About

Nina Briggs is a recognized practitioner, educator and emerging scholar actively conducting significant work in landscape architecture, interior design and architecture that focuses on the equity of space and women’s contributions to the built environment. Human behavior within the layers of cultural operating systems, and diversity, equity and inclusion as related to human health are guiding principles of her research, teaching, and professional service. Nina is a proven leader and effective collaborator with demonstrated ability to unify diverse thinkers in the pursuit of safe places for well-being.

In preparing new curriculums it is important to investigate intersecting, social and material systems to contextualize and illustrate landscapes devoid of erasure, marginalization, assimilation, homogenization, colonization, and dehumanization. These obstacles to representation and belonging are surmountable as we acknowledge the full humanity and rich contributions of all global citizens, while simultaneously recognizing that colonial history shapes the current inequalities that structure society. We need to be able to hold these multiple realities at once, as they are the keys to unlocking and supporting our future visions for a just landscape and a healthy environment. As we challenge disfunction, engage in uncomfortable, and nuanced conversation, and find comfort in truth, we shall build communities of well-being and resilience in coexistence with the natural world, exercising our pleasure and responsibility as designers to ethically reshape the landscape.

Contact

nmbriggs@cpp.edu
310.699.8084