The Healthy Materials Lab at The New School
- Healthy Materials Lab
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. - HML Tools and GuidesBrowse through our digital collection of tools and guides to help designers, architects, homeowners, and developers make more informed choices about building materials and health.
Material Health: Design Frontiers Hb by Call Number: TD196.B85 M38 2022ISBN: 1848226179Publication Date: 2023-02-15This volume brings together leading activists, educators, designers, scientists, doctors, architects, curators, contractors, artists, and material innovators to explore critical topics of material health in the context of the climate crisis.
- Color X Health
This vibrant guidebook centers color and human health through healthier paint options for public and affordable housing.
E-Books on Sustainable Design
The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability by Call Number: Ebook
Dictionary of Ecodesign: An Illustrated Reference by Call Number: Ebook
Materials and the Environment: eco-informed material choice by Call Number: Ebook
New Directions in Sustainable Design by Call Number: Ebook
The Shape of Green: aesthetics, ecology, and design by Call Number: Ebook
Sustainable Design: a critical guide by Call Number: Ebook
Sustainable Design: Towards a new ethic in architecture and town planning by Call Number: Ebook
Sustainability: A History by Call Number: E-book
Recommended Books on Sustainable Design
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by
If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – taking advantage of evolution’s 3.8 billion years of R&D since the first bacteria. Biomimics study nature’s best ideas: photosynthesis, brain power, and shells – and adapt them for human use. They are revolutionising how we invent, compute, heal ourselves, harness energy, repair the environment, and feed the world.
Call Number: T173.8 .B45 2002
Cause and Effect: Visualizing Sustainability by
Cause and Effect is a collection of work from around the world that reveals a credible and understandable contemporary visual language for communicating ecology. Its spectrum ranges from campaigns, posters, brochures, and digital media to interventions and guerrilla marketing. It utilizes graphic design, information graphics, and illustrations as well as photography to get its message across.
Call Number: NK1520 .C38 2012
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by
"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic.
Call Number: TD794.5 .M395 2002
The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability by
The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability ... explores the basic principles, concepts, and practice of sustainable design in a visually sophisticated and engaging style. The book tackles not only the ecological aspects of sustainable design-designers' choice of materials and manufacturing processes have a tremendous impact on the natural world-but also the economic and cultural elements involved.
Call Number: HC79.E5 T486 2006
Nature: Collaborations in Design by Call Number: NK1520 .N38 2019
Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future by Call Number: TS171.4 .F72 2019
Sustainability: A History by
Caradonna's book broadens our understanding of what "sustainability" means, revealing how it progressed from a relatively marginal concept to an ideal that shapes everything from individual lifestyles, government and corporate strategies, and even national and international policy.
Call Number: GE195 .C379 2014
Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture by
The developed world, increasingly aware of "inconvenient truths" about global warming and sustainability, is turning its attention to possible remedies - eco-efficiency, sustainable development, and corporate social responsibility, among others. But such measures are mere Band-Aids, and they may actually do more harm than good, says John Ehrenfeld, a pioneer in the field of industrial ecology,
Call Number: HC79.E5 E346 2008
Sustainability Principles and Practices by
Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability. The focus is on furnishing solutions and equipping the student with both conceptual understanding and technical skills for the workplace.
Call Number: HC79.E5 R6243 2014
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability, Designing for Abundance by
In this follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the authors draw on the lessons gained from ten years of putting the Cradle to Cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people and envision the next step in the solution to our ecological crisis: we don't just use or reuse resources with greater effectiveness, we actually improve the world as we live, create, and build.
Call Number: TD794.5 .M395 2013
Books on Sustainability in Industrial Design
Green Design, 2 vols. by
Green Design encompasses products from vastly different areas of life representing different aspects of environmentally friendly and sustainable design. This book presents around 100 products that are not only Green, but also Design: beautiful and functional everyday objects that qualify through certain principles of environmental sustainability.
Call Number: TS171.4 .L82 2013
Product Design in the Sustainable Era by
Featuring reusable products from water bottles and diapers to solar- and wind-powered goods; clocks that run by reacting with soil; air and water purifiers; coffins and urns for sustainable funerals; paper made from elephant and sheep dung--as well as eco-friendly chocolates, bikinis, guitars, energy efficient appliances and much more--this is a state-of-the-art update on the sustainable revolution in product design.
Call Number: TS171.4 .R453 2010
Design for a Living World by
Once merely conservationists' favorite buzzword, 'sustainability' has become the mandate of our times, and designers have taken up the challenge with a dizzying range of innovative forms and materials. 'Design for a Living World' is the companion book to a major touring exhibition that had its debut in spring 2009 at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York.
Call Number: NK1520 .D47 2009
Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World by
Design Activism reveals the power of design for positive social and environmental change, design with a central activist role in the sustainability challenge. Inspired by past design activists and set against the context of global-local tensions, expressions of design activism are mapped.
Call Number: NK1390 .F83 2009
Books on Sustainability in Architecture
Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change by
This fully revised edition of Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change provides unique insights into how we can protect our buildings, cities, infra-structures and lifestyles against risks associated with extreme weather and related social, economic and energy events.
Call Number: NA2541 .R63 2009
Architecture and Design Versus Consumerism: How Design Activism Confronts Growth by
Although architecture and design have long been seen as engines for consumerism and growth, increasing numbers of designers are concerned about the problems resulting from growth. But designers face a paradox of their own; in scenarios of sustainable consumption, where people consume or build significantly less, what will be left for designers to do?
Call Number: NK1397 .T46 2012Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy by Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy, edited by Etienne Turpin, brings together a provocative series of essays, conversations, and design proposals that attempt to intensify the potential of the multidisciplinary discourse developing in response to the Anthropocene thesis for contemporary architecture scholarship and practice.
