Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling has curated an apartment inside an old industrial building in Turin, Italy, bringing together various designs to create the "open-source connected home of the future" (+ slideshow). More
Belgian artist Carsten Höller has filled the Hayward Gallery and terraces on London's South Bank with interactive installations, including a pair of spiral slides (+ slideshow). More
London Festival of Architecture 2015: Turner Prize-nominated architecture collective Assemble has teamed up with British artist Simon Terrill to create full-size foam replicas of playground designs from architecture's Brutalist era (+ slideshow). More
Furniture that has been extruded and manipulated into distorted forms by Dutch designer Sebastian Brajkovic is on show at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris (+ slideshow). More
London Festival of Architecture 2015: London studio Systems has organised an exhibition that brings together forgotten 1960s toys including Interslot, Bird and Fish, and Marble Run (+ slideshow). More
Incubating chicken eggs and objects made by prison inmates are among the artefacts currently on view in a tiny museum in a New York City alleyway (+ slideshow). More
Stockholm studio Form Us With Love has extended its beer exhibition at the city's Spritmuseum to include a venue for outdoor drinking (+ slideshow). More
Movie: the Liminal – Irish design at the threshold exhibition presents work by Irish designers embracing both traditional craft techniques and new digital technology, explains co-curator Alex Milton in this movie filmed in Milan. More
These sculptural helmets by digital art studio FIELD incorporate Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets (+ movie). More
An exhibition at New York's Museum of Arts and Design celebrates the work of Ralph Pucci, whose mannequin designs chronicle changes in visual culture over more than 30 years (+ slideshow). More
Israeli artist Daniel Rozin has designed an interactive "mirror" from faux-fur bunches that change colour to create moving silhouettes (+ movie). More
London Festival of Architecture 2015: visitors to this London "sleeperie" can take a 10-minute nap in a colourful sling within a dimly-lit room, where soothing music is played and all technology is banned (+ slideshow). More
Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has created a set of sports-themed furniture for an exhibition at Paris' Galerie Kreo (+ slideshow). More
New York 2015: a new exhibition at New York's Chamber design gallery pairs an installation and furniture built from three-armed modules with a set of phallic tableware. More
The influence of Chinese culture on fashion design is examined through garments by Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, John Galliano and more in an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (+ slideshow). More
New York 2015: an exhibition in a Brooklyn loft showcases furnishings by Italian designer Piero Lissoni, paired with work by New York designers (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2015: in this movie, USM CEO Alexander Schärer introduces the student installations at a Milan exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Swiss brand's Haller modular furniture system. More
Lake-flavoured water, tacos made from insects and "century-old eggs" were all on the menu at an experimental restaurant located in a Wrocław gallery (+ slideshow). More
Parisian studio FREAKS freearchitects has covered a series of elaborately decorated galleries inside the Palais du Louvre with shiny plastic for an exhibition that brings together historic and contemporary design (+ slideshow). More
The What is Luxury? exhibition at London's V&A museum features over 100 "luxury" objects, from a diamond made out of roadkill to furniture and accessories decorated with human hair (+ slideshow). More