Enabling Disabilities

NPR — KUOW Presents Jessica Zarin Kessin’s toy company in San Francisco caters to a unique market: disabled children. By designing for the extremes, Jessica believes she can make toys more fun for everyone.

These Buildings Have Feelings

Angel Grant Award — Stanford University — KZSU An in-depth look at the waterfront development project in Bellingham, WA, and the implications of developing the last major historical waterfront on the west coast. Music by Nataly Dawn and Selwyn-Lloyd. Special

One Man’s Trash

Stanford Storytelling Project — KZSU A show exploring our mysterious relationship with things we discard. Features stories about small-scale composting, art programs in city dumps, estate sales, and fabric redistribution.

Born Into a World of Things

Stanford Storytelling Project — KZSU Michael Shanks, an archaeologist at Stanford, was hired by a major car company to help them find out how people interact with car interiors. A discussion of the history of design, form and function, and playfulness

No Work and All Play

Stanford Storytelling Project — KZSU What is it to be a toy or a tool? What is the difference between work and play, or is there a difference at all? Features “Enabling” and “Born Into a World of Things,” as well

Epiphony

Stanford Storytelling Project — KZSU An hour-long show about the life-changing, transformative power of sound. Features pieces about brain activity during sound and silence, an audio essay about the healing powers of Cambodian chants, and the story of a powwow teacher’s

A Portrait of War

Stanford Storytelling Project — KZSU Emily Prince is a San Francisco artist who has taken up the task of drawing individual portraits of every single American solder killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. So far, she’s drawn over 4,000–and counting. You can