We defined the medium! Also excited to see my current and former Radiotopia chums in this list.
26.06.2025 18:29 — 👍 104 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Baskets on e-bikes probably sounded like a good idea during a lazy boardroom chat.
But anyone with an ounce of common sense could have foreseen that they would become (decfacto) public trash bins (without anyone to empty them, no less). Next iteration: a built-in bungee cord ststem perhaps...
30.06.2025 07:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Of all the parts of these multiple series I'm working on about adaptive one-handed technology and design for long-haul injuries ... this is the only one that was better served without images of me or designs. Better to just let Ohren bask in the limelight and show off some of his seasonal apparel 🤩
04.05.2025 04:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Single Handed (6 of 6): Hand Lenders Point Out Adaptive Designs & Helpful Ideas - 99% Invisible
Each of the five pieces in this miniseries, leading up to this one, has considered a different subset of adaptive design problems for people dealing with one working hand, like I was in the wake of a ...
Wrapping up Single Handed, a six-part mini-series on adaptive designs for (fellow) functionally one-handed users. But there's more to come ... starting tomorrow with another arc of stories set at the intersection of design and long-haul physical rehabilitation. 99pi.org/article/one-...
21.04.2025 03:25 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Cover of The 99% Invisible City book and photos of the authors.
The Scarchitecture chapter in the book, along with a list of key related themes: Scars, change, investment, (re)zoning, Land (re)use, infill, palimpsest.
Putting the burn in Burnaby. The ghost streams chapter in the book and a map of waterways in Burnaby, including Still Creek, which is more or less covered/daylighted along its course from Vancouver into Burnaby.
A slide from the wrap-up lecture. A version of the 99% Invisible podcast 'motto,' always read the plaque' with my admonition for critical geographers: "And ... always read between & beyond the lines on the plaque."
Went fully invisible (or 99% Invisible) in my 200-level urban geography course this semester. Used @romanmars.bsky.social & @kurtkohlstedt.bsky.social's @99pi.org book, The 99% Invisible City, as the textbook, & academic geographers' writings. Getting students to critically notice the city. #geosky
11.04.2025 15:23 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Single Handed (1 of 6): Design Adaptations for Living with One (Functional) Hand - 99% Invisible
Last year, I suffered a severe injury initially rendering my right arm and hand both completely numb and paralyzed. Tests revealed severe damage to a network of nerves called the brachial plexus.…
Last year, 99pi's @KurtKohlstedt suffered a severe injury initially rendering his right arm and hand both completely numb and paralyzed .... This is the first article in a six-part mini-series that covers a range of adaptive designs for people with one working hand. 99pi.org/article/adap...
01.04.2025 15:39 — 👍 34 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
Twin Cities 99% Invisible fans: I'm organizing a 99pi meetup in the Mpls/St. Paul area. Possibly: coffee or lunch at the Midtown Market (details TBD).
Interested? Send your name & email address to kurt {at} 99pi {dot} org with "MSPI" in the subject line! #99pi #MSPI
-= @KurtKohlstedt
16.03.2025 18:46 — 👍 30 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Urban reuse is as old as cities. Wherever there has been long-term human habitation, there has been spolia, Latin for “spoils,” as in “the spoils of war” -- pieces of old architecture creatively incorporated into brand new buildings. #99pi #99piCity #Book 99percentinvisible.org/article/spol...
07.03.2025 06:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My favorite spot in Seattle, my old stomping grounds, is a green space bridging a massive motorway -- skip the Space Needle and check out Freeway Park #99pi
07.03.2025 05:46 — 👍 41 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0
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