Justin McGuirk: Craft-orientated exhibitions and furniture that folds into crates are just two highlights of Beijing Design Week that prove Chinese design is not all about copying or manufacturing

Justin McGuirk: Plain pots and pans face off against kitsch cups in this German collection of objects showcasing the Deutscher Werkbund's quest for 'good form'

Cheers galore for the velodrome and the world's biggest McDonald's, or gasps of despair? Justin McGuirk gives his verdict on the Olympic Park experience. Now tell us yours

From ear trumpets to i-Limbs, the Wellcome Collection's exhibition looks at the way in which design and technology have enhanced the human body – and the ethical implications of this quest

Is it possible to reinvent the knife, fork and spoon? Justin McGuirk meets designers who are shaking up the cutlery world

Justin McGuirk: A new book celebrates the resourcefulness of people who innovate everyday objects – from the prisoner who carved her own dildo to the man who solved toothpaste squeezing forever

As the newly restored first edition goes on show, Justin McGuirk explores an emblem of 1960s architectural utopianism. Just don't call it a spaceship

Justin McGuirk: At this year's fair, alternative designers are turning luxury traditions on their head to focus on 'furniture hacking' – from printing chairs to building their own particle accelerators

Justin McGuirk: While Bogotá's design successes have gone awry, Medellín's iconic architecture is reviving a city once blighted by crime

Has the V&A's new show captured British design from 1948 to now? Justin McGuirk enters a world of spindly furniture, punk safety pins – and plastic chicken coops

Justin McGuirk Justin McGuirk hops on board for a first look at Thomas Heatherwick's state-of-the-art redesign of the classic bus

Intel's best-known project might be gimmicky, but its new collaboration with the Royal College of Art is full of daring