This week the Disegno team is on the ground in Milan for the Salone del Mobile. Over the coming days we’ll be sharing our reflections from the festival and picking out some of the installations, exhibitions and launches that stood out.

With demolition underway of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower, Aki Ishida tracks the decline of this once-futuristic landmark against Japan’s shifting gender roles.

A bonus episode sees the podcast move to the Eden Project in Cornwall, for an exclusive interview with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and her project to make gardens for pollinators.

Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg of Space Popular zoom with David Chalmers to philosophise about virtual architecture and the challenge of designing civic spaces in a privatised metaverse.

Rejoice, for Disegno’s summer 2022 edition is here! Disegno #33 includes a political report from OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Centre; colourful curation with Sabine Marcelis; a journey into Yinka Ilori’s new home; and a study of who gets left out when design imagines the future.

Disegno interviews Hanna Ter Meulen, co-founder of Early Majority, a technical outerwear brand addressing the pockets gender gap.

Immersed in the surreal world of Tokyo’s pachinko arcades, Luke Caspar Pearson elaborates on the architectural complexity of Japanese medal games.

As UK restaurants are legally compelled to include calorie counts for their dishes, Georgina Bronte lays out the risks of redesigning menus.

Aric Chen, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s artistic and general director, discusses transforming the institution into the world’s first zoöp: a body dedicated to ecological regeneration and representing non-human life.

Minecraft is raising a new generation of young gamers applying their design skills to real-world issues, but its first foray into mobile AR gaming raises questions about surveillance technology.

Artist Ariel Caine meets architect Dima Srouji and archaeologist Silvia Truini to discuss archaeology as a tool of colonisation and settlement in Palestine.

She said no pickles. Kate Wagner mourns the loss of garish Hamburgler decor as McDonald’s revamps itself to fit with the trend for boring, brandless spaces.

Drawn together by ArkDes, a group of architects and curators take aim at the myth of Sigurd Lewerentz, and explain why this giant of 20th-century Swedish architecture’s work was so much greater, richer and stranger in reality.

From Disegno #31, a roundtable interview with Herzog & de Meuron on the opening of M+, a Hong Kong museum in built on reclaimed land in a city at a political crossroads.

From Disegno #26, Attua Aparicio Torinos creates emoji plates out of discarded porcelain from Jingdezhen and glass remnants.

Het Nieuwe Instituut and Disegno partner to run Design Drafts an open call for new design writing and writers.

From Disegno #26, the making of Matthias Winkler’s debut collection of non-binary boots made from deadstock material that includes old lederhosen.

Fresh lipstick and fat bacteria; Oli Stratford tours the studio of Shellworks, an experimental company making biodegradable beauty packaging.