Nina Briggs

Nina Briggs is a designer, educator, community advocate, and assistant professor of landscape architecture in the College of Environmental Design at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

She is chief editor of the magazine SubSurface and co-author of the article “The Nature of Embodiment and Form for Design Decision Making: A Syllabus of Explanation Post-Pandemic Disembodiment.” Her practice, research, and teaching converge where spatialized policy affects human behavior. As design becomes increasingly integrative, Briggs explores how this shift will transform pedagogy and practice. Her pursuit of holistic safe-space-making through interdisciplinary collaborations fosters inclusive landscapes that are prompted by narratives of cultural wealth and dignity to benefit all. She is interested in how spatial justice can create a genuinely accessible public realm.