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May 29, 2020

Building With HempLime

In January 2020, we hosted a workshop for Parsons' Architecture, Interior Design, and Product Design students to experiment with a material that has the potential to overhaul the building industry. While hemp and lime have been used in construction for centuries, legal barriers have wiped this practice from the American memory. HML, with partners including CoExist, is reviving the tools, infrastructure, and industry needed for a HempLime revolution.
June 1, 2020

HempLime for Affordable Housing: Parsons Graduate Architecture Studio

In spring 2020 Healthy Materials Lab collaborated with the Master of Architecture program at Parsons to experiment with designs for affordable housing using HempLime as the primary building material.
November 21, 2022

Hemp Building and Elder Housing

There are many reasons we encourage building with hemplime and advocate for it as a building material. From hemp’s carbon sequestration to its natural ability to deter fire, mold and pests, it is an excellent example of a healthy building material.
November 9, 2021

PA Hemp Home honored by Fast Co’s 2021 Innovation by Design Awards

Our collaborative project, PA Hemp Home, received an honorable mention in Fast Co’s 2021 Innovation by Design Awards!
June 23, 2022

Announcing HML’s Designing with Hemp + Lime: Open Source Detailing for Architects and Designers

Learn more about recently designed and built projects using various installation methods of Hemp + Lime.
July 13, 2021

Parsons Healthy Materials Lab and PA Hemp Home featured on America by Design TV

Check out Healthy Materials Lab in a new series, "America By Design" on CBS and YouTube.
March 3, 2022

HempLime Project is a finalist and an award recipient on America by Design

Season 2 of America by Design is here, and HempLime is taking the mainstage!
March 4, 2024

First Northeast Regional Bio-Based Materials Summit

HML participated in the inaugural Northeast Regional Bio-Based Materials Summit, a meeting of bio-based material experts and activists to accelerate new building practices. 
July 28, 2022

Intersectionality: Insights from HML’s High School Intern

Lila Quinn
Every single thing is connected, from the organic strawberries wrapped in plastic and grown in Mexico you find at your local supermarket to the pro-choice rallies seen across the United States. This is intersectionality.
September 1, 2022

Will the Material Industry Cost us Biodiversity? Insights from HML’s High School Intern

Lila Quinn
Our material world is creating divides between people and the environment, constructing a plant where species go extinct every day.
February 1, 2022

Parsons Healthy Materials Lab featured in Metropolis Magazine

HML co-directors Alison Mears and Jonsara Ruth featured in a profile about Parsons Healthy Materials Lab in Metropolis Magazine.
September 14, 2022

HML Directors Awarded the 2022 Women in Architecture Innovator Prize

Architectural Record Magazine has announced the 2022 winners of the Women in Architecture Awards. We are honored that Co-Directors Alison Mears and Jonsara Ruth have been awarded the Innovators Award.
August 3, 2023

Building Healthier Beautiful Spaces With New European Bauhaus

HML accepted as members of the Community of Partners of the New European Bauhaus.
July 11, 2017

Healthy Materials Lab at NeoCon 2017

Felicity Lu-Hill
Healthy Materials Lab was invited to showcase healthier materials as part of Interiors & Sources’ exhibition, Materials Pavilion. The Lab created awareness for the toxics that are frequently an invisible part of materials and interiors. Chemicals such as formaldehyde (a known carcinogen) and Volatile Organic Compounds (compounds that become vapors and transmit hazardous chemicals into the air) are often found in common products used in interiors.
June 20, 2018

Healthy Materials Lab at NYCxDesign

Allison Sloan
The Healthy Materials Lab has had a busy month. This year the Lab participated in three events during NYCxDesign, New York’s annual celebration of innovative design from across the globe.
November 2, 2018

Why we need alternatives to petrochemical-based materials

Juliette Van Haren
Petroleum’s pervasiveness dictates nearly every facet of our modern lives and our use of it and other fossil fuels is the major contributor to global warming, but new material visions for a post-petroleum era offer alternatives.
March 8, 2019

8 Material Women For The 8th

Today, International Women’s Day 2019, we honor a group of amazing women who are making a difference in the health of our built environment. Meet these eight women, who are all actively advancing architecture, design and the building material industry toward a healthier and resource-conscious future.
June 9, 2020

2020 Role Models Contest Winner’s Gallery

Read about the winners of Healthy Materials Lab's 2020 Role Models student design competition!
September 14, 2020

Trace Material Awarded NEH Grant

Parsons Healthy Materials Lab's podcast, Trace Material, was awarded an NEH Grant to produce season 2.
August 16, 2021

Calling Parsons Alumni for Design TV! Season 1

Healthy Materials Lab seeks alumni to represent Parsons on the second season of "America by Design." Would you like to be a featured design alumni and have your work broadcasted to millions of homes across the United States?
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