Nima Shariat Zamanpour

Nima Shariat Zamanpour is an artist and design professional based out of Boston, MA. Nima is currently a designer at William Rawn Associates and an instructor at both RISD and the Boston Architectural College. He has worked as a researcher at JaJa Co, an intern at NBBJ, and in transit planning with the Santa Cruz Metro. Nima has an MArch degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and completed a triple major in computer science, economics and art at UC Santa Cruz.

At the GSD, Nima was an instructor in the Design Discovery program and taught a J-Term course on hyper-normalization in design. He has been a TA for structures, studio and digital media courses. Alongside Gabe Colombo, Nima hosts a biweekly show on GSDRadio called (im)material that interviews faculty and students on spirituality, the sacred and the occult in architecture. He served as the representative for the GSD and as the chair of information on the Executive Board of the Harvard Graduate Council.

Outside of his work, Nima's interests are a range of playing piano, philosophy, neural networks, flags, cars, calligraphy and (basic) Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. He speaks fluent Farsi and is actively trying not to forget the French he learned in high school. You can follow Nima on Instagram @waitwaitdotellme.