Andy Cevallos: How much do you believe, in general, that a lot of the things we do basically evolve from what we perceive to be happening in nature? i don't know if i have a good answer for this. Maybe it's a stupid question at all. It's just sort of, it's lke hard to answer, because i'm sure, yu know, theste of things that gives us thought and solutions has to be what's around us. I think that when we're looking for ideas, you should always look for nature to like how it was solved,. And then go crazy on like everything else that you could possibly do that has nothing to do
On this special feature episode, President Bill Clinton interviews 99% Invisible host and creator Roman Mars.
Roman Mars has spent his career chronicling these bits of human ingenuity that we so often take for granted—things like the utility codes, the curb cuts, the traffic signals, and much more. As host of the 99% Invisible and, with Kurt Kohlstedt, co-author of the book The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design, his work challenges all of us to look up and around, and to think about the how and the why of design around the world in a different way.
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