How architectural workers in the UK and US are unionising to resist the industry’s toxic culture of overwork and underpay.

Andra Formen is a Swedish design collective turning e-scooter’s dumped in Malmö’s canals into cheekily branded objects.

Rupal Rathore stays in Auroville and uncovers an intentional community splintered by controversy over the realisation of a decades-old masterplan.

Lauren Yoshiko is beguiled by HopStep, a cut crystal vessel that converts into a cannabis pipe designed by Aldo Bakker for J. Hill’s Standard.

From Autun to Foshun, Brendan Cormier traces a century of manufacturing Xavier Pauchard’s ubiquitous Tolix Chaise A.

The Disegno team wave goodbye to 2022 and reflect on an exciting and eventful year.

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

Our annual round-up episode of The Crit is here, looking back on some of the design stories that tickled us or made us go “hmmm” in 2022.

Four designers gather for a roundtable discussion on the importance and complexities of using the word “care” to think about design.

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

Evi Hall reflects on Cabine, Inga Sempé’s standing mirror for Ariake that’s produced on different continents for a more resilient supply chain.

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

We’re excited to announce the launch of Design Reviewed, a new biannual publication from the team behind Disegno.

BIG’s enclosure at Copenhagen Zoo prompts Kristina Rapacki to reflect on the political power of the panda.

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.

Italian designer Stefano Giovannoni makes subtle updates to Laufen’s Ilbagnoalessi bathroom set.

1970s feminist architecture collective Matrix tell curator Viviane Stappmanns how they made space for women in design in this roundtable interview.

Brazilian designer Fernando Campana, one half of the Campana Brothers, has died at the age of 61.