Visitors to an Austrian museum transcend the exhibition space on a steep black staircase constructed from layers of net by design collective Numen/For Use (+ slideshow). More about Numen/For Use combines "height and wobbliness" in net staircase for Linz gallery
Brightly coloured stripes based on refracted light run across the walls, ceilings and floors of an art gallery in Nuremberg, Germany, in this immersive installation by Markus Linnenbrink (+ slideshow). More about Markus Linnenbrink's Off the Wall! installation immerses visitors in colour
Dutch Design Week 2014: experimental garments designed by this year's crop of fashion graduates from around Europe are brought together at this exhibition in an Eindhoven nightclub (+ slideshow). More about Modebelofte 2014 exhibition showcases "innovative" graduate fashion
Interieur 2014: Belgian creative agency Dift has enlisted furniture brands including Artifort and IKEA to turn the rooms of a school set for demolition into temporary hotel suites during Biennale Interieur 2014 (+ slideshow). More about Dift utilises doomed Belgian school to create Eyes/Nights Only hotel
Nendo has used different tones of pink and purple to create the illusion of 3D display stands at an exhibition on Japanese design that the studio curated in Singapore (+ slideshow). More about Nendo creates pastel optical illusions for Japanese design exhibition display
A solo exhibition of Dutch designer Aldo Bakker's sculptural furniture, including a minimal swing and a number of more ambiguous objects, is on display at a Rotterdam gallery (+ slideshow). More about Aldo Bakker exhibits new designs at Galerie Vivid Rotterdam
London Design Festival 2014: experimental footwear, furniture and jewellery pieces by a selection of emerging designers feature in the Future Stars? exhibition at London's The Aram Gallery (+ slideshow). More about The Aram Gallery showcases seven new designers in Future Stars? exhibition
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs introduces this round-up of our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition on the future of mobility, which took place last month during London Design Festival. More about Dezeen and MINI Frontiers showcased "provocative ideas" for future travel
The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein is hosting a major retrospective exhibition of work by late Finnish Modernist architect and designer Alvar Aalto, a year after Vitra's acquisition of Aalto's furniture company Artek (+ slideshow). More about Vitra Design Museum hosts Alvar Aalto retrospective
London Design Festival 2014: a series of glass objects by artist Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert, including lights designed to look like clouds, are on display at Gallery Fumi in east London (+ slideshow). More about Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert exhibits blown-glass "clouds" at Gallery Fumi
Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern World at the Barbican will attempt to explore the shared history of photography and architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries, in the "first major exhibition" of its kind in London (+ slideshow). More about Barbican exhibition focuses on relationship between architecture and photography
London Design Festival 2014: the new Galerie Kreo in Mayfair is showing furniture editions by designers including the Bouroullec brothers, Jasper Morrison, Konstantin Grcic and Jaime Hayon for its inaugural exhibition. More about Galerie Kreo launches London gallery with work by Grcic, Hayon, Bouroullecs and more
British designer Patrick Stevenson-Keating has reimagined the financial system to create a banking process intended to encourage users to think more about their purchases for this year's Designers in Residence programme at London's Design Museum (+ slideshow). More about Patrick Stevenson-Keating reimagines the value of currency
The Design Museum in Helsinki is hosting a retrospective of work by Ilmari Tapiovaara to raise the profile of the Finnish Modernist furniture and interior designer out from Alvar Aalto's shadow (+ slideshow). More about Helsinki Design Museum exhibition celebrates "Finland's second designer"
London design practice Studioilse has moved into Copenhagen design gallery The Apartment for a three-month residency (+ slideshow). More about Studioilse sets up camp in Danish design gallery The Apartment
Dutch artist Krijn de Koning has created a labyrinthine walkway between brightly coloured walls on a terrace at the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, England (+ slideshow). More about Krijn de Koning builds colourful architectural structures at Turner Contemporary
Berlin's Tchoban Foundation museum for architectural drawing is showing an exhibition of futuristic sketches by late experimental architect Lebbeus Woods. More about Tchoban Foundation exhibits fantastical drawings by Lebbeus Woods
Dutch design duo Scholten & Baijings have curated a colourful exhibition of their own work at French arts centre Villa Noailles (+ slideshow). More about Scholten & Baijings exhibit retrospective at Villa Noailles
Royal College of Art graduate Sungsin Eo has designed a foam display and seating system for museums to present information to children in an engaging and playful way (+ movie). More about Sungsin Eo designs foam display system for child-friendly exhibitions
An exhibition by Dutch curator Li Edelkoort at Israel's Design Museum Holon brings together the series of folding clothing by Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, alongside work by designers Patricia Urquiola, Marcel Wanders and the Bouroullec brothers (+ slideshow). More about Li Edelkoort exhibits Issey Miyake garments at Design Museum Holon