Harvard Kicks Up the DUST in Our Workspaces // A Lecture for Parson’s Healthy Materials Lab
Many organizations are beginning to refocus their attention onto air quality, and its ability to make or break the health of their workspaces. Adjacent to this subject of air quality is dust – a tiny substance made of fine particles of solid matter. Last week, dust and toxic chemicals were the subjects of a lecture hosted by the Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons School of Design, which is quickly becoming a reliable source of intriguing, uncommonly specific information about materials in the built world. The Healthy Materials Lab gets much of its information from top-notch research centers, and one of those is Harvard. For its lecture last week, titled “Our Global Chemical Experiment: How Healthy Building Strategies Can Reduce Exposures to Chemicals.”, the Healthy Materials Lab invited Dr. Anna Young from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to share her team’s research on how we can use healthier …
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