This week’s Design Line reports on a new tool from Arup that models Urban Heat Islands, the first period product tests to use actual blood, and England’s attempt to outlaw unisex public toilets.

An interview with designer Paola Navone, who gave away hundreds of her personal possessions in a lottery installation called Take It Or Leave It.

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

Disegno catches five minutes with Gbolade Design Studio to speak about their exhibition Breaking Ground at The Africa Centre.

Sophie Tolhurst reviews Weird Sensation Feels Good, and asks what gets sanitised when an internet phenomena is embraced by traditional design institutions.

Maison&Objet returns to Paris for 2023 with an enthusiastic message of caring for the environment and each other.

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg lets her AI rhino loose in London’s Natural History Museum, prompting philosophical questions about extinction and complicity.

Seven prototypes for living through the climate crisis get taken for a test drive at Driving the Human’s festival in Berlin.

Disegno explores Supermodels, an exhibition from Piercy&Company that highlights the pleasures of architectural model making.

As major institutions put on exhibitions curating utopian visions for the future, Zara Arshad enquires as to whether they have grappled fully with their colonial pasts.

MoMA curator Paola Antonelli on collecting code and their new exhibition, Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design.

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

From touch to time, craft takes on a sensory approach at this year’s Homo Faber: Living Treasures of Europe and Japan.

A rewilded crater where Japanese knotweed is being turned into paper, traditional mushroom hats, and firewood exhibition furniture feature at BIO27 in Ljubljana.

From Disegno #30, Peter Kapos reviews the Vitra Design Museum exhibition and book, German Design 1949-1989, and asks if romanticising the past poses a risk in the present.

Studio Weiki Somers does the design time warp for The Roaring Twenties, an exhibition at Museum Kranenburgh in The Netherlands that remixes objects from the past and the present.

Disegno discovers the original pioneer of DIY and the secrets of the Soviet space race at Vitra’s exhibition Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today.

Designer Bethan Laura Wood takes Disegno into her imaginary boudoir ahead of her solo gallery show Ornate at Nilufar in Milan.