Real World: Exploring The Built And Created Environment

Real World: Exploring The Built And Created Environment

Marisa Manley

Episodes 12
Avg. Duration 7m
Activity Dormant
Since Oct 2024
Latest Episode Feb 2025

Publishing Details

Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
Hosting
feeds.transistor.fm

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About This Podcast

​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.

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Recent Episodes

​Vertical Farming

Feb 19, 2025 6m

​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…

Density of Human Habitations

Feb 05, 2025 7m

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…

Prison Design

Jan 22, 2025 6m

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…

Telephone Poles

Jan 08, 2025 7m

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 –…

Lighting in Healthcare Settings

Dec 18, 2024 7m

We explore how light in healthcare settings can retard or accelerate healing – from patients ranging from infants in ICUs to patients with psychiatric disorders. We consider what you can do to obtain…

Street Lights

Dec 04, 2024 8m

We explore the controversy surrounding many of today’s street lights as it relates to our circadian rhythms, night-time light exposure, LEDs, and the safety of road conditions.

Wayfinding in Memory Care Facilities

Nov 20, 2024 6m

Today, we explore wayfinding – our ability to navigate to chosen destinations in the physical world. We examine the challenges of a special population – those with Alzheimer’s dementia—and how the…

The Chair

Nov 06, 2024 8m

This week we explore the geometry, meaning, and physical effects – including negative health consequences -- of the chairs we commonly sit upon.

Mattresses

Oct 23, 2024 8m

​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.

Road Design

Oct 09, 2024 9m

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…

Traffic Fatalities and Vehicle Design

Oct 09, 2024 6m

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…

Traffic Regulations

Oct 09, 2024 10m

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…

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How many episodes does Real World: Exploring The Built And Created Environment have?

Real World: Exploring The Built And Created Environment has published 12 episodes since October 2024, covering topics in Education, Society & Culture.

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Real World: Exploring The Built And Created Environment is currently dormant with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 7m.

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