Best Nina Freedman Host Of Whereing Podcasts (2024)

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ALLEYS | NILI PORTUGALI | Architect . Filmmaker. Author 32:51

1y ago32:51

32:51

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 Grandm…

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SHARING SACRED LAND | SULAIMAN KHATIB 44:45

1+ y ago44:45

44:45

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. …

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THE FIELD OF DECONSTRUCTION, RESISTANCE AND DISCOURSE: A German Legacy Response _ DAGMAR RICHTER | Architect and Educator 48:36

2y ago48:36

48:36

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 ex…

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ACROSS THE RIVER: BRIDGING CONVERSATIONS | KIM JORGENSEN GANE | Candidate for Michigan State Senate 27:28

2y ago27:28

27:28

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 ‘eve…

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TO MARK. TO GROUND. THE SHADOWS OF PLACE: BOEDI WIDJAJA | Artist 45:14

2+ y ago45:14

45:14

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.By Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing

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MEN'S SHEDS | PHIL JOHNSON, Managing Director for US Men's Sheds 31:16

2+ y ago31:16

31:16

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 …

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IF YOU VISIT MY HOME YOU WILL KNOW ME | The Home Visit | SARAH LEIBOWITS, Educator 38:04

2+ y ago38:04

38:04

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’,…

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BELONGING TO CONFLICTED TERRITORY: HAYA HADDAD: A Palestinian Israeli Citizen, Human Rights Activist 32:28

2+ y ago32:28

32:28

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 collect…

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INSIDE THE WHEREING PODCAST: Nina Freedman | Host 22:03

3y ago22:03

22:03

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, a…

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A LIVEABLE PLACE FOR ALL | KAREN KUBEY | Urbanist and Houser 37:10

3y ago37:10

37:10

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 hu…

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MOTHER TONGUE | Felema Yemaneberhan | Architectural Designer 28:36

3y ago28:36

28:36

‘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 o…

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ELASTIC | ABSORBABLE | SPACE: LOUKIA TSAFOULIA, Architect 38:53

3y ago38:53

38:53

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 bel…

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HOME 'ON STAGE': LORI KIRSTEIN Actor | Singer | Author | Entrepreneur 18:30

3y ago18:30

18:30

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 th…

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MOVEMENT CREATES SPACE: SOFIA KONDYLIA Choreographer | Performer | Architect 40:17

3+ y ago40:17

40:17

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.…

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SPATIAL FICTIONS: FROZEN DAYDREAMS | Clement Luk Laurencio 32:25

3+ y ago32:25

32:25

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…

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ONE YEAR IN: COLLEGE 'QUARANTINE' | Talking with College Students 40:05

3+ y ago40:05

40:05

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 exp…

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"OUR HOMES" IN ANOTHER PLACE | CHRYSTIE SHERMAN: Photographing Disappearing Jewish Communities 39:44

3+ y ago39:44

39:44

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.…

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HOUSE CALL! ANN ACHESON: BELONGING TO EARTH, PLACE AND SELF | CREATING A HOME AT THE FRIED EGG 29:44

3+ y ago29:44

29:44

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 reb…

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JERRY ROBACK: PLACES OF RISK | PLACES OF SERVICE 27:08

3+ y ago27:08

27:08

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 hom…

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KISHANI DE SILVA: HOME AND HOMELESSNESS | BUILDING SMARTER 28:20

3+ y ago28:20

28:20

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 an…

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YI FU TUAN: A SENSE OF DIRECTION 28:20

3+ y ago28:20

28:20

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 mo…

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MARIA AMIDU: THIS UN-BELONGING BELONGS TO ME 26:38

3+ y ago26:38

26:38

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…

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WHAT IS WHEREING ABOUT? 2:45

4y ago2:45

2:45

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? You…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Nina Freedman Host Of Whereing Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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WHEREING: A Podcast about Belonging and Design

Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing

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ALLEYS | NILI PORTUGALI | Architect . Filmmaker. Author 32:51

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SHARING SACRED LAND | SULAIMAN KHATIB 44:45

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THE FIELD OF DECONSTRUCTION, RESISTANCE AND DISCOURSE: A German Legacy Response _ DAGMAR RICHTER | Architect and Educator 48:36

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ACROSS THE RIVER: BRIDGING CONVERSATIONS | KIM JORGENSEN GANE | Candidate for Michigan State Senate 27:28

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TO MARK. TO GROUND. THE SHADOWS OF PLACE: BOEDI WIDJAJA | Artist 45:14

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MEN'S SHEDS | PHIL JOHNSON, Managing Director for US Men's Sheds 31:16

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IF YOU VISIT MY HOME YOU WILL KNOW ME | The Home Visit | SARAH LEIBOWITS, Educator 38:04

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BELONGING TO CONFLICTED TERRITORY: HAYA HADDAD: A Palestinian Israeli Citizen, Human Rights Activist 32:28

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INSIDE THE WHEREING PODCAST: Nina Freedman | Host 22:03

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A LIVEABLE PLACE FOR ALL | KAREN KUBEY | Urbanist and Houser 37:10

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MOTHER TONGUE | Felema Yemaneberhan | Architectural Designer 28:36

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ELASTIC | ABSORBABLE | SPACE: LOUKIA TSAFOULIA, Architect 38:53

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HOME 'ON STAGE': LORI KIRSTEIN Actor | Singer | Author | Entrepreneur 18:30

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MOVEMENT CREATES SPACE: SOFIA KONDYLIA Choreographer | Performer | Architect 40:17

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SPATIAL FICTIONS: FROZEN DAYDREAMS | Clement Luk Laurencio 32:25

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ONE YEAR IN: COLLEGE 'QUARANTINE' | Talking with College Students 40:05

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"OUR HOMES" IN ANOTHER PLACE | CHRYSTIE SHERMAN: Photographing Disappearing Jewish Communities 39:44

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HOUSE CALL! ANN ACHESON: BELONGING TO EARTH, PLACE AND SELF | CREATING A HOME AT THE FRIED EGG 29:44

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JERRY ROBACK: PLACES OF RISK | PLACES OF SERVICE 27:08

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KISHANI DE SILVA: HOME AND HOMELESSNESS | BUILDING SMARTER 28:20

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YI FU TUAN: A SENSE OF DIRECTION 28:20

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MARIA AMIDU: THIS UN-BELONGING BELONGS TO ME 26:38

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WHAT IS WHEREING ABOUT? 2:45

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