade creates Moon Mission installation to prove it is "more than just a design brand"
The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series reveals a plan to recycle derelict homes, by demolishing them, combining the waste with mushroom mycelium and then using it to build new, biodegradable structures. More about Redhouse Architecture wants to use mushrooms to turn derelict buildings into new homes
Technology company Elvie has launched a cordless breast pump designed to be worn inconspicuously in any nursing bra. More about Elvie launches wearable breast pump that's silent and wireless
This captioned movie by Dezeen demonstrates how users can customise the pattern on Sony's new e-paper watch almost instantaneously. More about Sony's FES Watch U e-paper timepiece can be updated at the touch of a button
Jaime Hayon says his Plenum furniture collection aims to be a hybrid between design for the home and the office, in this exclusive video interview Dezeen filmed at his studio in Valencia for Republic of Fritz Hansen. More about Office furniture is in a "hybrid moment" says Jaime Hayon
Opendesk customers can now use augmented reality to see how the furniture brand's pieces look in their homes before ordering them from local makers. More about Opendesk launches augmented-reality shopping for its open-source furniture