Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed and built a 2,000-pound sculpture that can be rocked, rotated, lifted, and hauled upright with minimal effort (+ movie). More about MIT students create 2,000-pound "megalith" that can be moved with a fingertip
World Architecture Festival 2015: in this exclusive movie, Eric Chang of Buro Ole Scheeren discusses the importance of the communal courtyards in The Interlace, the "vertical village" that was crowned World Building of the Year 2015 last week. More about The Interlace by Ole Scheeren was designed to "build a sense of community"
Dutch Design Week 2015: British designer Allison Crank has created a virtual reality shopping centre that allows users to commission bespoke objects within a world of floating neon signs and stray zoo animals (+ movie). More about Virtual reality mall lets consumers shop alongside digital giraffes and zebras
Wolfgang Natlacen's ovoid funerary urns can rock like a Weeble toy to offer an alternative to the "grey and sad conformism of death" (+ movie). More about Egg-shaped urns for cremated ashes rock back and forth without falling over
Movie: New York designer Dror Benshetrit discusses the limited-edition foldable wine rack he designed for Brancott Estate in our second movie for the New Zealand wine brand. More about Studio Dror's wine rack for Brancott Estate is "a little piece of sculpture"
Seoul studio OBBA hung thin white strips around this temporary pavilion, designed as a resting place for visitors to an outdoor art exhibition (+ movie). More about Translucent curtains surround "floating" Oasis pavilion by OBBA
Movie: in our next exclusive movie with Julia Peyton-Jones, the Serpentine Gallery director discusses the artificial mountain MVRDV proposed for the 2004 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which eventually proved too expensive to build. More about MVRDV's proposed 2004 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion was "a heroic failure"
Music: American animator Jeanette Lee borrowed the shapes of Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower to create a science-fiction urban landscape for Dewy Sinatra's In My Bubble music video. More about Jeanette Lee animates a futuristic city for Dewy Sinatra's In My Bubble video
Extra Moooi: in this movie filmed in Amsterdam, Moooi co-founder Marcel Wanders explains why the Dutch brand launched a new version of his Container Table featuring a base covered with wooden slats. More about Moooi refreshes Container Table collection by wrapping the base with wooden slats
Future Makers: advances in digital tools are enabling independent game developers to move into hardware as well as software, says Alex Fleetwood of start-up Sensible Object, which is developing a new hybrid game called Fabulous Beasts (+ movie). More about Indie developer Sensible Object merges physical and digital gameplay with Fabulous Beasts
London studio Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has won a bid to design a new terminal for Taiwan's largest airport, seeing off competition from Foster + Partners and UN Studio (+ movie). More about Richard Rogers wins Taiwan Taoyuan airport terminal competition
Visitors to an English forest were able to explore the woods through the eyes of different animals as part of a virtual reality experience by London design studio Marshmallow Laser Feast (+ movie). More about Virtual reality helmets present a forest from an animal's perspective
Music: director Alan Del Rio Ortiz transports musician Petite Noir into patterned digital environments for his La Vie Est Belle music video. More about Petite Noir gets lost inside a virtual world in La Vie Est Belle video
Movie: designer Dror Benshetrit and winemaker Patrick Materman explain how the craft of winemaking informed Studio Dror's geometric sculpture for Brancott Estate in this movie by Dezeen for the New Zealand brand. More about Studio Dror's installation for Brancott Estate reflects the landscape of vineyards
People appear to be dancing, jumping and skating behind the seemingly translucent facade of this public restroom, which has just been named Japanese Toilet of the Year (+ movie). More about Japan's "toilet of the year" by Klein Dytham Architecture seems to offer no privacy
Canadian designer Julie Legault has developed a desktop biolab to make synthetic biology more accessible, allowing users to hack DNA at home and monitor the progress of their creations (+ movie). More about Julie Legault's Amino bio-engineering kit creates a bacterial Tamagotchi
World Architecture Festival 2015: British architect Will Alsop says there are more opportunities for ideas-driven architecture projects in China – like his Gao Yang development, which features a four-storey hanging restaurant – in this movie filmed in London (+ movie). More about China more open to new architecture than risk-averse UK, says Will Alsop
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Anouk van de Sande has designed a range of patterned garments that produce visual effects as the wearer moves (+ movie). More about Anouk van de Sande's Print in Motion garments create moiré effects
Movie: German designer Sebastian Herkner explains why he created a seating range made from thick metal tubes in our latest movie for Italian furniture brand Moroso (+ movie). More about Sebastian Herkner's Pipe furniture collection for Moroso is "not just about function"
Dutch Design Week 2015: design firm Studio Drift has installed flower-like lamps, which randomly rise and fall as they "bloom", inside an empty Eindhoven factory (+ movie). More about Studio Drift installs moving Shylights in disused Eindhoven building