Curious by Design

Adventures in Engineering and Creativity

De: Steve Alcorn

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Curious by Design describes a journey of invention, imagination, and the occasional malfunctioning animatronic.

It takes readers behind the scenes at some of the world’s most iconic attractions—from Epcot’s American Adventure to Paris Disneyland, Imagineering headquarters, Universal Studios, and other parks around the globe. Along the way, you’ll discover the secret dramas, technical feats, and creative chaos that bring immersive experiences to life.

From an untethered childhood to designing the world’s most complex theme park attractions, Steve Alcorn has spent a lifetime exploring the crossroads of art and engineering. Along the way, he’s built companies, created rides, composed music, coded operating systems, mentored thousands of writers—and still found time to sculpt a few nudes.

Spanning decades of creative adventure, this is the story of one man’s relentless curiosity: how things work, how stories are told, and how a life can be built one experiment at a time.

Told with warmth, wit, and a clear-eyed love of learning, Curious by Design is for anyone who’s ever straddled the worlds of science and art—or wondered if they really had to choose.

Whether you’re a theme park fan, an aspiring author, or just someone with a lifelong case of “how does that work?”, this book offers insight, inspiration, and a few laugh-out-loud detours.