Yuri Suzuki’s Ambient Machine reveals the analogue pleasures of a bank of toggle switches.

Mitzi Okou chairs a roundtable with contributors to The Met’s new Afrofuturist period room including curator Hannah Beachler, the costume designer of Blank Panther.

The difference between direct experience versus written evocation comes up for debate as Jonathan Olivares opens his new showroom for Kvadrat in New York.

The mid-summer Design Line is here, with a look at the US’s wave of unionisation, video game disaster simulations, and BIG’s mock-up mistake.

Danish architect Vilhelm Lauritzen’s midcentury designs for concertgoers and working people have been reissued by Carl Hansen & Son on the centennial of his practice’s founding.

The Crit is back with discussions about Salone del Mobile, the shocking findings of the Bartlett investigations, and the claimed sentience of Google’s LaMDA chat bot.

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

Here comes the Design Line, featuring news from 3 Days of Design, the story of the scandal rocking The Bartlett, and the discovery of worms that eat plastic waste.

On the evolution of the graduate show, examining how the the end-of-year get-together for graduating designers has morphed into a platform for talent and trends.

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

The stories East Quay, a new kind of arts and community centre designed by the Onion Collective and Invisible Studio in one of England’s most deprived regions.

Day three of Salone del Mobile includes the Disegno dispatch on Loewe’s luxe approach to refurbishment, Formafantasma’s contemporary take on Mario Bellini, and Konstantin Grcic’s new collection for Plank.

A second day at the Salone del Mobile brings a trip to ECAL’s collaboration with Yamaha, Aldo Bakker’s objects for marijuana, and Front’s nature-infused installation with Moroso and Kvadrat.

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.

It’s not the end of the week until Design Line is here! This week has MVRDV taking to the rooftops, Volvo entering its video gamer era, and a rather underwhelming foliage-themed homage to the Jubilee from Heatherwick Studio.

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.