![]() RM: I resisted it for a long time because I really liked the idea that the whole conceit of the show was the perversity of covering visual things in a non-visual medium. ![]() LS: Did you ever think you’d write a 99% Invisible book? Save this picture! The 99% Invisible City. They made the world a better place through an intervention with the hard surface that a lot of people didn’t question. The rolling quads of Berkeley California went out with their friends and they took sledgehammers and broke the corners off the edges of sidewalks so they can make ramps for people in wheelchairs. Interventions like curb cuts were started has gorilla interventions. It should feel possible to subvert and intervene in the city when it’s not serving your needs. the city has always been this evolving place that reflects the values of the people who live inside it. But it’s important to notice the things that are not working for. We tend to not notice thoughtful and well-designed things. In the last 10 years of doing this show, I have grown into a more optimistic person by considering all the thoughtful design that goes into the world. RM: Life is a little more joyful when you do. LS: Why should people pay attention to the every day and the ordinary? These are all designed things worth telling stories about. But we take a very broad view of design on 99% Invisible, so it can mean the design of a government or the design of you use to tell a person that they’re dying. The book is full of common objects that illuminate something about the way cities function. It had to be about actual objects that people would see and encounter out in the world. They tend to have one take away fact, which is sort of a little item that maybe isn’t the main of the story but is something people are going to remember. ![]() Everything is hanging on one person’s journey, quest, or story. Roman Mars: The podcast episodes tend to have a central story. Leilah Stone: How does the 99% Invisible team arrive at the stories you tell on-air and in the book? Metropolis interviewed Mars on both his new book and his unique insights gleaned from years of hosting the popular podcast. Composed of research and reporting from the podcast as well as brand new stories, the book (illustrated by Patrick Vale) highlights design considerations that often go unnoticed. This week, fans can also hold the show’s stories in their hands in the form of a new book titled The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design, which Mars co-wrote with digital director and producer Kurt Kohlstedt. While the show had modest beginnings in creator Roman Mars’s bedroom, it has now grown to more than 400 episodes generating over 400 million downloads. Over the last ten years, the podcast 99% Invisible has been captivating listeners throughout the world by exposing the overlooked and seemingly mundane aspects of architecture and design.
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