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Ahead of 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen, we’ve rounded up 12 unmissable events, including a show on a historic yacht and an exhibition that explores people’s perception of plastic. Read more

Promotion: the world is under-designed and over-branded, designer Karim Rashid argued on stage at Design Doha Forum. Read more

Sculptures grown from arctic seawater are among the projects in this roundup of seven of the most intriguing exhibitions from Melbourne Design Week. Read more

Following an increase in land movement surrounding Lloyd Wright’s Wayfarers Chapel outside of Los Angeles, the organization has announced it will disassemble the landmark for preservation. Read more

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features an electric car created by design studio Roth Architecture in Tulum. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Read more

Brazilian architecture studio MAB3 and Zénite Arquitetura & Construção have teamed up to install a wood-wrapped library in a school in São Paulo. Read more

Promotion: the Instituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Florence has led a collaboration between students on its Interior and Furniture Design programme and design company CampusX. Read more

A combination of grey brick and flint clads the sculptural exterior of this performing arts centre, which Dutch studio Krft has created for a college in Brighton, UK. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: designer Andreas Krob and Japanese office furniture brand Okamura have released a task chair that combines the aesthetics of 1950s drafting chairs with modern ergonomic support. Read more

A rammed-earth townhouse, a renovated modernist kit home and a concrete house in Switzerland feature in Dezeen’s houses of the month for May. Read more