Design and Physical Health

Design can support physical health in more than the expected ways. Use of safe materials, ones that don’t off gas toxins, for example, is an obvious design-based route to physical health. Design can make our physical health better in lots of ways that don’t relate to the fundamental biology of what we breathe in or absorb through our skin, however. Reducing the stresses we encounter in our everyday lives is an important way that design can improve our physical health. …

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