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.
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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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Episodes
23 episodes
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 A...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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32:51
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 his...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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44:45
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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48:36
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 a...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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27:28
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 dias...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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45:14
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 he...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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31:16
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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38:04
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 s...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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32:28
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 ov...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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22:03
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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37:10
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, r...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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28:36
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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38:53
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 expe...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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18:30
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 ch...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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40:17
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’. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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32:25
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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40:05
"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, migratio...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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39:44
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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29:44
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’ - th...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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27:08
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, desig...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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28:20
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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28:20
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-b...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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26:38