London Design Festival 2015: David Adjaye, Alex Chinneck and Mischer'Traxler are among the designers set to create installations for this year's London Design Festival, which will include an electricity pylon turned on its head and a courtyard filled with mirrors (+ slideshow). More about London Design Festival reveals installations for 2015
New York 2015: patches of dirt and an aquarium with ancient species are part of a new installation by French artist Pierre Huyghe for the roof garden at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (+ slideshow). More about Pierre Huyghe incorporates primordial elements into Met rooftop installation in New York
Latticed and LED-illuminated climbing frames and a geometric-patterned sun seat are among the installations to be erected in the Nevada desert for the Burning Man arts festival this summer (+ slideshow). More about London architecture students design desert pavilions for Burning Man festival
Milan 2015: the walls of a Milanese gallery are lined with excrement to highlight one of the material's potential uses in this installation by architect Luca Cipelletti (+ slideshow). More about Luca Cipelletti plasters Milan gallery with manure for Shit Show
Italian architect Antonino Cardillo has created a multi-sensory space for experiencing and buying fragrance by coating a room inside an old London building with volcanic ash (+ slideshow). More about Antonino Cardillo combines scent and texture for Illuminum Fragrance shop interior
Milan 2015: visitors to a Neoclassical palazzo in Milan were invited to play on swings created by London designer Philippe Malouin using quartz surface material Caesarstone (+ slideshow). More about Philippe Malouin installs swing set inside grand Milanese palazzo
Milan 2015: London designer Max Lamb presented 42 of his seat designs made using a wide variety of materials and processes within a disused garage in Milan last week (+ slideshow). More about Max Lamb's Exercises in Seating demonstrates material experiments through chair design
Milan 2015: British designer Bethan Laura Wood has created an installation of giant canapé-shaped sculptures for the relaunch of a 1960s tableware collection cast from lettuce leaves. More about Bethan Laura Wood creates installation of oversized canapés for lettuce-shaped plates
Extra Moooi: take a closer look at the huge portraits that provide the backdrop for new furniture, homeware and carpets by Dutch brand Moooi with this digital version of its Unexpected Welcome exhibition in Milan. More about Moooi's Milan 2015 exhibition is captured in a 360-degree virtual showroom
Milan 2015: IKEA has collaborated with designers to create kitchen installations focused on children, disabled people and the future of cooking at a pop-up space in Milan (+ slideshow). More about IKEA Temporary presents kitchen concepts at Milan pop-up
Milan 2015: a machine that converts dog poo into battery power, fashion accessories laced with catnip and a 3D printer that uses ink made from salamander bacteria are among products designed by students from the HEAD Geneva School of Art and Design. More about Geneva students make ink from salamanders and electricity from dog poo for Milan show
Milan 2015: London designer Lee Broom has joined together three shops on Milan's Via Alfredo Cappellini to create a faux department store for displaying his latest products (+ slideshow). More about Lee Broom's fake department store installation opens in Milan
Milan 2015: over 100,000 metres of translucent white fabric is cut into strips to create this tunnel-like installation by New York studio Snarkitecture for fashion brand COS (+ movie). More about Snarkitecture creates warren of textile ribbons for COS
Milan 2015: Scholten & Baijings has covered a selection of Herman Miller furniture in fabric that features a nine-metre repeat of geometric patterns (+ slideshow). More about Scholten & Baijings upholsters Herman Miller seating in gridded fabric
Architecture studio Akoaki has created an angular aluminium pod called The Mothership, which contains a DJ booth for staging pop-up events and funk concerts in Detroit's North End neighbourhood (+ slideshow). More about The Mothership by Akoaki is a mobile DJ booth for playing funk on the streets of Detroit
Visitors to a park in Xiangyang are greeted by over 500 bright purple fins, which are dotted with LEDs and play traditional Chinese music from internal speakers (+ slideshow). More about Penda creates landscape of purple pillars for audio-visual installation in a Chinese park
Curved wooden benches and stools "grow" from a gridded floor of dyed timber installed in the sculpture gallery at English stately home Chatsworth House. More about Raw Edges installs dye-soaked wooden floor across 19th-century sculpture gallery
Hong Kong designer André Fu has installed glass cubes and a miniature zen garden on one of the city's piers to create a presentation space for fashion brand COS. More about André Fu creates "modern Asian" installation for COS presentation in Hong Kong
London department store Selfridges has opened concept retail spaces free from gender directives, created by designer Faye Toogood (+ slideshow). More about Faye Toogood designs gender-neutral retail spaces for London's Selfridges
British sculptor Antony Gormley has filled a Parisian gallery with an impenetrable structure made from grids of steel, and an army of figures made from stacked metal cubes (+ slideshow). More about Antony Gormley occupies French gallery with monumental metal sculptures