Ying Gao's dresses become animated "in the presence of strangers"
Fashion designer Ying Gao has created a collection of robotic dresses, with fibrous panels that delicately twist and curl when they identify strangers nearby. More
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Cubetto is a wooden robot designed to teach toddlers how to code
London company Primo Toys has designed a "hands on" wooden play set that aims to teach three-year-old children the principles of coding without the use of screens (+ slideshow). More
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Istituto Europeo di Design to launch sustainable building course in 2016
Dezeen promotion: the Istituto Europeo di Design in Turin will launch a master course in Smart Buildings and Sustainable Design in February 2016, which will offer students the opportunity to work with futuristic transport company Hyperloop. More
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Jessica Smarsch transforms muscle movements into textured garments
Dutch Design Week 2015: Eindhoven designer Jessica Smarsch used digitally captured body movements to inform the raised patterns across the clothes in this fashion collection. More
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Kneip creates miniature motorised sculptures from found objects
Vienna Design Week 2015: a hammer that persistently strikes a stone and a "breathing" vacuum-packed sponge are among the moving sculptures that Norwegian studio Kneip has installed at a Viennese workshop (+ movie). More
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Neon Golden replicates swarm of fireflies with light installation
Austrian arts collective Neon Golden has created an immersive light installation that mimics the movements of fireflies (+ slideshow). More
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Casa Jasmina combines Italian design with connected home technologies
Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling has curated an apartment inside an old industrial building in Turin, Italy, bringing together various designs to create the "open-source connected home of the future" (+ slideshow). More