Call Number: NA2541 .A735 2013
Big and Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century by
The book examines more than 40 of the most important recent sustainable skyscrapers-including Fox & Fowle's Reuters Buildings in New York, Norman Foster's Commerzbank in Frankfurt, and MVRDV's spectacular Dutch Pavilion from Expo 2000 in Hanover.
Call Number: NA2542.36 .B54 2002
Biomimicry in Architecture by
Aimed at architects, urban designers and product designers, this text looks to the natural world to seek clues as to how we can achieve radical increases in resource efficiency. It contains inspiring case studies predicting future trends.
Call Number: NA2543.B56 P39 2011
Design with Climate: Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism by
First published in 1963, Design with Climate was a groundbreaking book in the field of environmentally responsible design and remains an important reference for practitioners, teachers, and students over fifty years later.
Call Number: NA2541 .O44 2015
Ecohouse: A Design Guide by
Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awareness of energy efficiency. Here she reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that lie behind the realisation of her ideals.
Call Number: TH4860 .R62 2013
Ecotopia 2121: a vision for our future green utopia-in 100 cities by Call Number: HT241 .M37 2016
Hot to Cold: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation by
This book coincides with the "Hot to Cold" exhibition at the National Building Museum and presents 60 case studies in harsh climate conditions in order to examine where and how we live on our planet.
Call Number: NA1223.B485 A4x 2015
Hypernatural: architecture's new relationship with nature by Call Number: NA2542.35 .B79 2015
Julia Watson. lo--TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism by Call Number: NA208 .W38 2019
Urgent Architecture: 40 Sustainable Housing Solutions for a Changing World by
Bridgette Meinhold showcases 40 successful emergency and long-term housing projects - from repurposed shipping containers to sandbag homes. She surveys successful structures as well as highlighting promising projects that are still being developed. Every one is quickly deployable, affordable, and sustainable.
Call Number: HD7287 .M438 2013
Vitamin Green by
Vitamin Green provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability.
Call Number: NA2542.36 .V58 2012
PBS: Making Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
The Story of Stuff
- The Story of Stuff Project
More information, films, and resources from the makers of The Story of Stuff film.
Books for Sustainable Art Making
Beyond Green by Call Number: N6496.C52 D383 2005ISBN: 9780935573428Publication Date: 2006-02-01Catalog of an exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2005-Jan. 15, 2006
The Wild Dyer by Call Number: TT853 .B6 2019ISBN: 9781616898410Publication Date: 2019-10-01Also available through
Recommended Websites
- Disrupt DesignDisrupt 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.
- Anthotypes
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.
Books on Sustainability in Fashion Design
Alabama Studio Style by
In Alabama Studio Style, Natalie Chanin, founder and creative director of the acclaimed fashion and lifestyle company Alabama Chanin, takes readers on a compelling journey of creativity, technique, and inspiration. Picking up where the celebrated Alabama Stitch Book left off, Alabama Studio Style is a craft and lifestyle book all in one.
Call Number: TT157 .C367 2010
The Conscious Closet by Call Number: HD9940.A2 C52 2019
Eco Fashion by
This book looks at one of the strongest trends in fashion, towards the production of desirable and well-designed apparel and accessories with a conscience. Eco Fashion shows the range of sustainable and ethical products available around the globe and explains the stories behind them, as well as showing how and where they make a difference.
Call Number: TT505.A1 B76 2010
Fashioned from Nature: by Call Number: TT507 .F3546 2018
Fashionopolis: the price of fast fashion--and the future of clothes by Call Number: HD9940.A2 T46 2019
The Future of Fashion by Call Number: TT560 .L55 2019
Global Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion by Call Number: TT497 .G55 2019
Over - Dressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Call Number: HD9940.A2 C54 2012
Scraps: fashion, textiles, and creative reuse by Call Number: TT507 .B693 2016
Shaping Sustainable Fashion by
The production, use and eventual disposal of most clothing is environmentally damaging, and many fashion and textile designers are becoming keen to employ more sustainable strategies in their work. This book provides a practical guide to the ways in which designers are creating fashion with less waste and greater durability.
Call Number: TT507 .G95 2011
Sustainability and Social Change in Fashion by Call Number: HD9940.A2 B87 2019
Sustainable Fashion - Why Now? by
Through a collection of essays, Sustainable Fashion: Why Now? examines the issues of sustainability that designers, product developers, and consumers confront as they create, wear, and recycle clothing and fashion. Through a lively range of perspectives, the contributors discuss new ideas for producing fashion with organic or renewable resources using socially responsible manufacturing techniques.
Call Number: TT497 .S87 2008
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles by
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys brings together for the first time information about life-cycle sustainability impacts of fashion and textiles, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation.
Call Number: TT507 .F583 2008- Substance Journal, CottonCall Number: TT497.S837Publication Date: 2022Substance is a fashion and luxury media dedicated to sustainability. Our mission is to make information about fashion sustainability accessible. We want to be honest about the environmental and social issues facing fashion today. But we firmly believe that fashion has the capacity to reinvent itself. Through our research and interviews, we shed light on the people invested in the next fashion revolution.
Wear No Evil: How to Change the World with Your Wardrobe by Call Number: TT507 .E224 2014
Recommended Databases
- Bloomsbury Fashion CentralE-books and articles on fashion and dress. (Included in Search Everything)
- GreenFILEJournal articles on environmental issues. (Included in Search Everything.)
- WGSNTrend analysis and coverage of the fashion industry. Create a free individual account for full access.
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