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Conté: INTRODUCTION -- Preface / Alison Mears and Jonsara Ruth -- Material health / Martha Lewis -- The green path / Winona LaDuke -- Inherited future / Maya Halden -- 1 AIR AND TOXICITY -- Avoiding toxic substances and exposures / Laura Vandenberg, PhD -- The air in there / Aaron Dorf -- Biomason: building with nature / Ginger Krieg Dosier -- 2 CARBON -- Designing with nature / Andrea Lipps -- Decarbonizing materials and climate / Charlotte McCurdy -- Aquatic remedies / Julia Lohmann -- 3 EQUITY -- Prescriptions for healthy buildings / Dr Maida Galvez -- Equity: the cycle / Samantha Josaphat-Medina -- Global goods, local impact / Ana Baptista -- 4 WASTE AND CIRCULAR ECONOMIES -- Circular economy / Kate Daly -- Building a circular future / Lasse Lind -- 5 ECOSYSTEMS: FROM FOSSIL FUELS TO RENEWABLES -- Another explosion, another fire / Franca Trubiano, PhD -- Ecosystems in practice / Martha Lewis -- Hempcrete and lime plasters / Anthony Néron -- FUTURING MATERIALS: A VISUAL ESSAY -- CHEMARTS / Pirjo Kääriainen and Tapani Vourinen -- Conclusion / Alison Mears and Jonsara Ruth

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.