Climate Change and Environmental Issues: Sustainable Fashion, Industrial Design & Architecture

The Healthier Materials Lab is a design research lab at Parsons School of Design dedicated to investingating the human impact of materials used in architecture and design. While the Lab focuses on design materials, many of the findings can be applied to art making materials as well.

More information, films, and resources from the makers of The Story of Stuff film.

Disrupt Design is forging new ways of using design as a catalyst for creative interventions to help make the critical transition to a circular and more sustainable economy. We are at the forefront of developing and using design tools to positively impact the planet, so that we can redesign the now for a future that works better for everyone. We build unique experiences that transform the capacity for organizations and individuals to be an active part of the new circular, sustainable and green economy.

Using the anthotype process, it is possible to print photographs using nothing but juice extracted from the petals of flowers, the peel from fruits and pigments from plants. We’ll share instructions for making anthotypes.