Material design studio Polyfloss is working with recyclers, artists and craftspeople in Antananarivo, Madagascar, to spin waste plastic into a soft and flexible textile.

Peek behind the curtain of Plusminus, the lighting system toolkit designed by Stefan Diez for Vibia that has more than one magic trick up its sleeve.

Tesla’s long-awaited futuristic Cybertruck has been spotted on a test track. What can future-concept car designs such as Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine tell us about how to imagine tomorrow?

Welcome to Malmö, where a new generation of designers are ripping up the Swedish minimalism rulebook and ushering in an era of colour and community.

The FDA ban on Juul has stalled. From Disegno 25, Natalie Kane examines the design themes, memes, and appeal to teens of these slick flavoured e-cigarettes.

Bulldozers are moving in to Mumbai’s chawls, but plans to replace low-cost, low-rise worker housing with high-density towers could destroy existing communities.

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

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.

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.

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.