Prison Design

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 spaces all affect the way we behave in any physical environment.

What is Real World: Exploring The Built And Created Environment?

​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.