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Soft Ratios Research
Soft Ratios Research episodes
- Nine degrees change the chair (on Edward Barber)
How can nine degrees turn an ordinary plastic chair into a second posture, without adding a hinge, lever, or instruction?
20 min - Watching people work (on creative-process documentaries)
A finished work looks like it was always going to be that way. What are the films of people still at work refusing to let disappear?
30 min - Smarter minds outrun the forecast (on Vernor Vinge’s singularity)
When intelligence beyond us can improve the tools of thought, is the future unknowable, or does the horizon just keep moving?
22 min - Curb ramps keep disagreement possible (on the smooth city)
Can a city make movement easy without smoothing away public disagreement? Curb ramps, shared power, and who carries the friction.
27 min - Houses translate the signature (on Raf Simons)
What happens when three houses translate the same designer, and why can shared taste, skilled hands, or broad authority still fail?
18 min - Pleats arrive after the seams (on Issey Miyake)
When one famous name gathers cloth, machines and many hands into a garment, how do we keep the working world behind it visible?
24 min - Depth changes who decides (on Donella Meadows)
The deeper a change reaches, the more lives it can reshape, so who gets to make it, and who has the power to refuse or revise it?
25 min - Baskets change what invention sees (on Ursula K. Le Guin)
Why does invention look like a spear thrown forward, while the baskets, care, and repair that carry life disappear from the story?
25 min - Abundance moves the tollbooth (on creative bottlenecks)
When usable first drafts become nearly free, does creative power spread, or move to whoever controls what happens after the draft?
23 min - Mould seams reveal who decides (on Ursula Franklin)
A plan can coordinate many hands, but when reality breaks its rules, who gets to revise it, and who must carry the cost?
27 min
About Soft Ratios Research
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Each episode, Hoyd Breton — a designer at Soft Ratios Studio — rounds up the research on something he wants to understand, and two synthetic voices read it back and work it through, the way one mind…
argues with itself, ending on a question. No host, nothing performed — just the thinking, a subject at a time. A public record of one person teaching himself to look more carefully.