Milan’s just closing its doors for another year tonight. If you have chance today, take a look at some of the pieces from the Royal College of Art 2012 graduates in an exhibition entitled Work.

Silesian Design Cluster bring us design from a region that now can export more than the coal it was so famous for, with a network of designers, architects, universities and research centres. Step forward into Milan – La Dolce Silesia.

A workshop in Iceland with designer Brynjar Sigurðarson was the starting point for a series of pieces using bleached whale bone created by Product Design Master students of ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne – now on show at Spazio Orso 16 for Milan Design Week.

This April is the sixth time Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) has shown in Milan and this edition promised to be full of the unexpected with live performances showing ‘raw, untreated materials like plaster and textile processed in front of the visitors in a series of extraordinary projects that push the boundaries of manufacturability, defy gravity and redefine the notion of design.’ Read on!

This April Designersblock are at Officine Creative Ansaldo on Via Tortona. ARTS THREAD paid a visit earlier this week to find out more.

Aalto University is at Ventura Lambrate this April with an exhibition entitled Norther, with 26 stimulating student projects showcasing the best of furniture, ceramics and glass, industrial design, textiles and fashion from Finland.

Designersblock & ARTS THREAD are currently at the The Magazzini in Milan’s trendy Tortona district. Walk through a forest of stylised trees created by Lost Heritage festooned with work from new talents plucked from ARTS THREAD’s creative portfolios.

Students from the Winchester School of Art have collaborated with the Southampton Neuroscience Group to create a series of fashion garments that aim to address the stigma and misconceptions surrounding mental health.

The FAI, Fabrica and alterstudio partners present Belvedere, an exhibition of unique objects designed by Fabrica’s latest batch of young designers.

Over at Ventura Lambrate, Aarhus School of Architecture from Denmark presents the work of 17 students as part of its Studio MAD – Making Architectural Design.