The Centre’s first exhibition foray into the world of building technology showcases new technology and technique, which are rapidly transforming the built environment in New York and around the globe. Through full-scale models, videos, technical drawings and hands-on samples, innovations in construction and design that are aimed to help architects make a sustainable built environment for the 21st century are explored. The themes in the Innovation section cover material advancement, energy harvesting and daylight optimisation, while Integrate takes visitors on a behind-the-scenes tour of project delivery through three related topics: construction technologies, construction management, and construction logistics.

If you think that Highway to Hell sounds like perfect funeral music then maybe this exhibition won’t be on your playlist. However, for those for whom AC/DC isn’t about electric currents, this show celebrates the history, music, performance and creativity of one of the world’s biggest rock bands. They’ve been around long enough to have three generations of followers and have sold a massive 200 million albums worldwide since 1975. Here costumes, original instruments, stage props, photographs and rare hand-written material such as letters, notebooks and lyrics come together, with Angus Young’s schoolboy uniform and Gibson guitar naturally making an appearance. (www.acdcfamilyjewels.com)

Present in many cultural traditions and loaded with symbolism of the human condition, this exhibition reviews the concept and representation of the labyrinth throughout history, making a clear distinction between single-path labyrinths and mazes, labyrinths with a choice of paths, and reflecting on the relevance of this element and different practices and uses today. The show comprises a series of varied spaces illustrated by works from a number of different sources, formats, authors and periods, such as archaeological pieces, engravings, photographs, maps, screenings and models, plus specially created audiovisual, animated and interactive pieces.

‘Fashion made from recycled polyester?’ is one of the questions asked by ReTHINK!, which through sustainable fashion, interior textiles and product design, examines the challenges associated with sustainable design. Acknowledging the textile industry as a highly-polluting sector, this exhibition looks at new strategies from base materials to recycling and having invited a number of designers to work on the theme in the Museum’s TextielLab, it includes the 3D knitting of Christien Meindertsma, who in her search for a supplier of Merino wool nearer to home than New Zealand, found a sheep farm in Aarle-Rixtel, the only one that breeds Merino sheep in the Netherlands.

In Contriving Inquiries Seelevel presents six representatives of the current generation of photographers who - in an exploratory way - pursue staged photography. By creating an illusory reality they examine, question and criticise our conditioned perception of reality, thereby also searching for the boundaries between fantasy and reality. Participating photographers include Sofie van Dam, Freudenthal/Verhagen, Astrid Hermes, Ellen Kooi, Brigida Mendes and Nadine Tasseel. Seelevel is a gallery for Dutch photography talents that organises contemporary exhibitions in different locations – this time in a monumental canal house (Het Magazijn).

For its first show at this gallery, Dutch design studio Makkink & Bey (Rianne Makkink & Jurgen Bey) has created a site-specific walk through the three-dimensional landscape of a rural village. Resonate with the designers’ narrative based processes, Mohair woollen blankets hang on a clothesline giving shape to the space and dividing it. The woollen blankets were produced at the Audax Textielmuseum’s workshop, Textilelab, in Tilburg, Netherlands, and the five patterns and ten colour combinations are limited to 20 pieces of each, which are available exclusively at HELMRINDERKNECHT.

An international group exhibition that focuses on contemporary artists who have drawn inspiration from science fiction. As a genre, science fiction has often served as a barometer for the dominant culture or the political climate. What remains when we take away all the mutants, other-worldly aliens, spaceships and time travellers, is the genre’s fundamental question: What is a human? The exhibition presents works by some 20 artists from different countries and periods, including John McCracken, Mike Kelley, Bjørn Dahlem, Sun Ra, Ride 1 and Nathalie Melikian, along with original drawings for films such as Barbarella and Metropolis.

‘How can architecture and urban planning provide answers to the current urban challenges in Brussels?’ is the headline question for this exhibition. With the Belgian capital’s population set to grow in the coming years, issues such as jobs, mobility and public amenities will be intensified and in the search for answers, this presentation looks to other major European major cities for solutions. Models, films, plans, photographs and a selection of projects designed by the likes of Rem Koolhaas/OMA, Peter Zumthor, MVRDV, Lacaton & Vassal, Christ & Gantenbein and Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen explore the potential of future visions.

This exhibition, developed by the Danish-Dutch architectural firm Powerhouse Company, examines the legitimacy of architecture against the backdrop of the current economic crisis. The authors look at the construction industry and the economic, social and cultural mechanisms behind it. A collaborative project with NAiM / Bureau Europa and A10, Rien ne va Plus started as a research project (reader published Jan 09) based on Powerhouse’s assumption that we are today witnessing three crises. First, an economic crisis caused by excessive speculation on housing, secondly, an environmental crisis giving rise to unprecedented climate changes and thirdly, a generational crisis caused by the retirement of the biggest generation ever.

Fashion books in for an overnight stay at Bilbao’s Hotel Meliá and brings along guests Mr & Ms Art-Trend for this event. An intriguing sounding venture, each participating artist will represent and create their individual world in one of the Hotel’s rooms. For this third edition the call for entries was extended to 50 national and international artists and designers and in the two previous years exhibitors have come from Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Belgium and Spain itself. Trend bloggers and the fashion & art crowd – room service can expect an event that mixes anything from jewellery to chocolate fragrance with live music and performances.