Selected Publications about Computational Textiles and Digital Fabrication
Davis, Felecia (2024) “Stitching: an Interview” Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design, Exhibition Catalogue. Editors and Curators, Jia Gu and Kate Yieh Chiu.
Davis, Felecia, (2024) “Textural Thresholds: Dreadlock” Ed. Manuel Kretzer in Synthetic Realities: New Frontiers in AI-driven Design, Fabrication and Materiality, Art, Architecture Design Research [AADR].
Davis, Felecia, (2024) “Pop Up Rose_African Fractal. Six Rose Pop Up from the Dreadlock Series” in Design Textile Actuel, Editors Louise Pelletier and Patrick Evans, Centre de Design, Universitat de Quebec a Montreal, Canada. IBSN: 978-2-920496-19-4.
Davis F, Gursoy B, Ghazvinian A, Oghazian F, Pecchia J, West A. (2024) “ MycoKnit: Cultivating Mycelium-based Composites on Knitted Textiles for Large-Scale Biodegradable Architectural Structures.” [Design] in Knitting Beyond the Body, Eds. Linda Ohrn-McDaniel. Kent State University Museum; 2024 August. Available from: https://ksumuseum.wordpress.com/.
Davis, Felecia. Softbuilt: Computational Textile Architectures, Actar-D Press, forthcoming 2025
Davis, F., & Dumitrescu, D. (2023). Patterning by Heat: Responsive Tension Structures. In Daniel Cardoso Llach and Theodora Vardouli (Eds.), Designing the Computational Image: Imagining Computational Design. (pg. 1). San Francisco California: AR+D., ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-954081-34-5
Davis, F. (2023). Textural Threshold: Dreadlock. In Lesley Lokko (Ed.), Laboratory of the Future 18th Architectural Exhibition. (Laboratory of the Future 18th Architectural Exhibition), Venice: La Biennale Venezia. Peer-reviewed/refereed., ISBN/ISSN: 9788898727803
Davis, F. (2023). Fabricating Networks Quilt: Designing an Architecture of Social and Physical Spaces. In. (Eds.) Marieke Stoll and Christine Sauer Architectures of Weaving Rethinking Textile Construction. From Fibers and Yarns to Structural Scaffolds and Active Skins. Germany: JOVIS Verlag GmbH IBSN 978-3-86859-739-4
Davis, F. (2023), Black Flower Antenna: Calling Attention to an Invisible Urbanism Constructed by Electromagnetic Waves. In Blaine Brownell (Ed.), The Pandemic Effect: Ninety Experts on Immunizing the Built Environment. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press.IBSN 9781648961649
Oghazian, F., Moradzadeh, S. and Davis, F.( 2022) “Form-finding of Architectural Knitted Tensioned Structures” Proceedings Hybrids & Haecceities, Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture(ACADIA) October, Philadelphia.
Davis, F., Lewis, E., Oghazian, F., Evrim, B. (2022) “Tuning in: Reflecting in the Wake of Blackness through a Knitted Flower Antenna”, Possibilities, 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Barcelona, June 10-16
Davis, F. Lewis, E. Oghazian, F. Evrim, B. (2022) “Petal Antenna: An Knitted Textile EMF Sensor” Demonstration with E. Lewis, F. Oghazian and B. Evrim. Possibilities, 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Barcelona, 10-16 June 2022.
Oghazian, F., Brown, N. Davis, F.(2022) ”Calibrating a Form Finding Algorithm for Simulation of Tensioned Knitted Textile Architectural Models.” Post Carbon, The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Sydney, Aus. (CAADRIA), April 9-15 2022
Oghazian, F. Davis, F. (2021) “Game-Based Responsive Architecture: A Computational Methodology for Designing Game-Based Responsive Architectures” in Design Communication International, Georgia, October 2021
Oghazian, F., Davis F. “A Simulation Process for Architectural Knitted Textiles” in Inspiring the Next Generation, International Association for Shells and Spatial Structures [IASS], Surrey, UK, August 2021.
