PAYETTE recently signed the Materials Pledge letter to design and construct with holistically optimized materials that positively impact human health, the climate, the environment and society.
In 2013, a group of architecture offices sent letters to manufacturers requesting more product transparency. As a response, last year a group of manufacturers, called Living Product 50 (LP 50), formed to provide a unique opportunity to effect industry-wide transformation by leveraging a common voice and shared practices. The LP 50 has sparked conversation within the industry, committing to manufacture safe and transparently disclosed products, while holding the design community accountable for specifying these materials.
In addition to signing the letter, our Material Research Team formally launched PAYETTE’s Material Policy last year. This followed a year of research on issues of human and environmental health surrounding the material decisions that we make as designers.
Architecture and design professionals interested in signing the pledge can contact Lona.Rerick@zgf.com. And remember to ask for transparency when selecting materials!
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.