New Togolese contemporary art centre the Palais de Lomé has opened with a retrospective of one of its nation's creative stars, the industrial designer Kossi Aguessy, who died in 2017 at just 40 years of age. More
Set designer Shona Heath's exhibition design for the Tim Walker exhibition at London's V&A reflects the many outlandish sets she has created for the fashion photographer. More
The work of six up-and-coming French designers is on show at the Maison&Objet furniture fair in Paris, revealing an emerging trend for handmade rather than mass-produced objects. More
Salt and pepper shakers and an ice-cube tray are among the objects that Canadian designers have made from machined aluminium for an exhibition at this year's Toronto design week, curated by designer Jamie Wolfond and local studio MSDS Studio. More
This exhibition of works by architects and artists installed at Rudolph Schindler's house in West Hollywood, California takes the fraught relationship between the architect and his wife as its theme. More
A chair made from loaves of bread and a toilet-cum-sink are among the objects on display in an exhibition at Friedman Benda that aims to find a "new form of pleasure" in furniture. More
San Francisco's Carpenters Workshop Gallery is staging an exhibition of works by Studio Drift that aim to showcase the "intersection of nature and technology". More
A curved, golden mirror ideal for taking selfies is among the large light fixtures that Brooklyn designer Fernando Mastrangelo's In Good Company has placed into the courtyard of Brooklyn hub A/D/O. More
Architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti stokes the surveillance debate with his biennale exhibition, which is set in a working train station in China and uses facial-recognition technology. More
Stockholm-based artist Åsa Stenerhag has created a series of ceramic objects that she suggests might be alien body parts. More
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Furniture by designers including Joyce Wang and Mario Tsai is on show at this Shanghai exhibition organised by contemporary art and design platform The Artling. More
Artist and designer Nathalie Du Pasquier has translated her fascination with bricks into a site-specific exhibition comprising seven totem-like sculptures made from stacked bricks glazed in bright colours. More
The work of Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao is on show at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark, in an exhibition that includes an imaginary city, a cabinet of curiosities and four full-size architectural mockups. More
An embroidered floor lamp and eel-skin clad cabinet are among the objects in a collection by US lighting studio Apparatus that took direction from musical scores. More
This year's Global Grad Show in Dubai illustrated how "many small actions come together to create a total picture". Curator Eleanor Watson selects five innovative projects that make a positive global impact. More
An exhibition at the V&A Dundee explores the evolving relationship between humans and robots. From 1920s sci-fi films to brain-controlled exoskeletons, curator Kirsty Hassard picks five highlights. More
This exhibition at the Judd Foundation in New York pairs together furniture by architect Alvar Aalto and paintings by sculptor John Chamberlain from late American artist Donald Judd's archive. More
An exhibition at London's V&A museum looks at the car as "a designed object", charting its 130 year-long impact on global culture from fashion and furniture to mass production and the built environment. More
Eco-Visionaries at London's Royal Academy of Arts looks at how art and architecture can help us respond to environmental change, and is the latest in a line of recent large-scale exhibitions on the theme. More
This year's Oslo Architecture Triennale looks at degrowth, an economic strategy that calls for a reduction of both production and consumption, and asks what architecture could do to support it. Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson picks out 10 of the most interesting ideas. More
