The Lost Rhino is a new exhibition by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg at the Natural History Museum’s Jerwood Gallery, the first in a series of shows by artists exploring themes around the Climate Emergency. The exhibition explores the possible extinction of the northern white rhino via her 2019 digital life-size projection, The Substitute, Albrecht Dürer’s 1515 woodcut of a rhino, a video of rhino cells and a stuffed southern white rhino. Design Week has the story here, including an interview with exhibition designer Gitta Gschwendtner on her sustainable approach to the show.

The RSA’s ReGeneration Rising podcast series explores “how regenerative practice is helping people in place collectively re-design their communities, cities and economies and create a thriving home for all on our planet”. Its December 16 episode featured Sarah Ichioka and URGE’s Michale Pawlyn talking about their book, Flourish: Design Paradigms for our Planetary Emergency. Listen here

Dell’s Concept Luna laptop is designed for ease of disassembly, making it simpler to repair and recycle. Laptops can be very difficult to take apart due to the use of glue and screws in manufacture. Using ‘Design for Disassembly’ principles, Concept Luna can be taken apart in just 45 seconds. Tree Hugger has the story of its design here

Making Britain’s aged, leaky housing stock more energy efficient is a major design and policy challenge. The Economist has a great interactive feature on how just one house, 47 Greenleaf Road in Walthamstow, London, was retrofitted to achieve an 84% reduction in energy use. Story here

Also in Walthamstow, The Guardian reports on an artist-led initiative that may see one street “become its own power station, with solar energy for 30 homes”. Artists and filmmakers Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell have led the project, named Power Station. More here

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