Refrangible is a podcast from the Center for Design and Material Culture hosted by the Center’s Producer-in-Residence, Gianofer Fields. Each episode explores the stuff of everyday life and what it tells us about ourselves, our world, and our values. From keepsakes to clutter, from tools to trash, the things we make, use, and save carry stories within them.
Read more about our podcast and tune in below or anywhere you get your podcasts for a closer look at the material traces of our past—and what they might inspire for our shared future.
Season 3
Episode 1: What defines a “home” — and what happens when it’s taken away
Downloadable transcript forthcoming.
Episode 2: Troubling Objects and the Illusion of Luxury
Downloadable transcript forthcoming.
Season 1-2
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Season 1
Episode 4: Our Bodies and The Lessons They Teach Us
Downloadable transcript forthcoming.
Episode 3: Sewing and the Art of Necessity
Downloadable transcript forthcoming.
Episode 2: Maypoles and Our Shifting Reality
Downloadable transcript forthcoming.
Episode 1: The Home Front
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Trailer: What is Material Culture?
Season 2
Episode 1: Clothing and Identity: Who Wears What, and Why?
Downloadable transcript forthcoming.
Episode 2: Clothing and Identity: Revisiting Our Past, One Stitch at a Time
Downloadable transcript forthcoming.
Episode 3: Commodifying Culture
Downloadable transcript forthcoming.
Episode 4: Uncomfortable Objects: Art and Death
Downloadable transcript forthcoming.
About the Producer-in-Residence
Having worked at WBEZ: Chicago Public Media, Fields is an award-winning journalist and the creator, curator, and producer of Radio Chipstone, a radio program on WORT Community Radio in collaboration with the Chipstone Foundation.
This program is available through the generosity of Lydia A. Black and the Lydia Childs Eskridge Fund and the Chipstone Foundation