Research Catalog

Title

Material health : design frontiers / Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons School of Design ; Alison Mears and Jonsara Ruth, editors.

Publication

London : Lund Humphries, 2022.

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Details

Additional Authors

Parsons School of Design.

Description

256 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map; 25 cm

Summary

The UN identifies chemical usage as a particular global concern, destructive to land, water and air, negatively affecting both human health and environmental wellbeing. Carbon pollution from production of building materials contributes to an estimated 11% of all global emissions. The challenges of growing populations and demands for extensive new building and infrastructure exert exponential pressure on a planet with limited resources, a wildly ballooning amount of rubbish and a disturbing imbalance between natural and human forces. For design professionals, the material discussion is inescapable, as architectural and design communities are well positioned to embrace and front solutions for human and planetary health threats.00Exploring critical topics of material health in this era of climate crisis, Material Health argues that there is an urgent need for new paths and practices in architecture and design in order to create healthier futures for everyone. From a multi-disciplinary perspective, it offers an overview of how design is taught and shapes our future, and how this could be radically changed through a deeper understanding of the fundamental issues threatening our planet and human species. 00The book first sets out two main themes that situate the work being undertaken in the field of material health: the importance of old and new indigenous understandings of our planet; and the climate crisis. Six thematic chapters follow, which explore the intersectional and complex nature of material health, setting out examples of material health and innovative, sustainable materials and their uses. The contributors grapple with new and long-sustained challenges in socially engaged research and practice, as well as critically reflecting on necessary changes to architectural and interior design education and practice. The book concludes by documenting exhibitions and installations which highlight material health exploration.

Subject

• Building materials > Environmental aspects
• Architecture > Environmental aspects
• Sustainable construction

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

TD196.B85

ISBN

• 1848226179
• 9781848226173

LCCN

40031658814

OCLC

• on1302184047
• 1302184047
• SCSB-14498830

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries