Felecia Davis is an American architect, engineer and educator. She is principal of FELECIA DAVIS STUDIO where she bridges art, engineering, design and architecture. Davis is known for her work in computational textiles.

Education

Davis received her Bachelor of Science of engineering from

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

in 1982; a Master in Architecture from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

and a PhD in the Design and Computation Group in the School of Architecture and Planning at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

Career

Davis’ research explores the intersection between textiles and architecture with the aim of producing materials and objects that are responsive to their environments. More specifically, her use of

Architextiles Architextiles refers to a broad range of projects and approaches that combine architecture, textiles, and materials science. Architextiles explore textile-based approaches and inspirations for creating structures, spaces, surfaces, and textures ...

combine digital soft fabrication and computational practice to generate fabrics that can facilitate a wide range of functions. To date, Davis has developed textiles that can respond to the touch of non-verbal hospital patients; parametric tents that are able to change size and shape in response to changes in light and the number of people underneath it; as well as walls of fabric that change based on the emotions of those in the room. Currently, Davis is associate professor at the Stuckerman Center for

Design Computing The terms design computing and other relevant terms including design and computation and computational design refer to the study and practice of design activities through the application and development of novel ideas and techniques in computing. O ...

in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at

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, where she is also the director of SOFTLAB@PSU. She is also a founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective. FELECIA DAVIS STUDIO has been a finalist in many architectural design competitions.

Bibliography

* ''SOFTBUILT : Computational Textile Architectures'' (2021) .l. ACTAR. . . * ''FELT: Communication Emotion Through Textile Expression'' (2019), Technology, Architecture + Design, 3:2, 146–149, 2019 * ''Touch: Communication of Emotion through Computational Textile Expression'' (2018), Emotion and Ambient Computing Session in the HCII 2018 Proceedings, Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, Las Vegas.

References

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