What if your mood could travel with you without requiring an explanation?

TORU Systeme, a retro-future concept by Caon Design Office for Smuggler, approaches emotion through two wearable objects that communicate without words. One is a circular wrist device whose light changes colour according to the wearer’s emotional state. The other is an open-ear audio piece designed to let the surrounding environment remain audible while mixing it with whatever is being played.

For nine days, Joshua Vides worked inside the Petersen Automotive Museum with a deceptively simple premise: take five real cars, take away their visual depth, and redraw the entire room around them.

At O Days Festival 2026 in Copenhagen, sound takes a strangely quiet form. Speaker, a new installation by Copenhagen-based studio Frederik Gustav, borrows the unmistakable geometry of a loudspeaker and removes everything that makes it function as one. No sound comes out of it. Instead, the piece catches light, bodies and fragments of the surrounding festival, turning a familiar piece of audio hardware into a large-scale visual surface.

At Sanjiaodi Park in Changping, Beijing, a familiar object from the city’s everyday history has been given a new role. Designed by XISUI Design, the BK640 Bus Playground transforms the classic BK640 bus into an interactive space for children, shifting it from a vehicle once defined by movement through the city to a structure designed for movement within a park.