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.

Dubai – ARTS THREAD takes a peek at the installations especially made for Design Days Dubai, coming up March 18-21 2013.

London – The Kinetica Art Fair returned to Ambika P3 for another exhibition full of robotics, electronics, lights, sounds and time-based art.

Coming up March 18-21, Design Days Dubai promises a strong exhibitor list, with a 30% increase over 2012. ARTS THREAD takes a first look at what to look for.

Can you take a photograph without a camera? Can a simple matchbox be considered a collectors item? These are the questions the young designers at Toegepast 17 at Z33 Gallery, Hasselt in Belgium aim to answer.

ARTS THREAD visits the Future Primitives installations at Biennale Interieur 2012, Kortkijk, Belgium – on view until Sunday. Seven specially commissioned project rooms by Ross Lovegrove, Makkink & Bey, Troika, Greg Lynn and Muller Van Severen.

This year’s designjunction during London Design Festival was held at The Old Sorting Office in Holborn over three floors. ARTS THREAD went to investigate.

ARTS THREAD looks at the exciting installations that took place at this year’s Tent London and Super Brands London, housed across two floors of the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane.

ARTS THREAD visited the special exhibitions at the V&A for this year’s London Design Festival and brings you the highlights.

Above: Musical Table, Kouichi Okamoto

Prior to the start of next week’s London Design Festival, ARTS THREAD takes a further look at what’s happening at the festival’s hub at the V&A. Don’t forget that ARTS THREAD will be hosting 3 events at the museum the first weekend, see here for more details.