Design student Eliza Hague has created a concept for inflatable greenhouses made from shellac-coated bamboo paper to help residents of Jaipur, India, grow their own food. More about Eliza Hague designs inflatable origami-like greenhouses from bamboo and shellac
Architectural engineer Gregory Quinn has developed SheltAir, domed bio-containment pods erected using inflatable cushions that could help coronavirus patients isolate. More about SheltAir gridshell pods inflate in eight hours to isolate coronavirus patients
This week we're updating our Pinterest boards that celebrate the projects that don't take themselves too seriously. Browse inflatables and bouncy-castle installations, hammocks and swings and slides used as alternatives to staircases. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › More about Release your inner child with our updated Pinterest boards
New Korean Garden is an "Instagrammable" meeting and events space proposed for a rooftop in Seoul, South Korea, which is made from turquoise, pebble-like inflatables. More about SKNYPL designs inflatable rooftop garden for busy Seoul street
The Daedalum maze, which consists of 19 interconnected egg-shaped domes made from translucent material, is the latest piece of inflatable architecture designed by Alan Parkinson, founder of Architects of Air. More about Architects of Air creates "sense of wonder" with inflatable architecture maze
Architect firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has unveiled a proposal for a permanent community on the moon, comprising inflating pods that balloon up to accommodate more inhabitants as the population grows. More about SOM designs inflatable Moon Village to be first-ever lunar habitat
Inflatable architecture is back in fashion says Sharon Francis, author of new book Bubbletecture. She picks out five key examples for Dezeen, including an office with an inflatable facade and a pavilion made out of bubbles. More about Five "bubbletecture" projects that show innovation in inflatables
Brooks + Scarpa principals Angela Brooks and Larry Scarpa explain their concept for a public pavilion that could harness energy from lightning in our penultimate P.O.D.System Architecture movie. More about Brooks + Scarpa's inflatable pavilion concept captures energy from lightning storms
This year's Antepavilion is an inflatable arts venue on a barge that unfurls in just 12 minutes, created by architects Thomas Randall-Page and Benedetta Rogers. More about Inflatable yellow theatre barge pops-up on east London canal
To celebrate the Centre Pompidou's 40th anniversary, Paris-based studio GGSV has designed an interactive installation for children in the Galerie des Enfants exhibition space. More about Centre Pompidou's kids' installation mixes pattern, colour and inflatables
For this year's Beijing Design Week, architecture studio MAD has created an inflatable pavilion with two big floppy ears. More about MAD creates inflatable pavilion shaped like a rabbit's head
For this year's London Design Festival, artist Camille Walala has erected a brightly coloured, inflatable castle behind Liverpool Street Station to help city workers de-stress. More about Camille Walala installs inflatable castle decorated with trademark patterns in London
Basic sheets of plastic, paper or fabric can now be transformed into complex inflatables using a method devised by researchers at MIT Media Lab's Tangible Media Group. More about Aeromorph inflatables fold themselves from flat sheets into complex origami
This events pavilion inflates and deflates to mimic a breathing octopus – the latest in a series of inflatable structures being created by designers. More about Old Beijing junkyard covered with inflatable canopy by Max Gerthel and Jordan Kanter
Inflatable buildings are back in fashion, and being created for all kinds of functions. Here are 10 of the most inventive examples, including a mobile concert hall, a black PVC nightclub and a field of giant mushrooms. More about 10 inflatable buildings designed to blow you away
Swiss studio Bureau A created this inflatable PVC nightclub to host the annual party of the Federation of Swiss Architects (+ slideshow). More about Inflatable black nightclub created by Bureau A for Federation of Swiss Architects
A giant inflatable environment by Spanish architects DOSIS is to be blown up in an east London park to host a day of piñata making and film screenings (+ slideshow). More about Bubble-like event space by DOSIS to be inflated in east London park
Bjarke Ingels' firm has revealed images of a huge inflatable pavilion it created for this year's edition of the annual music festival in Roskilde, Denmark (+ slideshow). More about BIG creates "bubble-like cloud pavilion" at Roskilde Festival 2016
London studio Loop.pH has created an inflatable plastic dome by London's River Thames that will be pumped full of scented vapour to create a gathering space intended to replicate the atmosphere of a traditional bathhouse (+ slideshow). More about Inflatable dome on the banks of the River Thames is filled with aromatic fog
Visitors to Korea's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art can now frolic over and amongst a field of mushroom-shaped inflatables based on the landscape of a Korean fairy tale (+ slideshow). More about Moon Ji Bang installs a field of mushroom-shaped balloons outside a Seoul museum