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DESIGN:What gets me going: Noato Fukasawa’s design behaviour (3)
Design_Matrix: Vogt+Weizenegger’s exhibition at the MARTa, Herford
Doctor Plastic: industrial designer Claus Mølgard
A DAMn° view on last year’s products
London Calling: Tom Dixon’s capital

ARCHITECTURE:
Seal of Approval: the new Milan Feria and other works by Massimiliano Fuksas (7)
New Breeds: Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings; exhibition in Basel
Unusual Dwellings: Quonset huts in their spiritual home of Alaska and beyond (8)

FILE: The Rice of China
Edward Burtynsky: a personal photographic response to changing China (2)
The China Syndrome: variables and questions in boom time
Chinese Twins: Rotterdam focuses on contemporary creativity from the People’s Republic
Tristesse Chinoise: video artist Yang Fudong
Sign of the Times: The Thirteen: Chinese Video Now; exhibition at PS1, New York
Cube Chaos: MVRDV’s architectural vision for Longtan Park in Liouzhou
A Graphic Future: contemporary Chinese graphic design

URBAN & SOCIAL:
The Mayors of Intervention: Edi Rama, the colourful mayor of Albania’s capital, Tirana (6)

ART:
Rubber Sole: Judi Werthein’s controversial Brinco trainer public art project (4)
Moving Monitors: the images of Turkish video artist Kutlu_ Ataman
The A-Z of Life: the investigations and interventions of Andrea Zittel at New York’s New Museum (5)
The Ugly Beautiful: artistic responses to the aesthetics & social ideals of the high-rise

FASHION:
Painted from Memory: artist Carsten Fock meets fashion designer Bernhard Wilhelm (1)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Chernobyl Mon Amour: Lourdes Ségade’s photographic impressions 20 years on

AGENDA: what’s up and where