July news: TIME names Design District among World's Greatest Places; Camille Walala plays with perspective in Plymouth, No Isolation pinpoints the problem with touchscreens, and Design Can asks ‘what’s changed?’

The world’s at a tipping point. Takram has some ideas about what comes next.

When is a homepage like a neuroscience experiment? A. When it’s an interactive 3D visualisation of sensory response, of course…

Launched as a digital exhibition, Norwegian Presence 2020 highlights a trio of trends defining contemporary design culture in Norway: material experimentation, circular thinking, and ‘fixable’ design. Might this be a roadmap to the future of making?

Brunnel University London graduate Joshua King scooped up the Joseph Stannah Award at New Designers 2018 for Ally, a wearable device and accompanying app that supports sexual assault survivors. It’s a technologically clever and deeply thoughtful project, but if you think you’ll find the subject matter distressing, be kind to yourself and read some of our other super posts instead.

Can biology help us do things better? Will biodesign help us change ourselves and our world for the better? Who gets to design life, and in what context? These are the stimulating questions that Faber Futures founder Natsai Audrey Chieza and Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg are posing through their takeover of the Journal of Design and Science’s fourth issue this month.

We chat with Loughborough Design School graduate and New Designers exhibitor, Charlotte Wilton, about her plans for a cashless donation device that also tackles vulnerability and isolation.

Where you and I might see a waste product – something to be tidied into the bin ASAP – Dutch designer Martijn Rigters sees an opportunity. Experimental far beyond the normal bounds of the word, his practice involves taking commonplace processes and materials and turning them on their head to create radically different outcomes.

The Norwegian Pavilion at London Design Biennale will showcase two groundbreaking examples of how technology can be used to make learning more inclusive and fun.

For Dutch Design Week ten designers and ten scientists pair up to bring cutting-edge material research to life.

Designer Charlotte Kidger on her furniture made from waste plastic dust on show at Material of the Year during LDF.

As New Designers Week 2 opens, we caught up with exhibitor Sam Lander to discuss making furniture from waste polystyrene.