Jumpstart your week with our insider's guide to events in the design world. From must-see exhibitions to insightful lectures and the competitions you need to know about—here's the best of what's going on, right now.

Monday

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Through their Best Recycled Plastic Product Award, EPRO is hoping to raise awareness and showcase the latest product innovations for recycled plastics. This competition presents an opportunity for participants to further demonstrate their commitment to the environment through design.

Wemmel, Belgium. Online Competition open through October 10, 2016.

Tuesday

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nendo: The Space in Between is the leading Japanese design studio, nendo's (a studio led by Oki Sato), first large-scale retrospective exhibition. The show will deal with the challenges and related solutions that nendo has encountered while interacting with different typologies of objects and their unexplored areas.

Holon, Israel. On view through October 29, 2016.

Wednesday

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It's the last week to catch Tom Sachs' tribute to the boom box—the artist transformed the Brooklyn Museum's glass entryway into a living sound system. Sachs' surreal boom box sculptures hover between art and science—they play music and activate the space, turning the exhibit into an immersive sound environment.

New York, NY. On view through August 14, 2016.

Thursday

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The design duo, BLESS, has transformed the Vitra Design Museum Gallery into an experimental space that actively confronts visitors with their digital work environment. Their quirky creations are a humorous take on how to keep fit while at work—something almost everyone can relate to.

Weil am Rhein, Germany. On view through October 9, 2016.

Friday

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As a live contribution to Home at Arsenale, architects Yui and Takaharu Tezuka will walk Architecture With Your Own Sky participants through their practice of defining the home as an environment greatly affected by daily actions. The duo will focus on illustrating their responsive approach towards individual human activities in relation to landscapes.

Ljubljana, Slovenia. August 12, 2016 at 7:00 PM.

Saturday/Sunday

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The Plant Show is the second in a series of exhibitions at 99¢ Plus Gallery which focus on the home and the objects in them. The exhibition showcases contemporary objects with the function of bringing plant life into the home. 

New York, NY. On view through September 11, 2016.