about me
bio
Born in Kobe and based between Tokyo and New York, Nami is a producer and project manager, researcher, and writer working at the intersection of culture, technology, and public space. Her work as an artist considers relationships between the fluid circulation of stories, social imagination, and survival in contexts of asymmetrical power.
Currently leading projects within the social design arm of Rhizomatiks, she manages large-scale initiatives that repurpose urban infrastructure, foster civic engagement, and support global artists. Her work brings together architects, technologists, policymakers, and communities to develop inclusive, sustainable models (both hard and soft) for urban and cultural revitalization.
Nami’s background spans ethnographic research, transmedia storytelling, and international collaboration across Japan, the U.S., and Europe. Her projects have been supported by institutions including Fulbright, Projects for Peace, Sony Music, and the UK Research Institute. As an RSC Interdisciplinary Fellow, she explores how storytelling and co-creative design can articulate alternative narratives of place, identity, and collective survival.
email me at nrweatherby@icloud.com to collaborate or for my full CV!
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Born in Kobe and based between Tokyo and New York, Nami is a producer and project manager, researcher, and writer working at the intersection of culture, technology, and public space. Her work as an artist considers relationships between the fluid circulation of stories, social imagination, and survival in contexts of asymmetrical power.
Currently leading projects within the social design arm of Rhizomatiks, she manages large-scale initiatives that repurpose urban infrastructure, foster civic engagement, and support global artists. Her work brings together architects, technologists, policymakers, and communities to develop inclusive, sustainable models (both hard and soft) for urban and cultural revitalization.
Nami’s background spans ethnographic research, transmedia storytelling, and international collaboration across Japan, the U.S., and Europe. Her projects have been supported by institutions including Fulbright, Projects for Peace, Sony Music, and the UK Research Institute. As an RSC Interdisciplinary Fellow, she explores how storytelling and co-creative design can articulate alternative narratives of place, identity, and collective survival.
email me at nrweatherby@icloud.com to collaborate or for my full CV!
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Selected Projects & Press
2024 Oxford University “The Royal Shakespeare Company launches international research project to explore the future of creative practice”. Oxford, UK.
2024 The Stage, “RSC announces nine fellows to lead research into sector's 'survival and growth’” by Georgia Luckhurst.
2024 “AHRC-funded international creative research projects launched”. UK Research and Innovation Arts. London, UK.
2024 “New fellows explore the big questions facing the creative and cultural sector”. Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford, UK.
2024 Documentary score. Flood of Memory. Manzanar, CA.
2024 International Exhibition. “Contemporary Landscape 2024” CICA Museum. Seoul, South Korea.
2024 Solo Exhibition. 「灯台下暗し」 Kyoto, Japan. [upcoming]
2023 Solo Exhibition. “they never told us these things,” Barnard College Movement Lab. New York, New York
2023 azine: an Asian/American queer & women’s art collective. Issue 1. Self-published magazine.
2023 Bwog “Speaking The Unspeakable: Nami Weatherby’s “they never told us these things”” by Marino Bubba
2023 Columbia Spectator “CSER Student Advisory Board, AZINE hosts teach-in on center departmentalization” by Amanda Chapa
2022 Athena Showcase. Talk given. “Unmapping Logics of Conquest: Intimacies between Stories of Irradiation from the African Congo, the Northwest Territories, Navajo Territory, and the Bikini Atoll”
2022 Barnard Movement Lab “Nami Weatherby”
2024 Oxford University “The Royal Shakespeare Company launches international research project to explore the future of creative practice”. Oxford, UK.
2024 The Stage, “RSC announces nine fellows to lead research into sector's 'survival and growth’” by Georgia Luckhurst.
2024 “AHRC-funded international creative research projects launched”. UK Research and Innovation Arts. London, UK.
2024 “New fellows explore the big questions facing the creative and cultural sector”. Royal Shakespeare Company. Stratford, UK.
2024 Documentary score. Flood of Memory. Manzanar, CA.
2024 International Exhibition. “Contemporary Landscape 2024” CICA Museum. Seoul, South Korea.
2024 Solo Exhibition. 「灯台下暗し」 Kyoto, Japan. [upcoming]
2023 Solo Exhibition. “they never told us these things,” Barnard College Movement Lab. New York, New York
2023 azine: an Asian/American queer & women’s art collective. Issue 1. Self-published magazine.
2023 Bwog “Speaking The Unspeakable: Nami Weatherby’s “they never told us these things”” by Marino Bubba
2023 Columbia Spectator “CSER Student Advisory Board, AZINE hosts teach-in on center departmentalization” by Amanda Chapa
2022 Athena Showcase. Talk given. “Unmapping Logics of Conquest: Intimacies between Stories of Irradiation from the African Congo, the Northwest Territories, Navajo Territory, and the Bikini Atoll”
2022 Barnard Movement Lab “Nami Weatherby”
Selected Residencies & Grants
2024: iF Fellowship. (international consortium comprised of MIT, Oxford, Stanford, Royal Shakespeare Company, Watershed, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Music Center).
2023: Sony Music Spring 2023 Audition Jury Prize
2023: Fulbright Scholarship. The U.S. Fulbright Association
2023: Projects for Peace Grant. Middlebury College
2023: Phi Beta Kappa Inductee Barnard College, Columbia University
2023: Barnard College Exemplary Writing Archives Inductee for “Biting Down on a Double-Edged Promise of Liberation: Popular Jazz Performance & Embodied Inflections of Agency in the Allied Occupation of Japan 1945-53”
2022: Lucyle Hooke Travel Grant
2022: CJC For the Arts Grant
2022-2023: Movement Lab: Artist-in-Residence
2022: Athena Fellowship
2024: iF Fellowship. (international consortium comprised of MIT, Oxford, Stanford, Royal Shakespeare Company, Watershed, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Music Center).
2023: Sony Music Spring 2023 Audition Jury Prize
2023: Fulbright Scholarship. The U.S. Fulbright Association
2023: Projects for Peace Grant. Middlebury College
2023: Phi Beta Kappa Inductee Barnard College, Columbia University
2023: Barnard College Exemplary Writing Archives Inductee for “Biting Down on a Double-Edged Promise of Liberation: Popular Jazz Performance & Embodied Inflections of Agency in the Allied Occupation of Japan 1945-53”
2022: Lucyle Hooke Travel Grant
2022: CJC For the Arts Grant
2022-2023: Movement Lab: Artist-in-Residence
2022: Athena Fellowship