Davis, F. (2021) Fabricating Networks: Transmissions and Receptions from Pittsburgh’s Hill District” in Reconstructions: Blackness and Architecture in America, Eds. S. Anderson and M. Wilson, Museum of Modern Art, 2021.
Oghazian, F. Davis, F. (2020) “Circuit Game: a Craft Based Electronic Building Practice” with F. Oghazian as Primary, In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 'Emotion and Ambient Computing' Session, 6th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions at the Human and Computer Interaction International Conference, July 2020.
Davis, F., Demi-Ajayi, J., Kuo, K. Huang, J.(2020) “The Phototropic Fiber Composite Structure,” Project Presented at the ACSA Open Meeting, June 2020.
Davis, F. (2019) “Human and Design Interaction: Use of Data for Sense and Emotion”.Editor Julian Wang. Journal of Technology, Architecture + Design. Op-editorial. Ed.
Davis, F. (2019) FELT: Emotion, Space and Communication.” In Data, Architecture and the Experience of Place, Ed. Anastasia Karandinou, Routledge-Taylor & Francis Press,
Davis, F. (2018) “Touch: Communication of Emotion through Computational Textile Expression”, In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 'Emotion and Ambient Computing' Session, 6th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions at the Human and Computer Interaction International Conference, July 2018
Davis, F. and Dumitrescu, D. (2017) “Knitted Heat Active Textiles: Pixelated Reveal and the Radiant Daisy”. In Active Matter, Eds. Skylar Tibbits and Leila Kinney, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,
Davis, F.(2017) “FELT: Communicating Emotion through a Shape Changing Textile Wall Panel”. In Textiles for Advanced Applications, Ed. Bipin Kumar, InTech Publishers, Croatia.
Davis, F. and Duarte, J. Editors. (2017) Design + Computing: An Event and Conversation about Cross-Disciplinary Design Practices. F. Davis & J. Duarte, Eds., the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing. Penn State University,
Davis, F. (2015) What and When is the Textile? Extending the Reach of Computation through Textile Expression.” Real Time - Proceedings of the 33rd eCAADe Conference Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Volume 2, September 2015, 417-426
Davis, F. (2015) “The Textility of Emotion: A Study Relating Computational Textile Textural Expression to Emotion.” Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, Glasgow, June 2015, 23-32.
Davis, F. (2015) “A Study Relating Computational Textile Textural Expression to Emotion.” Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM CHI EA Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, April 2015, 1977-1982.
Davis, F., Roseway, A., Carroll, E., Czerwinski, M. (2013) "Actuating Mood: Design of the Textile Mirror”, Seventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction February 10-13, 2013. Barcelona, Spain.
Davis, Felecia. (2012)“Sensing Touch Curtain: Soft Architecture and Augmented Communication.” International Journal of Architecture and Computation 10, no. 2, [2012]: 219-236.
Davis, Felecia and Dumitrescu, Delia.(2013) Patterning by Heat: Responsive Textile Structures. Cambridge, Massachusetts: M.I.T. SA+P Press, 2013.
Davis, Felecia. “Form Active Translations: Knitted Textiles to 3D Printed Textiles.”(2013) In [Formation], Proceedings of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics [SIGRADI] Fortaleza, November 2012 392-396.
Davis, Felecia. (2012) “3D Printed Textiles from Textile Code: Structural Form and Material Operations.” In [Formation], Proceedings of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics [SIGRADI] Fortaleza, November 2012, 327-331.
Davis, Felecia. (2011) “Sensing Touch Curtain: Soft Architecture.” Augmented Culture, Proceedings of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics [SIGRADI], Santa Fe Argentina, November 2011, 227-230.
Davis, Felecia.(2011) “Telephoning Textiles: Networked Soft Architectures.” Augmented Culture, Proceedings of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics [SIGRADI], Santa Fe Argentina, November 2011, 231-234.
Public Lectures, Panels & Workshops
Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design, Panel with book editors Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu, and contributors Lola Ben-Alons, Felecia Davis, Mae-Ling Lokko, and Elsa Maki. Feb. 18th e-flux Brooklyn.
Assembly Drury University Hammons School of Architecture Public Lecture Series 2023-2024, 10 April, 1pm HSA Auditorium.
Thinking Out Loud Tulane University School of Architecture Spring Public Lecture Series, 8 April, 2024 5:30pm, Freeman Auditorium, Waldenburg Art Center, Tulane’s Uptown Campus.
Human Futures:Thriving in the Age of AI, panelist in session, “Stewarding Resources”, 4 April, 2:30pm, Decatur House, 748 Jackson Place in Lafayette Square,Washington DC. Registration required at Website.
“2024 Memorial Norma Merrick Sklarek Lecture and Workshop” Barnard and Columbia University, Wednesday March 27th, 6:30pm-8:00pm The Event Oval, Lower Level 1, The Diana Center, 2024. RSVP Required Scroll Down.
“Ruin and Reparation: (Dis)Repair in Art and Architectural History”,History of Art and Architecture Department University of Pittsburgh, Keynote, Friday 22 March, 2024.
“Textiles beyond craft:Textiles Beyond Craft” Symposium at UQUAM Centre de Design, November 30th and December 1, 2023, Montreal
“Soft Systems: Crafting an Architecture”, University of Texas Austin Lecture Series, Nov. 6th, 2023 12:30-2:00pm
“Soft Systems” University of New Mexico, Albuquerque School of Architecture Lecture Series, Marjorie Mead Hooker Memorial Lecturer 2023-2024.
“Material Variance: Material Kitchens Session” Panel and Exhibition as part of the symposium organized and curated by Lola Ben Alon, Tuesday 19th September, 2023, Columbia University, GSAPP.
“Force Majeure: a Conversation” Panel at the 18th Architectural Venice Biennale with Curator Lesley Lokko, David Adjaye, Christian Benimana, Issa Diabaté, Walter Hood, Mariam Kamara. May, 2023.
UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Design, IDEAS Campus, Los Angeles, Jan. 25th, 2023,6:30pm PST
“Notes from a Design Research Studio: MycoKnit Thin Shell Structures” Biohybrid Materials and Technologies for Today and Tomorrow: A Workshop, National Academies, Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, 12-13 January, 2023, Washington DC.
“SEAMS: Crafting an Architecture” American Institute of Architects Philadelphia, Forum on Architecture and Design, Keynote, Nov. 9th, 2022 4pm. Register at link above.
“Soft Systems: Crafting an Architecture” ACADIA Design Excellence Keynote Lecture, Hybrids & Haecceities Conference Oct. 27th, 2022 Philadelphia 2pm
Materiality Lecture Series, Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture with the Computational Design Series Lectures, Public Lecture. 3 October, 2022 5-7pm.
“SEAMS: Crafting and Architecture”, School of Architecture, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Sept. 12 2022 4:30pm See link for registration.
“Fabricating Networks: Transmissions and Receptions from the Hill District Pittsburgh” Hearst Public Lecture Series, Center for Expressive Technology, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 18 May 2022 8pm EST.
“FELT: Communicating Emotion Through Textile Expression” Media Arts and Technology, MAT Seminar, UC Santa Barbara, 16 May, 2022 4pm EST.
“Structure, Performance, Processing in Fungal Biofabrication” Panelist with Prof. T. Speck, J. Wee, for the Fungal Biomaterials and Biofabrication Workshop, 12 May, 2022 1pm.
“ Thinking with Materials: Call and Response”, N.Y.I.T School of Architecture, Architectural Computational Technologies remote public lecture spring 2022 series, April 18th, 2pm EST.
“Crafting an Architecture”. Department of Landscape Architecture Lecture Series 2022, Rutgers University, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, 6th April, 2022 4pm EST.
“Seams: Crafting an Architecture” Public Lecture for the Emerging Voices Awards Program, The New York Architectural League, 10 March, 2022.
University of Miami. School of Architecture, Technoglas Lecture Series, Virtual Lecture , February 23, 2022 6:30pm EST
‘Liminal’ part of the DeCategorized Panel for The Digital Now: Architecture and Intersectionality, a mulidisciplinary Mellon research program at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Jan. 20. 11-1:00pm EST. Registration link here.
Forum Lecture Series Reassemble, Charles Gordon Lecture, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carlton University, Monday, Nov. 22 6pm EST Register here.
InFocus Felecia Davis with Sean Anderson, Anna Burckhardt and Sara Bodinson at MoMA, Weds. 3 Nov. 1:30pm, Remote event is free and open to the public. Registration Link
“Seams: Crafting an Architecture”, Public Lecture, School of Architecture, University North Carolina Charlotte, Oct. 22 ,2021, 2:00pm EST. Free zoom registration.
Black Matter, Black in Design Conference, 2021, “Everyday Portals to Black Cultural Pasts” Panel Presentation and Discussion, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Oct. 9, 10am EST.
“Seams: Crafting an Architecture.” Lecture University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design, Jeffrey Fine, C'76, MArch'78 and Andrea Katz Lecture, Wednesday, 22 September, 6:30pm.
“Threads: A Conversation about Textiles in Art and Architecture”, Panelist, at Materials & Applications, Los Angeles, 21 August, 2-3:30pm EST.
Keynote Sessions Design Imperatives: The Future is Now. Panel “Designing Materials and Interactions” Panel CAADFutures 2021, 18 July 1pm EST
“Crafting and Architecture: Thinking with Material” Architectures of Weaving Symposium, part of the Matters of Activity Cluster of Excellence, hosted by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Weißensee school of art and design Berlin, 2 July, 2021.
“Crafting an Architecture: Thinking with Material” DigitalFUTURES Inclusive Futures 2021 Conference Livestream Keynote Opening Ceremony, 3rd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication, [CDRF], 26 June, 2021.
“SOFTBUILT: Crafting an Architecture”, Tetra Tech Consulting and Engineering Firm, June 18, 2021
“Seams: Race, Architecture and Design Computing”, Lecture on YouTube, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, 6 May, 2021.
Digital Futures World, “Soft Systems” for Soft Materials Panel, Sat. 17 April 10am EST/4pm CET/10pm China, Moderated by Virginia Ellyn Melnyk & Philip Beesley
“Acts of Repair”, Preston Thomas Lectures, Cornell University, School of Architecture, 16 April 5:30pm EST-7:30pm
“Black Resilience”, Georgia Institute of Technology, Roundtable, 7 April, 4:00pm EST, Register here.
“Black Reconstructions: Cities and Spatial Justice” Panel, 29 March 6:30pm-8:30pm at MoMA Register at Link.
“Black Joy”, Pennsylvania State University Dept. of Architecture Lecture, 24 March 6pm. Register at Link.
“Seams: Crafting an Architecture” for the Matter, Metabolism, Memories, Design Matters Lecture Series 17 March, 12:30-1:30pm MST, University of Calgary Alberta.
New World Structures Fiber Composite Workshop and Exhibition Downtown Calgary, University of Calgary, Alberta Canada, March 15-19, 2021.
“Softbuilt: Projects Hidden Histories”, for NOMAS Syracuse, Hidden Histories, Scales of Blackness, Panel, 22 February, 2021.
Black Reconstruction Collective, “What is the Architecture of Black Futures?” School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, Dec. 3, 2020. Black Futures Videos, “Upon [a] Time”
Black Reconstruction Collective, “What Does it mean to Imagine Black Reconstruction today?” the Carl M. Sapers Ethics in Practice Lecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Nov. 17, 2020. Imagining Reconstruction Videos “Seam”
“Softsensors & Switches” Workshop at the College of Design, North Carolina State University, Nov. 5- 17, 2020.
“Softbuilt”, Lecture, College of Design, North Carolina State University, 5 Nov. 2020
“Softbuilt”, Lecture, Empower x Design, Perkins and Will, Oct. 27th, 2020.
Black Reconstruction Collective: “What is the Architecture of Reparations?” Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Oct. 5, 2020. Reparation Videos “Dreaming of Reparations: The Hill District Pittsburgh”
“Softbuilt” Lecture, UPenn School of Design, Sept. 30, 2020.
“Softbuilt: Computational Textiles and Augmented Space.” Lecture, GSAPP, Columbia University, Sept. 13, 2018.
“SOFTLAB@PSU, Projects & Pedagogies”, Moderated by Doris Sung and Joon-Ho Choi, part of the panel “Education of a Technologist” with Ron Rael and Jenny Sabin, University of Southern California, School of Architecture, February 12, 2020.
Selected Publications and Interviews about Davis' Work by Others
Giuroiu, Anton, “Patterning with Heat and Water: Knitted Responsive Structures” in the Fabric: Elastic, Haptic, Transient, Issue 006, Architecture Lab Magazine December 2024.
Giuroiu, Anton, “Patterning with Heat and Water: Knitted Responsive Tension Structures “ Architecture Lab, 3 November 2024
Giuroiu, Anton, “MycoKnit: Exploring Mycelium-Based Composites on Knitted Textiles for Sustainable Architectural Structures”, Architecture Lab, 3 November 2024
Nirode, Vanessa, “Felecia Davis an Architect looks to Textiles for Structural Innovation.” in Threads Magazine, Spring 2024, No. 225, 77-80.
Walsh, Niall Patrick, “'AI Is Built on Datasets That Are Already Biased'; A Conversation with Felecia Davis” Archinect, 22 June, 2023
Mendoza, Christian, Interview in Futurisms, ARQUINE, Issue 104, Fall 2023.
Mendoza, Christian, “textile imagination. Conversation with Felecia Davis” ARQUINE Interview, 4 July, 2023.
Park, Han-sol, “Venice Architecture Biennale and its long-overdue celebration of Africa” The Korea Times, 22 May, 2023
Kodé, Anna, “These Mushrooms are not for Eating” The New York Times, March 24, 2023Updated March 27, 2023
Nelson, Kate, “How This Designer is Using Black Hair to Inspire the Architecture World: Felecia Davis is driving a conversation about Blackness, identity, and design through the Hair Salon project” Architectural Digest, February 2, 2023.
Nelson, Kate “How This Designer is Using Black Hair to Inspire the Architecture World: Felecia Davis is driving a conversation about Blackness, identity, and design through the Hair Salon project” National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) News, Februrary 2023,
Dickinson, Elizabeth, “Buildings Made of Wool and Fungus? Meet the Textile Expert Who is Making It Happen.” Washington Post Magazine, 15 Nov. 2022/
Timpano, Andrea, “Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Unveils 2022 National Design Award Winners”, Architecture Magazine, September 12, 2022.
Bernstein, Fred, “The Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards Honor Architects”, Architectural Record, September 8, 2022.
Hickmann, Matt, “Nader Tehrani and Rural Studio among winners of Cooper Hewitt’s 2022 National Design Awards” The Architect’s Newspaper September 7, 2022.
Smithsonian Institute, “Cooper Hewitt Announces 2022 National Design Award Winners” News Desk, Sept. 7, 2022.
Plummer, Sharbreon, Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fiber & Textiles, “Dr. Felecia Davis”, Common Threads Press, 2022, England, IBSN 978-1-399-1944-9.
Bortoli, Candela, “MycoKnit: Lightweight Biodegradable Material”, with Ali Ghazvinian, Benay Gursoy, Farzaneh Oghazian, John Peccia and Andre West. March 29, 2022.
Medina, Samuel. “Felecia Davis Studio Balances Traditional Materials with New Technologies”, The Architect’s Newspaper, 14 March.
Wessler, Sarah. “Computing without Computers: As the built Environment Becomes Ever More Digitized, Felecia Davis Believes Architects Should Adopt a More Expansive Definition of Technology.” The New York Architectural League.
Herzig, Ilana, “Interview with Designer, Engineer, and Educator Felecia Davis. Davis Works at the Intersection of Architecture, Textiles, Design and Technology.” Architectural Record Interview, 25 February, 2022.
“A Fine Eight to be In: Introducing the Architectural League’s 2022 Emerging Voices Awardees” The Editors, The Architect’s Newspaper, 9 February, 2022.
Niland, Josh, “Eight New Emerging Voices Winner Announced for 2022” for Bustler, 9 February 2022.
“The Architectural League of New York Announces Winners of the 2022 Emerging Voices Award”, ArchDaily, 10 February, 2022.
Ligler, Heather. “ Episode 001 /// Felecia Davis“ Voices in Design Computing Podcast, Season 1, 2022.
Grandiot_Sutka, Alice, “ Envisioning Equity: Reflections on Designing for Difference with the Black Reconstruction Collective”, DEEM Magazine, Issue 3, Winter 21/22.
Castronouvo, Ella, “Penn State professor collaborates on ‘Hair Salon’ project to ‘cross cultural boundaries’” Daily Collegian, 30 August, 2021.
Hernandez, Arlette, “How do we Build a Better Future?” Museum of Modern Art, 13 May, 2021.
The Museum of Modern Art, “Fabricating Networks” Reimagining Blackness and Architecture, Episode 8, 2021.
Shima Seiki USA, Inc. “Fabricating Networks by Felecia Davis @MoMA”, Features, April 16, 2021.
Ostrom, Diane, “DMTV Milkshake: Felecia Davis on Creating a Smarter, Better Future” Designmilk, 9 March 2021.
Hartt, David, “Reconstructions Portrait: Felecia Davis On Reconstructing Technology” PIN UP Magazine, Feb. 2021.
Zieba, Drew, “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, Interviews “ a PIN UP Special with Thom Browne, in PIN UP Magazine, The Revolution, Issue 30, Fall/Winter 2020/2021.
Fox, Tal. “Smart Textiles Respond to Human Emotions.” MRS Bulletin 45, no. 9 (2020): 694–96. doi:10.1557/mrs.2020.236.
Garcia, Andrea, “What does it mean to be a Woman in Research? Penn State Professors Share their Experiences” in Daily Collegian, 22 May, 2020.
Ramos, Gabriel and Barber, Mariah “Creating a More Equitable Future” African American Design Nexus, Black in Design Conference, Black Futurism, Harvard University, October 5, 2019
African American Design Nexus at the Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University, Profile, May 2019.
Odom, Alexander, GSAPP Conversations #52, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Interview, September 13th, 2018.
“Lighting the Way” Video for Penn State University, Impact Campaign 2018, DeCoded Design
Tolley, John, "At this Penn State Studio Researchers are Literally Weaving Together Science and Art." January 2018.
Stanford, Cheraine, Producer, WPSU TV/PBS/NPR, SciTech Now, Women in Science Profiles, Episode 318, Broadcast 20 March,2017. http://wpsu.psu.edu/tv/programs/scitechnow/episode-318/
Stanford, Cheraine, Producer, WPSU Women in Science Profiles, Video Profile. SOFTLAB@PSU Jan. 2017. http://wpsu.psu.edu/digital/women-in-science-profiles/felecia-davis/
Stanford, Cheraine, Producer, WPSU Live Chats for Women in Science Profiles. 1 March 2017. https://wpsu.psu.edu/digital/women-in-science-profiles/felecia-davis/chat-with-felecia-davis/
Goddard, Cody and Cynthia White, Arts Research Revealed: Computational Textiles Felecia Davis for The Borland Project Space, College of Arts and Architecture, 2017.https://youtu.be/F7wSbWwVvVY
Ready, Frank. "At the Intersection of science and creativity with Felecia Davis" Centre Daily Times, 11 March 2016. http://www.centredaily.com/living/article138013813.html
Kettley, Sarah. “(xviii) Felecia Davis and Microsoft - Textile Mirror and the tangible visualization of big data” In Designing with Smart Textiles, edited by Sarah Kettley, London: Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
Wright, Bruce. “Heat Responsive Tension Structures.” In Fabric Architecture Magazine, Industrial Fabrics Association International [IFAI], 1 January 2013. http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/2013/01/01/heat-responsive-tension-structures/
Nordstrom, Galynn. “From Body to Building: Current Research Into Interactive and Technical Textiles.” In Specialty Fabrics Reveiw, Industrial Fabrics Association International [IFAI] 7 December, 2012.
