This movie shows an installation by designer Bobby Petersen at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, where chairs were programmed to play music when visitors sat on them. Each seat represented a different instrument and rhythm, creating a harmony when people sat down together. More about Musical Chairs by Bobby Petersen
Dutch Design Week 2011: Philips Design in Eindhoven present a conceptual self-sufficient home that converts sewage and rubbish into power. More about Microbial Home by Philips Design
Designers Andrea Mancuso and Emilia Serra created a 3D sketch of a living room by suspending strands of wool from fishing wire. More about Analogia #001 by Andrea Mancuso and Emilia Serra
Dutch Design Week 2011: designers Raw Color and Studio Mkgk present people dressed as trees as part of Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven this week. More about Temporary Trees by Raw Color and Mkgk
Dezeen Platform: for the last day of our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space, Royal College of Art graduate Sarah Colson creates her own interpretation of an analogue photo booth. More about Today at Dezeen Platform: Sarah Colson
Beijing Design Week 2011: London designer Paul Cocksedge installed giant pages of poetry made from rolled steel sheets outside the China Millennium Monument during Beijing Design Week. More about Manuscript by Paul Cocksedge Studio
Dezeen Platform: in this next interview filmed at Dezeen Space, designers LingJing Yin, Mark McKeague and Ting Chung Jessica Cheng demonstrate how they created a soundscape at Dezeen Platform by channeling the electrical charge in people's bodies, then amplified the sound by asking visitors to link up. Watch the movie »
More about Dezeen Platform: Touch the Sound
Guerilla lighting designers Luzinterruptus snuck out in the dead of night to stick 400 illuminated silicone nipples all over statues outside the Public Art Museum in Madrid. More about Touch! Touch! Nothing will Happen by Luzinterruptus
Vienna Design Week 2011: a rotating arm deposits spirals of quartz sand on the showroom floor at crystal company Lobmeyr in Vienna this week, thanks to Canadian designer Philippe Malouin. More about Time Elapsed by Philippe Malouin and Lobmeyr
Dezeen Platform: JAILmake Studio will pack seeds and soil into bricks using their one meter by one metre factory at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today More about Today at Dezeen Platform: JAILmake
French architect Serge Salat has designed an infinite labyrinth of shapes and colours for a touring exhibition in China. More about Beyond the Infinity by Serge Salat
Dezeen Platform: visitors to Dezeen Space today can stand on Dezeen Platform installation to create a soundscape by linking hands with others. More about Today at Dezeen Platform: LingJing Yin, Mark McKeague and Ting Chung Jessica Cheng
London Design Festival 2011: here are some photos of an installation by Japanese designers Nendo at the headquarters of design brand Established & Sons during the London Design Festival this week. More about My London by Nendo for Established & Sons
This movie by the American Hardwood Export Council shows the manufacture of the Timber Wave by AL_A, a three-storey-high red oak sculpture installed outside the V&A museum for the London Design Festival. More about Manufacturing the Timber Wave by AL_A and Arup
London Design Festival 2011: British architect John Pawson has installed the largest lens ever made by crystal brand Swarovski in the southwest tower of St Paul's Cathedral for the London Design Festival, which starts on Saturday. More about Perspectives by John Pawson at St Paul's Cathedral
Students at the Architectural Association in London have constructed leaf-like sculptures that curl down from a fourth-floor roof terrace to a ground level courtyard. More about 3013 Installation at the Architectural Association
An army of 100 scarecrows dressed in glowing decontamination suits kept a sinister vigil over the Dockville Festival in Hamburg earlier this month. More about Radioactive Control by Luzinterruptus
What appears to be an open tunnel beneath a bridge in northern Spain is in fact a concealed passageway, screened behind a secret mirror. More about Mirror lab by VAV Architects
Ron Arad's cylindrical cinema screen made of 5600 silicon rods opens at the Roundhouse in London today. More about Curtain Call by Ron Arad at the Roundhouse
An undulating landscape made of 65,000 discarded CDs carpets the floor of the Centquatre art space, housed in a former funeral home in Paris. More about WasteLandscape by Elise Morin and Clémence Eliard