All Episodes

Keeping tests the clever idea (on Oki Sato and nendo)

One point for courage (on grading risk)

Distance, however close (on Walter Benjamin's aura)

Silence can clarify or corrode (on the inner life)

Access was the product (on the Whole Earth Catalog)

Intimacy draws its own architecture (on The Poetics of Space)

Nothing left to take away (on John Pawson)

The newspaper that stood up (on Josef Albers)

The overlap belongs to both (on Language of Vision)

What the eye paints over (on Teju Cole's Blind Spot)

A theory of place turned against people (on broken windows)

The wound was always the first page (on Liu Cixin)

Why some images stay with us (on Roland Barthes and AI)

The whole life of a thing (on Piet Oudolf)

Product design is not art (on the Ulm School)

I brought myself with me (on travel)

The work behind the calm (on the back of house)

The wick is only string (on making do)

Craft you never notice (on the car interior)

Through smoke (on perfume)

The prepared mind saw nothing (on scenario planning)

Every inside corner is round (on corner radius)

It felt like knowing (on learning)

The hammer that expands (on sheet metal)

Beautiful things are difficult (on beauty)

Fine is not a feeling (on feeling more)

You can't tell on the shelf (on shibui)

The shape that fits no hand (on ergonomic design)

Wanting was never the missing piece (on task initiation)

Wood turned against itself (on plywood)

The poem and the payment (on Rural Studio)

The wrist, not the brain (on neural interfaces)

When fiction leaves objects behind (on sci-fi objects)

Welcome to Soft Ratios Radio

A philosophy you can drink (on the Book of Tea)

The answer was always yours (on oracles)

Unlearning what you know (on ex-formation)

Inventing what others would sell (on Xerox PARC)