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Material Health: Design Frontiers

Healthy Materials Lab

Material Health: Design Frontiers brings together leading activists, educators, designers, scientists, doctors, architects, curators, contractors, artists and material innovators to provide a definitive overview of the burgeoning field of Material Health.

10 Simple Steps for a Healthier Lifestyle

Small day-to-day decisions have a huge impact. These simple steps to a healthier lifestyle will positively impact your health, the health of your neighbor, and the health of the environment. Day-to-day decisions also send messages to your peers, politicians, brands and to huge corporations. Being a beacon for change post-grad doesn’t have to be complicated. Start small with these 10 simple steps.
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Plastic Types: Moving Toward a Plastic Free Future

A simple guide to you identify common plastic types in your day-to-day and inspire you to prioritize healthier alternatives.

Materials Newspaper

Healthy Materials Lab

Materials Newspaper suggests a way of studying materials for design by focusing on each material's impact on human and environmental health. This publication comes from rewriting and teaching the Materials & Performance course in Parsons' MFA Interior Design program.

Trace Material Podcast

Healthy Materials Lab

HML develops Trace Material Podcast to explore the convergence of our lives with the lives of the materials surrounding us. Each season we dig into a material found in interior environments to discover what it can tell us about our history, culture, and our bodies.

Evaluation

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Curious how to begin comparing building products to a healthier framework? Dive into product assessments tools, hazard standards and key certification and disclosure resources.

Guidelines for Early Childhood Educational Materials

Healthy Materials Lab

The materials we choose for our classrooms can affect our children’s health and development, so it’s important to make informed decisions about what products are healthier and what products should be avoided.

How to Read an HPD

Health Product Declarations (HPDs) disclose the potential chemicals of concern with in a building product. Understand the key components of a HPD in order to assess a product's health impacts.
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Practices

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Healthier Cabinetry Guide

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Healthy Materials Method Cards

Discover how material health can be integrated into each phase of the design process with version 1 of this free downloadable deck.

Strategies

4 tools & guides

Forget about using the best of the worst products, master design strategies with no health hazards at all. Learn from historical precedents, material innovations, early childhood specific guidance and by material categories.

Open Source Details: Designing with Hemp + Lime

Healthy Materials Lab

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

Color x Health

Healthy Materials Lab

This vibrant guidebook centers color and human health through healthier paint options for public and affordable housing.
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Hemp + Lime

Healthy Materials Lab

What is hempcrete's role as a healthier and affordable building product? Understand industrial hemp and lime, the building blocks of hempcrete, and the feasibility of hempcrete blocks to be scaled into affordable housing projects across the United States.

PA Hemp Home: Lessons Learned

Healthy Materials Lab

PA Hemp Home is a pilot project executed to research, test, and apply HempLime insulation in the renovation of a small house in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Learn about the team’s process, lessons learned, and final results of this collaborative project initiated by DON Enterprises.
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