WHEREING: A Podcast about Belonging and Design Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:49:53 -0500 https://www.thewhereing.com en-us © 2026 WHEREING: A Podcast about Belonging and Design yes 9f33b66c-3ea7-521c-b55d-5635f9fd0d73 Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing episodic false

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Where Are You?...is a basic existential question.

Where do you belong?

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At WHEREING we talk with designers, artists, poets, healers, writers, educators...and regular wonderful everyday people who think about belonging ...perhaps YOU. We talk about our connections or disconnections with spaces or objects, and how we equally impact the spaces that impact us.

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Our talks will be based on four categories. We call them the 'neighborhoods'. They are Transiency and Stasis, Places I Cannot Change, Aesthetic Aging and Belonging/s.

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The first season of WHEREING will have 12 episodes, with interviews featured twice a month.

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Visit the Whereing website here: https://www.thewhereing.com

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welcome@thewhereing.com]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Design, Mindfulness, Space, Psychology, Architecture, Belonging, Presence, Relationships, Home, Creativity, Memories, Aging Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing https://storage.buzzsprout.com/xe0bqsp7ucq50eu769ek191h4fnj?.jpg WHEREING: A Podcast about Belonging and Design https://www.thewhereing.com ALLEYS | NILI PORTUGALI | Architect . Filmmaker. Author ALLEYS | NILI PORTUGALI | Architect . Filmmaker. Author A seventh generation descendent of family who lived in Sefad, Israel, the city where mystical scholars of the Kabbalah found refuge in the 16th Century; Nili Portugali is an architect, filmmaker and author. We discuss her film “And the Alley She Whitewashed in Light Blue”, a stunning, poetic, visual masterpiece of the seasonal rituals in her Grandmother Rivka’s hotel, at the end of an alley in that old city. The film is one of her many works which seek to find a universal answer to the question “What is the basis of all those places in which one feels at home, and wants to return to, again and again?”

]]> A seventh generation descendent of family who lived in Sefad, Israel, the city where mystical scholars of the Kabbalah found refuge in the 16th Century; Nili Portugali is an architect, filmmaker and author. We discuss her film “And the Alley She Whitewashed in Light Blue”, a stunning, poetic, visual masterpiece of the seasonal rituals in her Grandmother Rivka’s hotel, at the end of an alley in that old city. The film is one of her many works which seek to find a universal answer to the question “What is the basis of all those places in which one feels at home, and wants to return to, again and again?”

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-13042186 Wed, 14 Jun 2023 19:00:00 -0400 1971 ARCHITECTURE, PLACE, HOME, WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE, ISRAELI ARCHITECTS, KABBALAH, SEFAD, TSEFAT, BHUDDISM, MEDITATION, BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ART AND DESIGN, TECHNION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 3 2 full false SHARING SACRED LAND | SULAIMAN KHATIB SHARING SACRED LAND | SULAIMAN KHATIB Sulaiman Khatib grew up in a small Palestinian village, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.  At the age of 14, he and his friend received long jail sentences for stabbing and injuring two Israeli soldiers. In the jail library he studied the history of the Jewish people, and began to understand that there were equally compelling narratives to both sides. A reconstructed perspective of non-violence, further impacted  by hunger strikes in jail,  seeded his future dedication to peace and reconciliation work. In 2005 he cofounded the Combatants for Peace, an organization created by Palestinian and Israeli former fighters and victims of violence. Combatants for Peace is modeled on humanistic values of empathy, forgiveness and mutual respect for a future of peace on the sacred homeland that both Palestinians and Israelis love, fighting not each other - but the common enemy of hatred and fear. Nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize, his transformative journey and visionary optimism is rooted in a deep love of the land, ancient wisdom, and spirituality.

]]> Sulaiman Khatib grew up in a small Palestinian village, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.  At the age of 14, he and his friend received long jail sentences for stabbing and injuring two Israeli soldiers. In the jail library he studied the history of the Jewish people, and began to understand that there were equally compelling narratives to both sides. A reconstructed perspective of non-violence, further impacted  by hunger strikes in jail,  seeded his future dedication to peace and reconciliation work. In 2005 he cofounded the Combatants for Peace, an organization created by Palestinian and Israeli former fighters and victims of violence. Combatants for Peace is modeled on humanistic values of empathy, forgiveness and mutual respect for a future of peace on the sacred homeland that both Palestinians and Israelis love, fighting not each other - but the common enemy of hatred and fear. Nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize, his transformative journey and visionary optimism is rooted in a deep love of the land, ancient wisdom, and spirituality.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-12114320 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:00:00 -0500 2685 PEACE, PALESTINE, ISRAEL, COMBATANTS FOR PEACE, AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE, NONVIOLENCE, SULAIMAN KHATIB 3 1 full false THE FIELD OF DECONSTRUCTION, RESISTANCE AND DISCOURSE: A German Legacy Response _ DAGMAR RICHTER | Architect and Educator THE FIELD OF DECONSTRUCTION, RESISTANCE AND DISCOURSE: A German Legacy Response _ DAGMAR RICHTER | Architect and Educator Born in Germany, post World War II, as part of the generation with the ‘grace of late births’, Dagmar Richter describes the impact of that context and time on her work, identity and places she has since lived. She talks about engagement and discourse in her work as an architect and educator, as the necessary antithesis of the wall of silence she experienced when young. Her work deconstructs, exposes and reveals what is often uncomfortable, or what she calls ‘not smooth’.

]]> Born in Germany, post World War II, as part of the generation with the ‘grace of late births’, Dagmar Richter describes the impact of that context and time on her work, identity and places she has since lived. She talks about engagement and discourse in her work as an architect and educator, as the necessary antithesis of the wall of silence she experienced when young. Her work deconstructs, exposes and reveals what is often uncomfortable, or what she calls ‘not smooth’.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-10788544 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 22:00:00 -0400 2916 PRATT INSTITUTE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, PRATT INSTITUTE, ARCHITECTURE, GERMAN ARCHITECTURE, PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE, WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE, COOP HOUSING 2 6 full false ACROSS THE RIVER: BRIDGING CONVERSATIONS | KIM JORGENSEN GANE | Candidate for Michigan State Senate ACROSS THE RIVER: BRIDGING CONVERSATIONS | KIM JORGENSEN GANE | Candidate for Michigan State Senate KIM JORGENSEN GANE is a midwestern mom, a speaker, author and activist community leader; a democrat, running for State Senate in Michigan’s District 20. For this candidacy, she leads with an approach of ‘care’, informed by her deep connection and understanding of the place she has lived most of her life and its complex politics. She brings her ‘every mom’ passion to issues of class, gender and race in her still deeply segregated state, helping the public connect to their values, stories and lived experiences with how they vote.

]]> KIM JORGENSEN GANE is a midwestern mom, a speaker, author and activist community leader; a democrat, running for State Senate in Michigan’s District 20. For this candidacy, she leads with an approach of ‘care’, informed by her deep connection and understanding of the place she has lived most of her life and its complex politics. She brings her ‘every mom’ passion to issues of class, gender and race in her still deeply segregated state, helping the public connect to their values, stories and lived experiences with how they vote.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-10663617 Sun, 22 May 2022 22:00:00 -0400 1648 DEMOCRAT, MICHIGAN STATE SENATE, PRIMARY CANDIDATE, ST. JOSEPH, MICHIGAN, BENTON HARBOR, MICHIGAN, LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER, BRAVE TALKS 2 5 full false TO MARK. TO GROUND. THE SHADOWS OF PLACE: BOEDI WIDJAJA | Artist TO MARK. TO GROUND. THE SHADOWS OF PLACE: BOEDI WIDJAJA | Artist Boedi Widjaja is a prolific, international artist whose work is deeply tied to his personal experience of an itinerant childhood in Southeast Asia. Impacted by the region’s complicated entangled histories, his poetic art explores themes of diaspora, memory, cultural hybridity, identity and space.



]]> Boedi Widjaja is a prolific, international artist whose work is deeply tied to his personal experience of an itinerant childhood in Southeast Asia. Impacted by the region’s complicated entangled histories, his poetic art explores themes of diaspora, memory, cultural hybridity, identity and space.



]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-10537114 Sun, 01 May 2022 15:00:00 -0400 2714 #migrant, @boediwidjaja, #belonging, #singaporeartists, @jerusalembiennale, @substationsingapore, #architecture, #gamelan music, #singaporebiennale, @helwasergallery, @natmuseum_s, @singaporeartmuseum, @fact_liverpool 2 4 full false MEN'S SHEDS | PHIL JOHNSON, Managing Director for US Men's Sheds MEN'S SHEDS | PHIL JOHNSON, Managing Director for US Men's Sheds Men’s Sheds, an international phenomenon, with thousands of clubs worldwide, are mainly ‘clubs for older guys’. They provide a place for older men to meet, build friendships and projects, pursue their interests, learn new things, and discuss health issues. In these places, there is a comfort level to talk while working “Shoulder to Shoulder”.

Phil Johnson is the Managing Director of the US Men’s Sheds, the one who originally organized, and currently helps to grow  the organization. In this episode we hear from him about the transformative effect Men's Sheds have had on retired and elder men's lives. 

]]> Men’s Sheds, an international phenomenon, with thousands of clubs worldwide, are mainly ‘clubs for older guys’. They provide a place for older men to meet, build friendships and projects, pursue their interests, learn new things, and discuss health issues. In these places, there is a comfort level to talk while working “Shoulder to Shoulder”.

Phil Johnson is the Managing Director of the US Men’s Sheds, the one who originally organized, and currently helps to grow  the organization. In this episode we hear from him about the transformative effect Men's Sheds have had on retired and elder men's lives. 

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-10454233 Sun, 17 Apr 2022 16:00:00 -0400 1876 @usmensshedsassociation, #menssheds, #mensshedsaustralia, @aarp, #belonging 2 3 full false IF YOU VISIT MY HOME YOU WILL KNOW ME | The Home Visit | SARAH LEIBOWITS, Educator IF YOU VISIT MY HOME YOU WILL KNOW ME | The Home Visit | SARAH LEIBOWITS, Educator Imagine a radical school curriculum where 4 and 5 year old children are required to visit the homes of every student in the class. I speak with Sarah Leibowits, a lower school educator at the Manhattan Country School in New York, who has taken her class on  these very home visits for 20 years. Established as a 'private school with a public mission’,  lessons at the school from kindergarten through 8th grade, are built on the celebration of unique difference.

]]> Imagine a radical school curriculum where 4 and 5 year old children are required to visit the homes of every student in the class. I speak with Sarah Leibowits, a lower school educator at the Manhattan Country School in New York, who has taken her class on  these very home visits for 20 years. Established as a 'private school with a public mission’,  lessons at the school from kindergarten through 8th grade, are built on the celebration of unique difference.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-10367317 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 15:00:00 -0400 2284 HOME, BELONGING, MANHATTAN COUNTRY SCHOOL, LOWER SCHOOL CURRICULUM 2 2 full false BELONGING TO CONFLICTED TERRITORY: HAYA HADDAD: A Palestinian Israeli Citizen, Human Rights Activist BELONGING TO CONFLICTED TERRITORY: HAYA HADDAD: A Palestinian Israeli Citizen, Human Rights Activist In this episode, Haya Haddad, a young, driven woman, a Christian, Palestinian, Israeli citizen, delves into her personal family and communal, historical narrative of displacement, and her multiple minority identities, all which inspire her social, humanitarian and political work. She talks about the hope for integration by understanding the collective human story.

This interview was done prior to the beginning of the war in Ukraine. While the discussion focuses on the displacement experience of the Palestinians, some of the themes, although different in detail, context and complexity, correlate with the current forced evacuation of Ukrainian citizens. I thought about this a lot while I prepared the episode to air.

]]> In this episode, Haya Haddad, a young, driven woman, a Christian, Palestinian, Israeli citizen, delves into her personal family and communal, historical narrative of displacement, and her multiple minority identities, all which inspire her social, humanitarian and political work. She talks about the hope for integration by understanding the collective human story.

This interview was done prior to the beginning of the war in Ukraine. While the discussion focuses on the displacement experience of the Palestinians, some of the themes, although different in detail, context and complexity, correlate with the current forced evacuation of Ukrainian citizens. I thought about this a lot while I prepared the episode to air.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-10242569 Tue, 15 Mar 2022 18:00:00 -0400 1948 Belonging, Palestine, Palestinian Israeli Conflict, Home, New School School of Public Engagement, Kfar Yasif, Iqrit 2 1 full false INSIDE THE WHEREING PODCAST: Nina Freedman | Host INSIDE THE WHEREING PODCAST: Nina Freedman | Host This is the FInal Episode of Season 1! To all listeners, THANK YOU! From starting this naive experiment, during the pandemic, from my home, it amazes me that I have listeners all over the United States and the world. Wow! I am taking a break over the summer, and will return in September.  

This episode gives you some short Season 1 highlight clips, and ‘behind the scenes’ info about the Whereing Podcast. It is part of a recent talk about the podcast I was invited to give to the Pratt Institute School of Design, Department of Interior Design, INT Talks. 

Until we meet again in September, have a wonderful summer!

]]> This is the FInal Episode of Season 1! To all listeners, THANK YOU! From starting this naive experiment, during the pandemic, from my home, it amazes me that I have listeners all over the United States and the world. Wow! I am taking a break over the summer, and will return in September.  

This episode gives you some short Season 1 highlight clips, and ‘behind the scenes’ info about the Whereing Podcast. It is part of a recent talk about the podcast I was invited to give to the Pratt Institute School of Design, Department of Interior Design, INT Talks. 

Until we meet again in September, have a wonderful summer!

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-8846667 Sun, 11 Jul 2021 18:00:00 -0400 1323 @pratt_sod, @prattinteriors, @prattsoa, @cornellaapnyc, @standfordinnewyork, @parsons_interiordesign, @whereingpodcast 1 15 full false A LIVEABLE PLACE FOR ALL | KAREN KUBEY | Urbanist and Houser A LIVEABLE PLACE FOR ALL | KAREN KUBEY | Urbanist and Houser I speak with Karen Kubey, who is an urbanist and ‘houser’ with an enduring passion and commitment to affordable housing as the generative factor in social equity and justice. We speak about the ways to engage residents in the decisions for the design of their homes, and the need to push for generous, transformative policies, because housing is a human right.

]]> I speak with Karen Kubey, who is an urbanist and ‘houser’ with an enduring passion and commitment to affordable housing as the generative factor in social equity and justice. We speak about the ways to engage residents in the decisions for the design of their homes, and the need to push for generous, transformative policies, because housing is a human right.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-8773339 Sun, 27 Jun 2021 22:00:00 -0400 2230 HOUSING, HOME, BELONGING, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, ARCHITECTURE, WOMEN IN DESIGN, 1 14 full false MOTHER TONGUE | Felema Yemaneberhan | Architectural Designer MOTHER TONGUE | Felema Yemaneberhan | Architectural Designer ‘Mother Tongue’. What does it mean?

Is it the spoken language of home, the language of parents, ancestors, and country of origin?  Is the language of place, a rooted connection to heritage, tradition, people, music, rituals, religion? The DNA of a particular ethnic experience?  ‘Mother Tongue’ merges the past and present, a sometimes invisible gift of identity, particularly when displaced in another land.

Felema Yemaneberhan grew up in Los Angeles, but throughout her childhood she was brought back to another home, in Eritrea, north of Ethiopia, a country traumatized by Italian colonization and Civil War.  In the US, before the age of 5, she only spoke Tigrinya, the language of her ancestral home, a place where her parents still anticipate returning.

]]> ‘Mother Tongue’. What does it mean?

Is it the spoken language of home, the language of parents, ancestors, and country of origin?  Is the language of place, a rooted connection to heritage, tradition, people, music, rituals, religion? The DNA of a particular ethnic experience?  ‘Mother Tongue’ merges the past and present, a sometimes invisible gift of identity, particularly when displaced in another land.

Felema Yemaneberhan grew up in Los Angeles, but throughout her childhood she was brought back to another home, in Eritrea, north of Ethiopia, a country traumatized by Italian colonization and Civil War.  In the US, before the age of 5, she only spoke Tigrinya, the language of her ancestral home, a place where her parents still anticipate returning.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-8692134 Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0400 1716 HOME, BELONGING, MOTHER TONGUE, CPDI AFRICA, BALDWIN HILLS, 90008, ASMARA, ERITREA, DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE, CORNELL AAP 1 13 full false ELASTIC | ABSORBABLE | SPACE: LOUKIA TSAFOULIA, Architect ELASTIC | ABSORBABLE | SPACE: LOUKIA TSAFOULIA, Architect Loukia Tsafoulia is the cofounder of PLB Architectural Design and Research Studio, and teaches at the College of Architecture and the Built Environment, at Thomas Jefferson University, where she has cofounded the Synesthetic Research and Design Lab.  We speak about the book she has edited, titled ‘Transient Spaces’, and her devotion to exploring belonging for migrant and refugee populations.  Her other works examine the connections between design, technology and science, specifically the human body and its interactions with the objects and place.  One project we speak about is now being exhibited at the the Venice Biennale.

]]> Loukia Tsafoulia is the cofounder of PLB Architectural Design and Research Studio, and teaches at the College of Architecture and the Built Environment, at Thomas Jefferson University, where she has cofounded the Synesthetic Research and Design Lab.  We speak about the book she has edited, titled ‘Transient Spaces’, and her devotion to exploring belonging for migrant and refugee populations.  Her other works examine the connections between design, technology and science, specifically the human body and its interactions with the objects and place.  One project we speak about is now being exhibited at the the Venice Biennale.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-8611291 Sun, 30 May 2021 12:00:00 -0400 2333 BELONGING, HOME, ARCHITECTURE, INSTALLATION, NEURODIVERSITY, DESIGN, MIGRATION, REFUGEE, TRANSIENT SPACES, SYNESTHESIA, JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY, VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE, EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTER, PRATT INSTITUTE INTERIORS, SPITZER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTUR 1 12 full false HOME 'ON STAGE': LORI KIRSTEIN Actor | Singer | Author | Entrepreneur HOME 'ON STAGE': LORI KIRSTEIN Actor | Singer | Author | Entrepreneur As a child, Lori felt most at home sitting and napping under her mother’s baby grand piano. She says, when her mother played, ‘the notes rained down on me, and became a part of my flesh’.  A multi-talented force herself, Lori experienced a period of homelessness, which has shaped her creative process. When Lori speaks about home, she speaks about the ‘molten lava of truth’, rather than rigid structure. Home, in the most positive and present sense, is not ‘Pleasantville’. We speak about finding and building home.

]]> As a child, Lori felt most at home sitting and napping under her mother’s baby grand piano. She says, when her mother played, ‘the notes rained down on me, and became a part of my flesh’.  A multi-talented force herself, Lori experienced a period of homelessness, which has shaped her creative process. When Lori speaks about home, she speaks about the ‘molten lava of truth’, rather than rigid structure. Home, in the most positive and present sense, is not ‘Pleasantville’. We speak about finding and building home.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-8526192 Sun, 16 May 2021 12:00:00 -0400 1110 BELONGING, HOME, HOMELESS, GOODBYEGOODGIRL, WOMENLEADERS, LEADERSHIFT, EMPOWERMENT 1 11 full false MOVEMENT CREATES SPACE: SOFIA KONDYLIA Choreographer | Performer | Architect MOVEMENT CREATES SPACE: SOFIA KONDYLIA Choreographer | Performer | Architect Sofia Kondylia is an award-winning choreographer, performer and architect. Motivated by the simple truth, that ‘movement creates space’, her work, through dance, performance, physical theatre and film, explores intersections between choreography and architecture, and its impact on emotional self transformation. 

]]> Sofia Kondylia is an award-winning choreographer, performer and architect. Motivated by the simple truth, that ‘movement creates space’, her work, through dance, performance, physical theatre and film, explores intersections between choreography and architecture, and its impact on emotional self transformation. 

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-8446340 Sun, 02 May 2021 20:00:00 -0400 2417 #dance, #architecture, #embodieddance, #dancer, #dancegeometry, #choreography, #aberdeen, #space, #geometry, #danceperformance, #danceresearch, #dramaturg 1 10 full false SPATIAL FICTIONS: FROZEN DAYDREAMS | Clement Luk Laurencio SPATIAL FICTIONS: FROZEN DAYDREAMS | Clement Luk Laurencio Clement Luk Laurencio is a storyteller and master artisan of pencil drawings. His surreal, poetic drawings capture the dreams, inventions, memories and flashbacks of places he has lived, visited and cherished. He calls them ‘spatial fictions’. He says they are an invitation for pause, and wandering, in its timeless labyrinth. He probes the question ‘how is the dwelling a place of reverie and protection for the dreamer?’ His work, which has won numerous awards, depicts themes of the pandemic; loss of connection, forced enclosure, and fantasies of the future and past. When I came across his work, I was struck by the depth of his imagination and skill.  And, he is only just beginning.

]]> Clement Luk Laurencio is a storyteller and master artisan of pencil drawings. His surreal, poetic drawings capture the dreams, inventions, memories and flashbacks of places he has lived, visited and cherished. He calls them ‘spatial fictions’. He says they are an invitation for pause, and wandering, in its timeless labyrinth. He probes the question ‘how is the dwelling a place of reverie and protection for the dreamer?’ His work, which has won numerous awards, depicts themes of the pandemic; loss of connection, forced enclosure, and fantasies of the future and past. When I came across his work, I was struck by the depth of his imagination and skill.  And, he is only just beginning.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-8354143 Sun, 18 Apr 2021 12:00:00 -0400 1945 #architecturedrawing, #spatialfictions, #drawing, #belonging, #home #pandemicdrawings 1 9 full false ONE YEAR IN: COLLEGE 'QUARANTINE' | Talking with College Students ONE YEAR IN: COLLEGE 'QUARANTINE' | Talking with College Students It is one year into the pandemic. Colleges closed their doors in March of 2020.  Students weighed their decisions about how and where they would continue to learn. Where are our students now? What are the impacts, and unexpected lessons that they have learned?  

We speak with 3 students who all have different stories. Emma Bowers has had a nomadic experience. Alex Durham went home to live with family. Irene Pan is a Chinese international student, who decided to remain in the USA and study online.

]]> It is one year into the pandemic. Colleges closed their doors in March of 2020.  Students weighed their decisions about how and where they would continue to learn. Where are our students now? What are the impacts, and unexpected lessons that they have learned?  

We speak with 3 students who all have different stories. Emma Bowers has had a nomadic experience. Alex Durham went home to live with family. Irene Pan is a Chinese international student, who decided to remain in the USA and study online.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-8267538 Sun, 04 Apr 2021 12:00:00 -0400 2405 STANFORD UNIVERSITY, PRATT INSTITUTE, REMOTE LEARNING, ONLINE LEARNING, COLLEGE LIFE, UNIVERSITY LIFE, ZOOM UNIVERSITY, STUDENT LIFE, COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE STUDENT, INTERNATIONAL STUDENT 1 8 full false "OUR HOMES" IN ANOTHER PLACE | CHRYSTIE SHERMAN: Photographing Disappearing Jewish Communities "OUR HOMES" IN ANOTHER PLACE | CHRYSTIE SHERMAN: Photographing Disappearing Jewish Communities I speak with CHRYSTIE SHERMAN, a photographer who documents the loss and disappearance of Jewish communities.  Coinciding with the  beginning of the Jewish Passover holiday, her art captures themes of exodus, migration, nomadic wandering, and the longing for a homeland .... universal questions, very much alive today.

]]> I speak with CHRYSTIE SHERMAN, a photographer who documents the loss and disappearance of Jewish communities.  Coinciding with the  beginning of the Jewish Passover holiday, her art captures themes of exodus, migration, nomadic wandering, and the longing for a homeland .... universal questions, very much alive today.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-8179433 Sun, 21 Mar 2021 12:00:00 -0400 2384 Photography, Jewish, Synagogue, Passover, Diaspora 1 7 full false HOUSE CALL! ANN ACHESON: BELONGING TO EARTH, PLACE AND SELF | CREATING A HOME AT THE FRIED EGG HOUSE CALL! ANN ACHESON: BELONGING TO EARTH, PLACE AND SELF | CREATING A HOME AT THE FRIED EGG She thought she was nomad. New to to this town, she experienced serendipitous events, meetings with eccentric creatives, and a deep curiosity about the land. We hear how it became home, in a beloved, magical summer camp, once called the ‘Fried Egg'. It is a story of belonging to earth, place and self; through anchoring, listening, learning, and rebuilding with friends.

]]> She thought she was nomad. New to to this town, she experienced serendipitous events, meetings with eccentric creatives, and a deep curiosity about the land. We hear how it became home, in a beloved, magical summer camp, once called the ‘Fried Egg'. It is a story of belonging to earth, place and self; through anchoring, listening, learning, and rebuilding with friends.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-8091400 Sun, 07 Mar 2021 12:00:00 -0500 1784 BELONGING, HOME, MILL HOLLOW, NEW HAMPSHIRE, PLACE, ALSTEAD 1 6 full false JERRY ROBACK: PLACES OF RISK | PLACES OF SERVICE JERRY ROBACK: PLACES OF RISK | PLACES OF SERVICE What does it mean to live on the edge? Jerry Roback is most comfortable describing himself as a wild man, a humanitarian adventurer, a self appointed and fearless, grass roots citizen of compassionate service. He seeks to create an ‘oasis’ - the calm,  magic, rescue, and sanctuary, where need reveals itself in spontaneous encounters.  That is his home.

]]> What does it mean to live on the edge? Jerry Roback is most comfortable describing himself as a wild man, a humanitarian adventurer, a self appointed and fearless, grass roots citizen of compassionate service. He seeks to create an ‘oasis’ - the calm,  magic, rescue, and sanctuary, where need reveals itself in spontaneous encounters.  That is his home.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-7992082 Sun, 21 Feb 2021 12:00:00 -0500 1628 HOME, BELONGING, WAR, VETERAN, VIETNAM, CANCER, PEACE WARRIOR 1 5 full false KISHANI DE SILVA: HOME AND HOMELESSNESS | BUILDING SMARTER KISHANI DE SILVA: HOME AND HOMELESSNESS | BUILDING SMARTER What might resolve the challenges of sheltering the homeless? Embedded into the Los Angeles County Development Authority,  Kishani De Silva envisions a pilot scheme to test a smarter, faster, cheaper methodology. Bridging government, design, technology, and community resistance, she speaks, with hope, to the urgent need for alignment, partnership and the intangible meaning of community and belonging.

]]> What might resolve the challenges of sheltering the homeless? Embedded into the Los Angeles County Development Authority,  Kishani De Silva envisions a pilot scheme to test a smarter, faster, cheaper methodology. Bridging government, design, technology, and community resistance, she speaks, with hope, to the urgent need for alignment, partnership and the intangible meaning of community and belonging.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-7716934 Sun, 07 Feb 2021 12:00:00 -0500 1700 Housing, Affordable Housing, Homelessness, Architecture, Design, Belonging, Los Angeles Homelessness, FUSE, LACD 1 4 full false YI FU TUAN: A SENSE OF DIRECTION YI FU TUAN: A SENSE OF DIRECTION In the week of his 90th Birthday, I spoke to Yi Fu Tuan, a Chinese scholar and philosopher. He invented the phrase ‘humanist geography’ as a way to explore "how geography reveals the quality of awareness’. He writes about the contradictions of space and place as the necessary tension of the human experience for both freedom and security..... for movement and pause. With simple personal stories and observations, we are led us into his world.

]]> In the week of his 90th Birthday, I spoke to Yi Fu Tuan, a Chinese scholar and philosopher. He invented the phrase ‘humanist geography’ as a way to explore "how geography reveals the quality of awareness’. He writes about the contradictions of space and place as the necessary tension of the human experience for both freedom and security..... for movement and pause. With simple personal stories and observations, we are led us into his world.

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-7297930 Sun, 24 Jan 2021 12:00:00 -0500 1700 1 3 full false MARIA AMIDU: THIS UN-BELONGING BELONGS TO ME MARIA AMIDU: THIS UN-BELONGING BELONGS TO ME We speak with Maria Amidu, an artist, whose work explores the relationship between people and place, and what is hidden, obscured or unspoken, a clarion voice of the common experience. She unmasks the ignored, mutable stories of migration, un-belonging, and remembering - what it means to be anchored while simultaneously erased. She asks, "what part of the other's story belongs to us"? 

