WHEREING: A Podcast about Belonging and Design

Nina Freedman, Host of Whereing
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WHEREING: A Podcast about Belonging and Design

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? . 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. . 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. . The first season of WHEREING will have 12 episodes, with interviews featured twice a month. . Visit the Whereing website here: https://www.thewhereing.com . welcome@thewhereing.com

  1. 14.06.2023

    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?”

    33 Min.

  2. 25.01.2023

    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.

    45 Min.

  3. 14.06.2022

    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’.

    49 Min.

  4. 23.05.2022

    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.

    27 Min.

  5. 01.05.2022

    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.

    45 Min.

  6. 17.04.2022

    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.

    31 Min.

  7. 03.04.2022

    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.

    38 Min.

  8. 15.03.2022

    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.

    32 Min.
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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? . 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. . 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. . The first season of WHEREING will have 12 episodes, with interviews featured twice a month. . Visit the Whereing website here: https://www.thewhereing.com . welcome@thewhereing.com

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