Daniels, Judith, "M.I.T. School of Architecture and Planning Student Profile: Felecia Davis", 2010.
Selected Publications about Architecture, Race, Space and the City
Davis, Felecia, “Fabricating Networks: Transmissions and Receptions from the Hill District Pittsburgh” in Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, Eds. Sean Anderson and Mabel O. Wilson, pg. 54-59. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2021.
Black Reconstruction Collective, “Black Reconstruction Collective: A Manifesting Statement” in PIN UP Magazine, Issue 30 Fall/Winter 2020/2021.
Davis, Felecia "What if Spaces: practices for diversity, equity, place, identity and change" in Convergent Voices, PLATFORM, Eds. Nichole Wiedemann and Charlton N. Lewis, University of Texas Austin School of Architecture, 2017.
Davis, Felecia, Daniels, Yolande, and Wilson, Mabel. “Inside and Out: Three Black Women's Perspectives on Architectural Education in the Ivory Tower,” In Space Unveiled: Invisible Cultures in the Design Studio, edited by Carla Bell, 227- 230. New York: Routledge Press, 2015.
Davis, Felecia. “One Week, Eight Hours,” In The Green Braid: Ecology, Economy and Social Equity in Service of Sustainable Design, edited by Kim Tanzer and Rafael Longoria, 127-133. New York: Routledge Press, 2007.
Davis, Felecia. “One Week, Eight Hours,” In Row: Trajectories Through The Shotgun Rowhouse, edited by David P. Brown and William D. Williams, 90-102. Houston: Rice University School of Architecture Press, 2004.
Davis, Felecia. “Walking Tours: Urban Riff,” in harlemworld: Metropolis as Metaphor edited by Thelma Golden, 83-88. New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2004.
Davis, Felecia. “Places of Memory: Walking Tours of Manhattan,” In Sites of Memory: Perspectives on Architecture and Race, edited by Craig E. Barton, 27-36. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.
Davis, Felecia. “(Un) Covering/ (re)Covering,” In White Papers, Black Marks, edited by Lesley Naa Norel Lokko, 348-355. London: Athlone Press, 2000.
Davis, Felecia. “One Week, Eight Hours.” ACSA Proceedings Architecture and Communication: Challenge & Opportunity in Building the Information, ACSA New Orleans Conference, Spring 2002.
Davis, Felecia. “Places of Memory: Walking Tours of Manhattan.” ACSA Proceedings La Citta Nuova Rome, Summer 1999. Webpage and paper presented.
Davis, Felecia. “Places of Memory: Walking Tours of Manhattan.” ACSA Proceedings Memory and Architecture, Washington University, St. Louis, Fall 1998. Paper presented.
Davis, Felecia. “Goree Island Competition: Monument to Slavery and Ship Navigation.” ACSA Proceedings Memory and Architecture, Washington University, St. Louis, Fall 1998. Project presented.
Davis, Felecia. “Memorial and Museum for the African Burial Ground: Uncovering and Recovering.” ACSA Proceedings. Conference Title: Defining the Urban Condition: Accelerating the Change in the Geography of Power. Summer 1995.
Patents
Mood Actuated Device # 9046884, June 2015
Mood Actuated Device # 9104231, August 2015
With Microsoft Research, Redmond WA