Presenter

Vernelle A. A. Noel, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Computational Design at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Director of the Situated Computation + Design Lab. Her research is at the intersection of embodied traditions, technological practices, and society. Using interdisciplinary approaches, she builds new frameworks, methodologies, and expressions to explore social, cultural, and political aspects of computation to create new reconfigurations of practice, pedagogy, and publics. Dr. Noel’s work has been supported by the Graham Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, and ideas2innovation (i2i), among others. She is a recipient of the DigitalFUTURES Young Award for exceptional research and scholarship in the field of critical computational design, and has a TEDx Talk titled, “The Power of Making: Craft, Computation, and Carnival.” Dr. Noel is also co-editor of the book, “Critical Computational Relations in Design, Architecture and the Built Environment," with Dr. Yana Boeva. The book explores computational practices, tools, and methods and how they mask social, political, and environmental entanglements.