Completely customizable, the SkyLoft can be designed around business or pleasure, and can feature anything from private sleeping quarters to an open multimedia room, conference area, business center, bar or lounge. Traditionally used to house air conditioning ducts and wiring, with SkyLoft the crown space could be reconfigured to provide additional revenue for airlines.

Contact: Sarah Matheny: smatheny@teague.com

Sidewalk grilles are commonly found in cities as a way to naturally ventilate the subway. The Flood Mitigation Design initiative sought ways to add pedestrian-friendly amenities at the street level while mitigating the storm water that can flood the subway system during heavy storms. The solution involved placing bike racks and benches over the grilles.

Contact: Casimir Zdanius: caszdanius@gmail.com

Credit: Grimshaw Design Team: Casimir Zdanius, Vincent Chang, Chung Won of Grimshaw Industrial Design for The Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York

This interactive audio installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage shares the intimate memories of immigrants reacting to the experience of arriving in New York for the first time. Custom software and location-sensing hardware control the content displayed in each audio device. Each device synchronizes with the others in that zone, enabling a social experience.

Contact: Phillip Tiongson: competitions@potiondesign.com

The ECONOLOGY LIFE Bicycle Shelter is a concept for a multifunctional public shelter for bikes. The design is friendly to the natural environment by introducing green space. A media wall aids riders with navigation and consumes minimal electricity with the use of a solar panel.

Contact: Soyoung Park: soyoung@hdec.co.kr

Credit: Song Young You and Soyoung Park of Hyundai Engineering & Construction (South Korea) and Jae Hong Lee of Spacetalk (South Korea)

The ECONOLOGY LIFE Recycle House provides a public place for trash collection that also enhances the surrounding environment. Public waste bins can be a visual nuisance when the trash is overflowing or the bins are damaged or disfigured. Recycle House gives residents place to put their trash, even to separate recyclables. The embedded LED media wall can also display information relevant to residents.

Contact: Soyoung Park: soyoung@hdec.co.kr

The Saudi Telecom Company exhibit at the GITEX trade show demonstrated many near-future technologies. STC used this venue to establish the company as the dominant communications and entertainment content purveyor in the Middle East.

Contact: Gretchen Wright: gretchenw@winntech.com

Credit: Barrett Prelogar, Franco Cagnina, Chris Vogel, Gretchen Townsend, J.J. Pieschl, Jeff Woods, Steve Owens, Roger Ngo, Yasene Almuttar and Steve Klein of Winntech

'Linear Motion' is a giant kinetic sculpture that combines art and science for a large municipal science museum. Eighteen pendulum arms suspended from the building are operated by a computer-controlled counter weight that moves them based on scientific principals. To invite public interaction, when walked on sensors in lighted pavers set the sculpture into motion.

Contact: Lloyd Cooper: lloyd@pushpd.com

The Smartstreets-Smartbin™ is an architecturally sensitive micro-garbage, cigarette litter bin designed to reduce litter from cigarettes and gum in high traffic areas without adding clutter to the street. It can be retrofitted onto any lamp or sign post by clamping two Smartbins back to back or be mounted as a single bin onto walls, railings or plinths.

Contact: Andrew Farish: sales@smartstreets.co.uk

Credit: Chris Garcin and Andrew Farish of Smartstreets Ltd. (UK)

Design for a Living World is a traveling exhibit initiated and supported by the Nature Conservancy and first installed at Cooper-Hewitt. It commissioned 10 celebrated fashion, product and industrial designers to work with a sustainably grown and harvested material from an endangered ecosystem, documenting their creative processes and explorations.

Contact: Eva Green: green@pentagram.com

Credit: Abbott Miller, Jeremy Hoffman, Kristen Spilman and Brian Raby of Pentagram Design for Cooper-Hewitt, The Nature Conservancy

The Airborne Experience is a multimedia installation in which the Battle of Arnhem is brought to life. Audiovisual projections, animated photographs, light, sound, scenery and original objects create a vivid experience. The public undergo the experience in a state of shock as though they have been fighting for five days.

Contact: Vivian Lust: vivian@tinker.nl