Nice Try!

On this season of Nice Try, we’ve asked why we bring certain goods into our homes. What ki... more

The bathroom is our most private room in our private homes, devoted to our most private bu... more

Since industrialization, we have developed a convoluted set of cultural rules and etiquett... more

Fitness trends come and go. But the weight, about as low-tech and simple as it gets, is an... more

Countertop kitchen appliances—cookers that range from slow to fast—promise healthier, easi... more

One of the most intimate, necessary, and perhaps loathed activities of the home is cleanin... more

The American dream of a suburban house with a white picket fence cordons off the home as a... more

Nice Try's second season, Interior, interrogates the lifestyle technologies and products t... more

Before she began writing for the New York Times, or visiting [glitter factories] (https://... more

What have all of the utopias we've covered so far had in common? They were all largely dri... more

In 1991, eight people embarked on a two-year experiment to create a completely enclosed, s... more

In 1938, Hitler’s chief architect Albert Speer started redesigning Berlin for a New Order,... more

The Oneida Community was founded in upstate New York in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes, a for... more

Suburban developments built in the 1950s were idyllic communities and gave many people the... more

Following the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Ne... more

Most people today know the story of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in A... more

Explore the hidden stories behind how we design the world we live in, and what we can lear... more