99% Invisible
Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars. Learn more at 99percentinvisible.org.
Series Episodes
100 Objects #23: Coin From the Ship of Gold
The story of the sinking of the SS Central America and the gold that sparked the first global financial panic, helped fuel the Civil War, and—over a century later—ruined one man’s life.
40 mins
6 November Finished
Zone Zero
Across the West, there's a contentious debate playing out over how to adapt homes and neighborhoods to this era of increasingly extreme wildfire risk. In Berkeley, California, it's become a particularly emotional fight because of a very specific architectural history that began all the way back in the 1890s. Emmett Fitzgerald reports on the new rules about what plants you can grow around your house.
37 mins
3 November Finished
100 Objects #22: AOL Disc
In the 1990s, AOL introduced millions of Americans to the internet with its ubiquitous free CDs, but how did the company that once dominated the internet nearly disappear?
34 mins
30 October Finished
Doktoro Esperanto
Reporter Katie Thornton tells the story of Doktoro Esperanto’s dream, and what we can all still learn from Esperanto right now.
35 mins
27 October Finished
100 Objects #21: Window from the House of D
How a women’s prison in Greenwich Village, and its unusual open windows, helped shape queer community and the modern gay rights movement.
37 mins
23 October Finished
