Introduction

At Parsons’ Healthy Materials Lab we create an extensive collection of new resources related to materials, human health, sustainability, and the environment. We have extracted key videos and support material from a more comprehensive 4-course online program, to help you build your own material health syllabus. This material will enable you to introduce your students to a consideration of human health in all aspects of design and practice.

The goal of our work and this content is to empower designers to transform the world that surrounds us, and to positively improve the built environment particularly for the most vulnerable. Please click next page to be brought to the videos and resources from experts in the fields of design, construction, science, medicine and public and environmental policy. Here you will find all you need to begin conversations on the impact that materials can have on human health.