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An outdoor art installation in the Japanese city of Osaka used the game of Checkers to create an enriched, interactive public space. >

Thomas Heatherwick designed sleek new hybrid double-decker buses for London, and they're 15% more fuel-efficient than existing hybrids. >

Smile! The "face" atop the lighthouse is watching you. >

Alfredo Brillembourg of interdisciplinary design practice Urban-Think Tank will be speaking at Design Indaba 2012. Here he offers insight into his work. >

Spanish street artist Nuria Mora creates large and colourful origami pieces for urban spaces. >

The Madison Street Model bicycle is inspired by the vintage bikes of the 1930s. >

20+12 Design Stories from Helsinki is a journey through the 2012 World Design Capital, looking at what design can do in a city. >

The Anda Project in Argentina is a creative urban initiative to fix broken tiles on the pavements with more colourful replacements. >

The Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award calls for ideas that address issues of mass urbanisation in Cape Town. >

Functional Green is an installation that looks at ways of making urban farming really accessible. >

Design Indaba has launched the Your Street Gauteng Challenge, in aid of effecting positive social change in your immediate surroundings. >

The Post-It exhibition in Madrid looks at the informal ways in which public city spaces are being occupied and what this means for architecture. >

The South African Informal City exhibition in Johannesburg, during COP17, aims to encourage dialogue around urban development. >

Keen to try your hand at beekeeping? It might be possible to do so in your city apartment with Philips's Urban Beehive concept. >

A walking route, fireproof shacks, urban gardens and public community facilities, here are the winners of the Cape Town Your Street Challenge. >

Is it a bird or is it a plane? It's the E-volo Multicopter, a helicopter-like craft for cruising the space above the ground. >

A taxi concept for the city of Prague by HJC Design incorporates elements of the city's age-old heritage and culture. >

Spinning right round: Feats Per Minute have developed a prototype bicycle that has a record player on the back wheel. Long live vinyl! >

The Broadcasts exhibition at the KZNSA Gallery in Durban is a "visual mouthpiece", illustrating people's thoughts on important issues. >

After much deliberation and creative consultation, the finalists for the Your Street Cape Town challenge have been selected. >

Design with the Other 90%: Cities looks at how design can help to manage the complex issues arising from rapid urbanisation in the global south. >

By locking the handlebars of a bicycle, the Senza bike lock system makes it virtually impossible to steal this friendly mode of transport. >

The Vertical Village looks at ways that East Asian cities may be able to expand and develop while maintaining traditional village qualities. >

Experimenting with data and transport route design, Black Hat and Nimbus show that there’s more to an urban environment than architecture. >

A bamboo bicycle is souped up with a small motor, resulting in a sustainable alternative to urban mobility. >