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Humanscale
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Viewpoints
How Humanscale Is Navigating the Rocky Shoals of Sustainability
By rethinking product ownership, repair, and take-back, the furniture manufacturer hopes to push circularity forward.
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How the Furniture Industry is Stepping Up on Circularity
Responding to new studies on the environmental impact of furniture, manufacturers, dealers, and start-ups are accelerating their carbon and circularity initiatives.
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Products
5 Sustainable Design Products Show Us What They’re Made Of
Metropolis unpacks the certifications, ratings, and ingredients lists of some of the year’s greenest design products.
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Products
The Path Chair Is Humanscale’s Latest Carbon-Negative Product
Having already rolled out 25 items whose production actually helps remove carbon from the atmosphere, Humanscale is now launching its most sustainable task chair yet.
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Profiles
Jane Abernethy Insists on Walking the Talk
Humanscale’s chief sustainability officer, and a part of this year's Metropolis Specify Hot List, has led the company through dozens of green product certifications.
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The Global Impact of Material Transparency
Humanscale shows that material transparency and eliminating toxic ingredients have impacts that reach beyond the consumer.
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More Good than Harm: How Humanscale Reduced Carbon Emissions with a Lightbulb
The company is exploring every avenue to offset the carbon footprint of its manufacturing and operations—and then going further.
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Products
Humanscale’s New Four-Way Stretch Fabric Is Living Product Challenge–Compliant
Made with a satin base weave, the Fourtis textile features a two-color construction and a black warp that works best for an earthy palette.
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Viewpoints
Sustainability Glossary: Circular Economy
As part of the Metropolis Perspective: Sustainability special issue, we asked experts to provide refreshed definitions of key sustainability concepts.
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Viewpoints
At FXCollaborative, Architects and a Manufacturer Explore How to Make Sustainable Design a Reality
The discussion, part of Metropolis's Perspective event series, delved into the challenges of deeply ingraining sustainable products and strategies.
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Viewpoints
Metropolis Launches Two-Day Symposium Devoted to Sustainability
Part of a broader, year-and-a-half-long probe into the definition of sustainable design, the magazine hosted a series of panels as part of its "Perspective" event series.
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Viewpoints
Architects, Armed with Data, Are Seeing the Workplace Like Never Before
Today’s designers are taking an increasingly sophisticated approach to workplace design, using sensors, internet-connected furniture and fixtures, and data analytics to study offices in real time.
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Programs
What Wellness Means in the Workplace
Our "State of Design: Where We Work" panel discussion series, concludes with conversation about wellness.
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Viewpoints
The Best Ergonomic Design Features Are “Invisible”
An ergonomics expert discusses how design needs to better understand the human body.
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Projects
“Illuminating the Future” of Lighting Design
Panel event featuring three key members of the design community discusses new changes in lighting.
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Products
In This Age of Ubiquitous Computing, What Are We Doing to Our Bodies?
In this age of ubiquitous computing, what exactly are we doing to our bodies?
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Projects
Niels Diffrient: “Design Is Not Art Because Art Is Useless”
Niels Diffrient is a tinkerer, a fixer, and an ever-restless experimenter