Where can I listen to the Nice Try podcast?
Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Nice Try's second season, Interior, interrogates the lifestyle technologies and products that determine the ways we clean, cook, exercise, and sleep -- as we attempt to sail to the unreachable shore of a better life. Hosted by Avery Trufelman.
What is nice try?
Nice Try! is Curbed's new podcast about the perpetual search for utopian living. Listen to the first season today in your favorite podcast app. Listen to Season 1 of Nice Try! The first season of "Nice Try!" tells the stories of the world’s most fascinating communities. 2019 saw a flood of interest in idealized ways to live. But to what end?
What is nice try season 2?
Nice Try! on Apple Podcasts Nice Try's second season, Interior, is all about the lifestyle products that have been sold to us over and over, and the promises of domestic self improvement they have made, kept and broken. From Curbed and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Is Disney’s New Harmony utopian?
In this "Nice Try!" bonus episode, dive into Disney’s utopian design forays from Epcot to Celebration, Florida. New Harmony has attracted eccentric spiritual groups, social reformers, intellectuals, and artists. Her idea was regarded as "the most dangerous enemy American domesticity has yet had to encounter."
What is the go for broken podcast?
Go For Broke is a new narrative series from Epic Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network exploring the 2000 dot-com bubble... and what happened when the bubble popped. Listen w…
What is the season one of Utopian about?
Season one, Utopian, is about the perpetual search for the perfect place. From Curbed and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
When was Biosphere 2?
Biosphere 2: The Theater of Utopia. In 1991, eight people embarked on a two-year experiment to create a completely enclosed, self-sustaining ecosystem in a domed research facility in Arizona. Inside the dome, there was a …. 51 min. JUN 27, 2019.
Who founded the Oneida community?
The Oneida Community was founded in upstate New York in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes, a former theological student who believed that paradise could be found on Earth through nontraditi…
Who is the host of Nice Try?
In this episode of Nice Try!, host Avery Trufelman speaks with Paul Gebhardt, creative director and senior vice president of design at the Oneida Group; Ellen Wayland-Smith, author of Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table and descendent of the Oneida Community; and Kate Wayland-Smith, resident of the Oneida Community Mansion House.
When does Utopian launch?
Utopian shines a light on how they could inform the way we live today and how we imagine our future. Nice Try! Utopian launches on May 30, and new episodes debut weekly, on Thursdays. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere you can subscribe to podcast feeds.
What episode of Nice Try is Avery Trufelman in?
Episode 2: Chandigarh. The second episode of Nice Try! treks to Chandigarh, where host Avery Trufelman explores the modernist city’s ambitions and how Le Corbusier, his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, and a team of Indian architects composed a new narrative for India through urban design.
Who coined the term "utopia"?
And how do we get there? Utopia is a tantalizing pursuit that’s remained achingly elusive ever since the word “utopia” was coined by author Thomas More in the 1500s. Since then, there have been countless attempts to define and realize a perfect place, and with them, countless almosts, close calls, and abject misses.
What episode of Nice Try is Jamestown?
Episode 1: Jamestown. In the first episode of Nice Try!, we investigate Jamestown, the first permanent British colony in America, and how the settlement floundered and recovered, and the toll it took on the English and Native Americans.
Nice Try!
Nice Try’s second season, Interior, is all about the lifestyle products that have been sold to us over and over, and the promises of self improvement they have made, kept and broken. From Curbed and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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The second season, Interior, explores how our homes channel the pursuit of utopia
Season one of Curbed’s Nice Try! podcast investigated failed utopias — attempts to imagine new and better ways of life through polyamorous communes like Oneida and modernist cities like Chandigarh.
Episode 1: The Doorbell
Our foray into the private utopia of home starts with the doorbell. It’s a device that has transformed from an annoying buzzer to a portal to the public sphere, thanks to Marie Van Brittan Brown’s 1969 patent for a closed-circuit television home security system that could surveil the outside, to the video doorbells of today.
Episode 2: The Vacuum
Over the past 120 years, the vacuum cleaner has morphed from a horse-drawn machine that rumbled down city streets to a stealthy robot that autonomously trawls our floors. And with each new design, achieving a clean house is supposed to become more efficient, more effective, and even, perhaps, more delightful.
Episode 3: The Crock-Pot
Countertop kitchen appliances — cookers that range from slow to fast — promise healthier, easier, better ways to feed the body. These gadgets of convenience have raised the standards for how much variety and excitement one can reasonably expect from a meal. But what do we do with the time we’ve saved?
Episode 4: The Weight
Fitness trends come and go. But the weight, about as low-tech and simple as it gets, is an anchor in the shifting tides of culture. As workout equipment has become canonized within the realm of home appliances, this heavy metal object aids in our dual — and sometimes conflicting — pursuit of athletics and aesthetics.
Episode 5: The Mattress
Since industrialization, we have developed a convoluted set of cultural rules and etiquette around sleep — which often run counter to our actual biological needs for sleep. Enter the mattress: a lightning rod for sleep performance and a tool for modern self-improvement that is as mysterious and necessary as sleep itself.
Episode 6: The Bidet
The bathroom is our most private room in our private homes, devoted to our most private business. And the American bathroom has long contained a stable trinity of fixtures: the toilet, the bath, and the sink.
Episodes
Explore the hidden stories behind how we design the world we live in, and what we can learn when those designs fail. Season one, Utopian, follows Avery Trufelman on her quest to understand the perpetual search for the perfect place, the ways that search can go spectacularly wrong, and what comes after. Thursdays starting May 30th.
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