Jonsara Ruth

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Co-Founder & Design Director of Healthy Materials Lab

Associate Professor of Interior Design, Parsons School of Design

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Material Health by Parsons Healthy Materials Lab
Call Number: TD196.B85 M38 2022
ISBN: 9781848226173
Publication Date: 2023-02-15

Selected Articles & Publications by and about Jonsara Ruth

Ruth, Jonsara, and Alison Mears. “Each Chapter of Material Health: Design Frontiers Interrogates a Material of Everyday Production.” The Architect’s Newspaper (October 5, 2023).
Ponchione, Alissa, and Will Speros. “Cutting Edge: It’s No Secret That Healthy Materials Are the next Frontier of Sustainable Product Design.” Hospitality Design (Fall 2022): 26–28. [ONLINE VIA KSU LIBRARY]
Schulman, Pansy. “Women in Architecture Design Leadership Awards.” Architectural Record, no. 10 (October 2022): 40–41. [ONLINE VIA KSU LIBRARY]
Lillo, Andrea. “Healthy Materials Lab Co-Founder Jonsara Ruth Encourages Interior Designers to Drive Change.” Home Accents Today 36, no. 10 (October 2021): 56. [ONLINE VIA KSU LIBRARY]
Allan, Emily. “Design That’s New Again: How Jonsara Ruth Ignites Curiosity through Healthy Materials and Creative Reuse.” En Pointe (May 13, 2021).
Ruth, Jonsara. “Designing for Equity and Well-Being in the COVID-19 Era.” Metropolis (August 12, 2020).
Ruth, Jonsara. “Designing Experience.” Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture 8, no. 1–2 (March 2017): 53–66.[ONLINE VIA KSU LIBRARY]
Ruth, Jonsara. “Material Palette: Slow Matter.” Metropolis, no. 2 (September 2016): 112–13. [ONLINE VIA KSU LIBRARY]
Metropolis. “Full House: Four Firms Rethink the Multigenerational Home.” (May 27, 2014).
Di Cintio, Lorella, and Jonsara Ruth. “Erased Domesticity: An Abandoned House in Detroit”. Idea Journal vol. 13, no1 (2013):44-59.

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