The Keeper
On this season of Nice Try, we’ve asked why we bring certain goods into our homes. What kinds of utopia they promise, and what they deliver...
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Avery Trufelman explores stories of people who tried to design a better world — and what happens when those designs don’t go according to plan. Season one, Utopian, is about the perpetual se...
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Listen to Nice Try!, a Arts podcast by Vox Media Podcast Network. Stream 17 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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17 episodesThe Bidet
The bathroom is our most private room in our private homes, devoted to our most private business. And the American bathroom has long contain...
The Mattress
Since industrialization, we have developed a convoluted set of cultural rules and etiquette around sleep—which often run counter to our actu...
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 worko...
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...
The Vacuum
One of the most intimate, necessary, and perhaps loathed activities of the home is cleaning. Who does this work, and how good do we have to...
The Doorbell
The American dream of a suburban house with a white picket fence cordons off the home as a haven, separate from the outside world. This pers...
Season 2: Interior
Nice Try's second season, Interior, interrogates the lifestyle technologies and products that determine the ways we clean, cook, exercise, a...
Disney World: Celebrating Utopia
Before she began writing for the New York Times, or visiting glitter factories and the Royal Wedding, Caity Weaver grew up vacationing in ut...
Herland: Reimagine Utopia
What have all of the utopias we've covered so far had in common? They were all largely driven by the will and power of a charismatic leader...
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 facil...
Germania: Architecture in a Fascist Utopia
In 1938, Hitler’s chief architect Albert Speer started redesigning Berlin for a New Order, elements of which exist today. The Tempelhof Airp...
Oneida: Utopia, LLC
The Oneida Community was founded in upstate New York in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes, a former theological student who believed that paradise...
Levittown/Concord Park: Utopia in Our Backyard
Suburban developments built in the 1950s were idyllic communities and gave many people their first opportunity at home ownership, but typica...
Chandigarh: The Modernist Utopia
Following the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru commissioned famed architect Le Corbusier to d...
Jamestown: Utopia for Whom
Most people today know the story of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, from the story of Pocahontas and John Smit...
Introducing: Utopian
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, fo...
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