London Metropolitan University has announced that it will be renaming The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design to remove the name of the prominent slave trader. More about The Cass architecture and design school will be renamed to remove slave trader's name
Furniture and product design students from The Cass have created pasta inspired by nipples, pocket squares and rose petals for restaurant chain Carluccio's. More about The Cass students design nipple- and headscarf-shaped pasta for Carluccio's
Theatrically sized jewellery is the hallmark of Birmingham designer Zoe Robertson, whose exhibition flockOmania opens at The Cass in January. More about Zoe Robertson's oversized flockOmania creations meld jewellery with performance
Fresh design graduates are being encouraged to get into crowdfunding early by a new initiative from London's Cass School of Art and Architecture. More about The Cass launches programme to crowdfund graduate design
Robert Mull, dean of The Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, has resigned over relocation plans for the leading east London design school, which campaigners claim will destroy it. More about Dean quits as row grows over future of London's "Aldgate Bauhaus"
Architects and designers including David Chipperfield, Richard Rogers, Jasper Morrison and Tom Dixon have joined a campaign against plans to move The Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design and cut 19 of its courses. More about Chipperfield and Rogers protest against "destruction" of London design school
Karl Lenton of UK company Safe Innovations has designed these mobile therapy spaces to give prisoners better and more comfortable access to healthcare. More about Karl Lenton designs egg-shaped movable therapy pods for prisons
Russian artist Nikolay Polissky has transformed a dilapidated building in the village of Zvizzhi into a pavilion covered in pieces of timber, which he described as "a sculpture you can walk through" (+ slideshow). More about Nikolay Polissky's SELPO pavilion is covered in thousands of wood offcuts
Graduate shows 2015: this student-designed house in Ghana pairs rammed-earth walls with translucent screens made from used water packaging, demonstrating how traditional construction can be combined with recycling (+ slideshow). More about Nkabom House is a prototypical Ghanaian home made from mud and waste plastic
Opinion: the farcical in-fighting between architectural education and practitioners – who blame each other for the industry's failures – has to stop, says Robert Mull, dean of the Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design. More about "The much-trumpeted separation between education and practice is a convenient invention"