This week, Design Line includes a call for biodiversity in emojis, designs for healthy homes from Ikea and harmful products from Amazon. Also featured is a spat about app monopolies, a collection of possible futures from MU Hybrid Art House and some much needed festive cheer.

Spying doorbells, political-architectural intrigue, rogue chatbots, and cats on chairs – welcome to this week’s Design Line.

This week on Design Line, the Playdate gaming console launches, a London landmark temporarily escapes demolition, and Netflix has a rocky first quarter.

This week’s The Design Line includes Amazon’s automated organic shopping experience, the icy perils of New York’s Billionaire’s Row, and Dries Van Noten’s collectible beauty launch.

Disegno speaks to Danielle Dean about Amazon (Proxy), a multimedia installation that has Amazon Mechanical Turk workers retell the story of Henry Ford’s failed plantation in the Amazon.

How have Amazon and its online competitors changed the way we buy books? With the launch of Bookshop.org, Disegno set out to investigate.