The design of bricks made out of construction waste, as told by the architects, scientists and designers working to make materials more sensitive to their local and environmental context.

Rado’s head of research and development discusses the challenges of executing Le Corbusier’s colours in high-tech ceramic.

Ella Bulley shapes new narratives about women’s roles and the representation of their bodies through a family of three wooden chairs.

India Block reports on Citibin, the trash container pilot on the front line of New York City’s war on rats.

Michael Snyder visits industrial designer Fabien Cappello’s studio in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he collaborates with a local hojalata workshop to create handcrafted tin objects for the home.

From Disegno #23, an interview with Hella Jongerius’ on her year of looms and weaving for her project Interlace, textile research.

A summer of collaboration between designers, potters and artists at Driving Creek Railway and Potteries on New Zealand’s Coromandel peninsula.

From Disegno #22, Justin Donnelly unpacks the science behind super-cute furniture that makes your subconscious squee.

Photographer Alastair Philip Wiper documents the rigorous testing processes at Worlds Best Condom Factory in Denmark.

Disegno reveals the secrets of Forward, Nike’s years-long confidential research project culminating in a new material made from plastic bottles.

Rupal Rathore stays in Auroville and uncovers an intentional community splintered by controversy over the realisation of a decades-old masterplan.

From Autun to Foshun, Brendan Cormier traces a century of manufacturing Xavier Pauchard’s ubiquitous Tolix Chaise A.

BIG’s enclosure at Copenhagen Zoo prompts Kristina Rapacki to reflect on the political power of the panda.

Alice Twemlow visits Formafantasma at their home studio to discuss research, raw materials, and walking the line between climate crisis and commercial design.

Brian Hioe walks the unfinished corridors of the much-delayed Taipei Performing Arts Center, an OMA-designed building mired in local political controversy.

Sabine Marcelis rearranges the rainbow for furniture in the Colour Rush! exhibition at the Vitra Schaudepot, captured here by Laurence Kubski.

Disegno and the Het Nieuwe Instituut present Design Drafts #1 with this online exclusive from Andrew Pasquier on the festivalisation of nightlife design.

Inside Emeco’s home away from home, as the furniture makers overhaul an “architecturally dishevelled” 1940s former workshop in Venice, Los Angeles.