]]> We speak with Maria Amidu, an artist, whose work explores the relationship between people and place, and what is hidden, obscured or unspoken, a clarion voice of the common experience. She unmasks the ignored, mutable stories of migration, un-belonging, and remembering - what it means to be anchored while simultaneously erased. She asks, "what part of the other's story belongs to us"? 

]]> Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing Buzzsprout-7185487 Sun, 10 Jan 2021 12:00:00 -0500 1598 1 2 full false WHAT IS WHEREING ABOUT? WHAT IS WHEREING ABOUT? WHEREING explores ‘where we are’. Like clothing, we are ‘WHEREING’ (wear-ing) our spaces. Hosted by architect/designer/professor Nina Freedman, these are mindful conversations about BELONGING, SPACE AND DESIGN.  

Where Are You?  is a basic existential question. 

Where do you belong? Where are you most yourself? 

Where is home? Does home witness you? 

Your soul is an intimate, soft witness to places in your memory, and the stories that unfold to curate the arc of your life. Home is in your soul. You take it with you. It remembers you.

Your spaces and objects hold personal, family, community, city and cultural stories. They form a layered map, collage and embodied geography, of touch, hear and smell. They contain beautiful and imperfect fragments that describe your place in the world. At its essence, WHEREING is about the questions of belonging, where you are. 

How is your story revealed in your space? Or maybe it isn’t.

At WHEREING we talk about connections or disconnections with spaces or objects, and how we equally impact the spaces that impact us. 

These conversations will be based four categories, or what we call ‘neighborhoods’.  
Belonging/s, Transiency and Stasis, Places I cannot Change and Aesthetic Aging Occasionally we feature a great home story.  Together we will journey though a creative map of the emotional place.  

The first season of WHEREING will have 12 episodes, with interviews featured twice a month.

https://www.thewhereing.com/
welcome@thewhereing.com

https://www.facebook.com/Whereing-Podcast-100541918453722/?modal=admin_todo_tour
https://www.instagram.com/whereingpodcast/?hl=en

DREAMLAND CREATIVE PROJECTS
A mindful architectural design practice integrating psychology and design.

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]]> WHEREING explores ‘where we are’. Like clothing, we are ‘WHEREING’ (wear-ing) our spaces. Hosted by architect/designer/professor Nina Freedman, these are mindful conversations about BELONGING, SPACE AND DESIGN.  

Where Are You?  is a basic existential question. 

Where do you belong? Where are you most yourself? 

Where is home? Does home witness you? 

Your soul is an intimate, soft witness to places in your memory, and the stories that unfold to curate the arc of your life. Home is in your soul. You take it with you. It remembers you.

Your spaces and objects hold personal, family, community, city and cultural stories. They form a layered map, collage and embodied geography, of touch, hear and smell. They contain beautiful and imperfect fragments that describe your place in the world. At its essence, WHEREING is about the questions of belonging, where you are. 

How is your story revealed in your space? Or maybe it isn’t.

At WHEREING we talk about connections or disconnections with spaces or objects, and how we equally impact the spaces that impact us. 

These conversations will be based four categories, or what we call ‘neighborhoods’.  
Belonging/s, Transiency and Stasis, Places I cannot Change and Aesthetic Aging Occasionally we feature a great home story.  Together we will journey though a creative map of the emotional place.  

The first season of WHEREING will have 12 episodes, with interviews featured twice a month.

https://www.thewhereing.com/
welcome@thewhereing.com

https://www.facebook.com/Whereing-Podcast-100541918453722/?modal=admin_todo_tour
https://www.instagram.com/whereingpodcast/?hl=en

DREAMLAND CREATIVE PROJECTS
A mindful architectural design practice integrating psychology and design.

Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

]]> https://www.thewhereing.com/ Nina Freedman, Host of WHEREING Buzzsprout-5756437 Mon, 05 Oct 2020 18:00:00 -0400 165 Design, Space, Belonging, Home, Mindfulness, Architecture, Spirituality, Aging, Travel, Memories, Psychology 1 1 trailer false