As the NHS prepares to roll out the IUB Ballerine, Helen Brown explores the uncomfortable history of design for contraceptive intrauterine devices.

Arctic researcher Lola Sheppard interviews architect Dorte Mandrup about the Ilulissat Icefjord Centre in Greenland, a visitor hub serving witness to a glacier beaten back by climate change.

Stefan Diez’s Ayno lamp heralds the restoration of the storied German lighting brand Midgard, a company esteemed by the Bauhaus that has now returned to prominence with a new approach towards lighting.

Balkrishna Doshi, architect of low-cost housing for the poor in India, has expressed his delight at winning a Royal Gold Medal at the age of 94.

A celebration of Iittala’s 140th anniversary explores the supernatural tales, magic, and witchcraft that haunt the history of Finnish glassblowing.

With so much plastic foam ending up as landfill, can designers and manufacturers work together to find a more sustainable future for furniture?

Benjamin Bansal and Manuel Oka explore the empty streets of Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital that was purpose-built by the military junta to deter protesters.

Jeremy Myerson looks at the changing landscape for design for the elderly through the eclectic and imaginative contributions to the 19 Chairs project.

The 2021 Turner Prize has gone to Array, the Belfast-based art collective that uses protest as its medium, just as the UK government seeks to criminalise peaceful civil disobedience.

Lemmi Shehadi speaks to the people working to rebuild Mosul’s multi-faith community by repairing the places of worship destroyed by the IS and US airstrikes.

Enter the Disegno photography competition for your chance to win an Ayno lamp by Stefan Diez for Midgard.

Jesse Rice-Evans reviews Sara Hendren’s What Can A Body Do? and asks why discussions around adaptive design still refuse to centre disabled people.

The Crit welcomes Apple repair kits; says goodbye to The Tulip; despairs over Munger Hall; asks how AI can attract bees; and tracks a cow from field to sofa.

Disegno looks back on the genre-defying career of Virgil Abloh, the trailblazing Black designer who is dead at the age of 41.

Disegno’s 31st edition is filled to the brim with exciting and insightful long-form journalism to restore your flagging spirits and warm your arterial cockles.

Niall McLaughlin Architects’s timber library for Magdalene College, Cambridge, has won the Wood Awards’ 2021 Gold Award.

After the V&A’s U-turn, Glenn Adamson explains how museums have got themselves in a muddle when it comes to chronological order.

Inside the weird world of NFT furniture, where you can spend thousands on a chair you’ll never be able to sit on.