Nina Freedman

Nina Freedman’s work spans architectural design, interior design, public art installations, teaching and furniture design. At Pratt Institute, Department of Interior Design, she teaches Graduate Thesis Interior Design studio. In the Pratt School of Architecture she has taught professional practice, materials and assembly systems. In addition to teaching at Pratt, Nina teaches  a course in Professional Trajectories at Cornell University, Interior Design Studio (varying levels) at Parsons School of Design, has taught at Stanford University and has been a Design Professor in China.

She founded the design practice, DREAMLAND CREATIVE PROJECTS to focus client and speculative projects on the impact of emotional space, sourcing from the intersection of psychology and design. Her work has a focus on the layered definitions of ‘Home’. She hosts the podcast WHEREING: A Podcast About Belonging, Space and Design.

She is a 2024 New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA) grantee and is currently exhibiting ‘Face-Ade’ at the European Cultural Council 2024 Art Biennale in Venice, Italy, which has the theme of Personal Structures/Beyond Boundaries. She has exhibited ‘Spaces for Spontaneous Singing’ at the LA Design Festival for which she was an Architizer + Award finalist, Bayer Leaps Pavilion at the Summit Festival, and ‘RiBox’at the Pomerantz Gallery ‘Picturing Space’ Exhibition.

Prior to founding DCP, Nina worked in leadership positions with numerous world-renowned architects, as Shigeru Ban, Hugh Hardy, Renzo Piano, Richard Meier and Paul Rudolph. In the Fall of 2012, Nina co-founded ArchiteXX, an organization providing co-learning workshops, cross generational mentorship and a high school prep program, to increase diversity in architecture.

Social: IG @dreamland_creative_projects and @whereingpodcast

Diploma Architecture, Architectural Association School of Architecture, RIBA Part I and Part II

B.S. Landscape Architecture, City College of New York.