About Real World: Exploring The Built And Created Environment
The Real World podcast explores, celebrates, and seeks to help listeners understand and possibly improve the built and created environment which surrounds us.
We look at everything from high-rise buildings to street signs, to leggings to rocking chairs.
We examine what the world is made of, how it came to be this way, and how it functions – in sometimes surprising ways.
We invite listeners to understand that the built and created environment is designed and can be re-designed and modified.
When you know a bit more about the real world, you can understand it, use it, possibly challenge it, and maybe even enjoy it a bit more.
We explore the history of urban farming and whether empty office buildings may be the next frontier.
We examine cost, necessary resources, and output – in the form of produce – to assess whether urban farming can fill your dinner plate.
5 Feb 2025
Density of Human Habitations
Are you on the urban bandwagon?
Many of today’s urban advocates urge people to move to densely packed urban environments, urging it as a social good.
We explore the link between density and creativity. We examine how ordinary people have voted with their feet to sort out the density conundrum – and leave you with ideas for doing the same.
22 Jan 2025
Prison Design
We explore how the physical design of many American prisons may increase undesirable behavior and even cause illness.
We learn that simple design choices like light, color, sound and the size of spaces all affect the way we behave in any physical environment.
8 Jan 2025
Telephone Poles
We explore the history of telephone-like poles in the ancient world and discover how they came to be so prominent in the American landscape.
We learn that these apparently tumbledown structures – more than 100 million – are highly engineered structures that showcase shared networks to keep us all connected, and are also creating new habitats for some non-human friends.
18 Dec 2024
Lighting in Healthcare Settings
Lighting expert Dr. Mariana Figueiro joins Dr. Ken Paller to explore how tailored lighting in healthcare settings accelerates healing for patients with various conditions, from ICUs to psychiatric disorders.
4 Dec 2024
Street Lights
Real World host, [no host name provided], explores the controversy surrounding modern street lights and their impact on our circadian rhythms and night-time light exposure.
20 Nov 2024
Wayfinding in Memory Care Facilities
Architect and designer, [Name], explores how wayfinding in memory care facilities can be improved through thoughtful design, empowering individuals with Alzheimer’s dementia to stay active and engaged.
6 Nov 2024
The Chair
This week we explore the geometry, meaning, and physical effects – including negative health consequences -- of the chairs we commonly sit upon.
23 Oct 2024
Mattresses
We explore 200,000 year old mattresses, medieval finery, space-age constructions, the social import of bedding and new thinking about the best ways to sleep.
9 Oct 2024
Traffic Regulations
In this episode, we explore roadway regulations – the invisible infrastructure that shapes our roadways.
We see how regulations come into being – not through an examined, competitive process – and how these regulations may increase danger on our roadways
9 Oct 2024
Road Design
We explore how the physical design of America’s roads encourages speed and increases deaths.
We next consider simple, cost-effective ways to modify the design of existing roadways to make people safer.
9 Oct 2024
Traffic Fatalities and Vehicle Design
We begin a three-part series on American roads and pedestrian safety. We examine first how vehicle design choices after traffic fatalities and consider what you can do to increase safety for everyone – both as a pedestrian and as a driver.
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