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Syllabus Support

Here we've created a resource to help you build your syllabus. We have extracted key videos and support material from our comprehensive 4-course program, to introduce your students to human health in all aspects of design and practice.

BFA Architectural Design Studio: “Schools and Place: The Transformational Power of Education in Lagos, Nigeria” (Spring 2018)

MFA Interior Design Studio 3: Fostering Healthier Futures (Fall 2017)

Inspired by the work of the Administration for Children's Services, which protects and promotes the safety and well-being of New York City's children, young people, families, and communities. Students adopted the focus of HML which is dedicated to a world where people's health is placed at the center of all design decisions.

MFA Interior Design Studio 3 with NYC Dept of Health: Empowering Healthy Futures (Fall 2016)

This studio designs in the knowledge that healthy buildings lead to healthy futures, empowering the community that resides within.

MFA Interior Design Studio 3: Healthy Living with Grocery (Fall 2015)

Designing affordable housing driven by healthy materials research. Students are asked to redefine health from the scale of the individual to the greater community and from the food we eat to the materials that surround us.

Teaching Tools

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Materials, their Chemistry, and Human Health

Explore this introduction to the first two courses of our online learning program Healthier Materials and Sustainable Building. This video offers a 90-minute comprehensive overview of products and materials and their impact on human health. Please share with your colleagues and students. To start, click "Present" and use the arrows on your keyboard or on the screen to begin your journey!

6. Construction and Post-Occupancy

The construction and post-occupancy phases are often the least discussed phases of the architect/designer’s process. Build a discussion around what health means to a project from design, through construction to habitation.

5. Building Materials

These documents can be used to create assignments for students to compare building materials with fundamental rules and guidelines and a sample materials analysis chart to meet the needs of vulnerable populations.

4. Design Strategies

These documents illustrate strategies and best practices for designing with human and environmental health in mind, by using protocols developed exclusively by the Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons.

3. Chemicals of Concern

These documents describe partially restricted and/or chemicals of concern demonstrating to students the limited controls that are placed on chemicals. Examples are given to present how the chemicals of concern exist in common building products, how they move through the environment and enter the human body.

2. Material Health Chemistry

These diagrams, tables, and charts illustrate the challenges in evaluating the unregulated chemicals that are present in household, personal, and building products. These references can be used to set a chemical priority strategy while offering a framework for Green Chemistry.

1. Certifications and Disclosures

The diagrams included in this section provide a simple overview of certifications and disclosures. These will enable students to assess building products and their impact on human health.

0. Material Health Overview

U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)

The documents included here introduce the issue of synthetic chemicals in the interior environment and should help you communicate to students how they impact human health. Use this as a reference to develop assignments and class exercises.

Videos

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Navigation Guide to Healthy Materials Lab’s Website

It is our goal to make our website an accessible, easy-to-navigate, and helpful resource for you. This quick video will show you how to navigate through our site so that you can make the most of your time here. We update our site with resources regularly, so please come back and visit us again!

Affordable Housing and Beyond: Addressing the Needs of All Populations

In the Fall 2018, Parsons Healthy Materials Lab and Health Product Declaration Collaborative (HPDC) hosted a discussion series on Transparency and Material Health. This Four-Part, live Discussion Series provided practical answers to questions that architectural and design practitioners are likely to encounter as they take the next steps to integrate healthy materials practices in product selection and specification in their projects.

Beyond Transparency: Improving Product Decisions with Transparency and Material Health Information

In the Fall 2018, Parsons Healthy Materials Lab and Health Product Declaration Collaborative (HPDC) hosted a discussion series on Transparency and Material Health. This Four-Part, live Discussion Series provided practical answers to questions that architectural and design practitioners are likely to encounter as they take the next steps to integrate healthy materials practices in product selection and specification in their projects.

Transparency and Material Health “In Practice” - Accessing and Using Transparency and Material Health Information

In the Fall 2018, Parsons Healthy Materials Lab and Health Product Declaration Collaborative (HPDC) hosted a discussion series on Transparency and Material Health. This Four-Part, live Discussion Series provided practical answers to questions that architectural and design practitioners are likely to encounter as they take the next steps to integrate healthy materials practices in product selection and specification in their projects.

Managing Transparency and Material Health in Practice: Introduction to Firm-Level Issues

In the Fall 2018, Parsons Healthy Materials Lab and Health Product Declaration Collaborative (HPDC) hosted a discussion series on Transparency and Material Health. This Four-Part, live Discussion Series provided practical answers to questions that architectural and design practitioners are likely to encounter as they take the next steps to integrate healthy materials practices in product selection and specification in their projects.
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