REPAIR IN THEAIR:
Material Care as Collective Practice
CATHERINE MURPHY
Designer | Educator | Materials Consultant
Catherine Murphy Studio | The New School |
Parsons Healthy Materials Lab
CATHERINE MURPHY STUDIO: Founder + Principal
Adaptive Reuse and Renovation
Interior Design + Project Management
Material Consultant
PARSONS HEALTHY MATERIALS LAB: Director of Education
THE NEW SCHOOL:Adjunct Faculty
Courses: Materials and Performance (Parsons, MFAID)
The Social Life of Stuff (NSSR + Lang)
Textiles + Soft Materials (Parsons, BFAID)
SEWCIAL EXPERIMENTS: Sewing, Repair, and Embroidery Workshops
TOXIC + CARBON INTENSIVE HEALTHY + LOW CARBON
90% of our life is spent indoors
indoor air is 2-5x more polluted than outdoor air
SOURCE: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Flame
Retardants
VOCs, APEs
Isocyanates
Alotisinvisible.
Bisphenols
It is fair to assume that the materials and products we buy have been tested for safety.
It is fair to assume that the materials and products we buy have been tested for safety.
86,000+ chemicals in use
62,000 were “grandfathered” in 1976
250 tested
5 chemicals (partially) restricted
➔ Asbestos
➔ PCBs
➔ Dioxin
➔ Chlorofluorocarbons
➔ Hexavalent chromium
