In his manifesto for the Dezeen 15 digital festival, architect Winy Maas of MVRDV proposes covering the planet with a new inhabitable geological layer called The Sponge. More about "What if we create a new layer on the Earth that incorporates growing human habitation and consumption?" asks Winy Maas
Xandra van der Eijk spoke to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival. More about Live interview with Xandra van der Eijk as part of Virtual Design Festival
British artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's solo show at Vitra Design Museum asks questions about our place in the natural world. We look at the six projects on display in the exhibition. More about Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg "trying to evoke emotion" with Better Nature show
Curator Aric Chen has explored how we will use materials in a new geological age, in the headline exhibition for this year's Design Miami/Basel. More about Design Miami/Basel explores the anthropocene with Elements: Earth exhibition
Chunks of "plastiglomerate" found by Canadian artist Kelly Jazvac on a Hawaiian beach form part of this year's Milan Triennale exhibition, illustrating how the anthropocene era is leading to the formation of new man-made minerals. More about Kelly Jazvac presents "beautiful and horrific" plastiglomerate lumps at Milan Triennale
We've woken up to the reality of the anthropocene era and realised the catastrophic damage we've inflicted on the planet. Now we must develop a new form of architecture that can adapt to major environmental changes, says Darran Anderson. More about "As environmental catastrophe unfolds, we need architecture that is more than just green"
A series of 3D-printed models of the foot of a receding glacier in Switzerland feature in this installation by Dutch designer Xandra van der Eijk, which examines the notion of ecological grief. More about Xandra van der Eijk's installation explores feelings of ecological grief
Designers need to think of bigger, more ambitious solutions to the world's problems, according to speakers at Dezeen's talk about design in the anthropocene era during Dutch Design Week. More about "More science fiction" needed to save planet earth, say designers at Dezeen talk
London-based designer Yesenia Thibault-Picazo has created three household objects for the anthropocene era, using materials she believes will be used by craftsmen hundreds of years in the future. More about Yesenia Thibault-Picazo crafts objects from precious materials of the future
Ghent-based designer Bram Vanderbeke has sculpted a series of abstract furniture pieces from blocks made of concrete waste that are treated with pigments and waxes to give an unexpected texture. More about Bram Vanderbeke uses concrete waste blocks to create neolithic-looking furniture
Dutch designer Xandra van der Eijk has poured household chemicals onto widely available metal objects in an installation that aims to demonstrate how chemical waste dumping is affecting the earth in the anthropocene era. More about Xandra van der Eijk's metalwork explores effects of chemical waste dumping
Eindhoven-based design studio Dutch Invertuals has curated an exhibition of 10 objects, to question whether – in the anthropocene era – it is possible to reduce the volume of non-essential products in our lives. More about Dutch Invertuals presents products that champion using less
Sponge Mountain is a proposal by architect Angelo Renna for a 90-metre-high mound of soil, which would absorb carbon dioxide from the air in Turin. More about Artificial mountain made of soil could soak up pollution in Turin
Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs spoke to an expert panel about how designers can shape the anthropocene era to prevent global catastrophe in our latest Good Design for a Bad World talk. More about Watch our talk about design and the anthropocene at Dutch Design Week 2018
If humans can't reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, can we design our way out of climate-change catastrophe? Last week's UN report shone a light on geoengineering, a discipline that proposes large-scale interventions to counteract global warming. So what ideas are geoengineers proposing? More about Five geoengineering solutions proposed to fight climate change
We are entering a new geological era: the anthropocene, in which human activity is a dominant influence on earth's geology and environment. At Dutch Design Week, a special edition of our Good Design for a Bad World series will ask if design can harness this phenomenon to prevent global catastrophe, writes Marcus Fairs. More about "Humans are clever. They can solve problems. There is hope"
Blocks of resin with colourful marble-like patterns surround chunks of wood to form these miniature storage boxes by Royal College of Art graduate Jie Wu. More about Jie Wu seeks to elevate value of plastic with series of miniature boxes
Design collective Dutch Invertuals has teamed up with research studio Franklin Till to explore how man-made materials can be "mutated" and repurposed. More about Dutch Invertuals explores material making in the Anthropocene era
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Shahar Livne has created a clay-like material using discarded plastic that could be mined by future civilisations. More about Shahar Livne uses waste plastic to create Lithoplast, a precious material of the future