Publications

Yana Boeva and Vernelle A. A. Noel, eds. 2024. Critical Computational Relations in Design, Architecture and the Built Environment. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

(2024) Noel, Vernelle A. A. 2024. “Repairing Code, Craft, and Computation.” Technology|Architecture + Design 8 (2): 187–92. 

Issue 8:2 Coding

(2024) Noel, Vernelle A. A. 2024. “Embodied CODEnition.” In Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, edited by Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus, 121–22. Applied Research & Design.

(2024) Noel Vernelle A. A., Parikh Shantanu, Wilson John and Grunert Sarah. 2024. “A Mindful Body Approach to Creating Architecture: Movement, Models and Spatial Experiences.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 379 (1911): 20230153. 

keywords: mindful body, architecture, movement, memory, design, behavior, cognition

Canizares, Galo, and Zach Cohen. 2024. “Situated Computations: An Interview with Vernelle A. A. Noel.” In Homing the Machine in Architecture. London: Routledge.

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(2023) Noel, Vernelle A A. “Carnival + AI: Heritage, Virtual Spaces and ML.” In Habits of the Anthropocene: Scarcity and Abundance in a Post-Material Economy, 1:242–45. ACADIA 2023. Denver, Colorado, USA.

(2023) Noel, Vernelle A. A., and Hayri Dortdivanlioglu. “Text-to-Image Generators: Semiotics, Semantics, and Society.” In Habits of the Anthropocene: Scarcity and Abundance in a Post-Material Economy, 3:49–54. ACADIA 2023. Denver, Colorado, USA.

(2023) Yana Boeva & Vernelle A. A. Noel. “Critical computational relations in design, architecture and the built environment: Editorial,” Digital Creativity, 34:2, 79-87.

(2022) Noel, Vernelle A A. “Computational Regionalism: De-Familiarization of Tectonics in the Wire-Bending Craft.” International Journal of Architectural Computing 20, no. 2 (June 2022): 277–96.

keywords: Computational regionalism, craft, wire-bending, Bailey-Derek grammar, de-familiarization, Trinidad Carnival, tectonics

 

(2021) Noel, Vernelle A A, Yana Boeva, and Hayri Dortdivanlioglu. “The Question of Access: Toward an Equitable Future of Computational Design.” International Journal of Architectural Computing, (November 2021). 
 
keywords: Access, knowledges, craft, digital fabrication, computation, equity, pedagogy.
 
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(2021) Noel, Vernelle A. A, Niloofar Nikookar, Jamieson Pye, ‘Karen’ Tran, and Sara Laudeman. 2021. “The Infinite Line Active Bending Pavilion: Culture, Craft and Computation.” In PROJECTIONS, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2021, 1:351–60. Hong Kong. Link to presentation >>>
 
keywords: Situated Computations; craft; wire-bending; active bending structures; Trinidad Carnival; dancing sculptures.
 
(2021) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “Thinking-with and Making-with [Others] for Breakthroughs in Design.” In Dialogues in Design Thinking: Reconsidering the Interdisciplinary Design Studio Experiment in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech., edited by Julie Kim, 44–45. School of Architecture, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. 
 

keywords: interdisciplinary design, pedagogy

(2020) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “Situated Computations: Bridging Craft and Computation in the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival“. Dearq, no. 27 (2020): 62-75. https://doi.org/10.18389/dearq27.2020.05

keywords: situated computation, craft, software, interrogative technology design, wire-bending, carnival, tool-making, culture

(2019) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “Reviving a Craft through Architecture: Computational Making of a lightweight pavilion based on wire-bending techniques,” in Form and Force, Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Annual Symposium 2019 – Structural Membranes 2019 – IASS, Barcelona, Spain. (October 2019).

keywords: wire-bending, Bailey-Derek Grammar, craft, shape grammars, digital fabrication

(2019) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “Design Computation and Restoring Craftsmanship: The Bailey-Derek Grammar in Wire-Bending,” in Hello Culture! Proceedings of Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures Conference – CAAD Futures, (Daejeon, Korea. (June 2019): 950-969.

keywords: wire-bending, Bailey-Derek Grammar, craftsmanship, pedagogy, design education, cultural heritage, repair, restoration, remediation

(2017) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “From Costuming and Dancing Sculptures to Architecture: The Corporeal and Computational in Design and Fabrication of Lightweight Mobile Structures,” in Future Trajectories of Computation in Design. Proceedings of Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures Conference – CAAD Futures, Istanbul, Turkey. (June 2017): 22-41.

keywords: lightweight structures, costuming, Trinidad Carnival, dancing sculptures, digital crafting, crafting fabrication

(2017) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “Digitally Displaying and Interacting with Historic Artifacts of Spatial, Temporal, Corporeal, and Kinetic dimensions,” Studies in Digital Heritage (December 2017): 251 268.  https://doi.org/10.14434/sdh.v1i2.23277

keywords: augmented reality, embodied interaction, temporal, corporeal, kinetic sculptures, culture, heritage, STiCK

(2016) Vernelle A. A. Noel. “Crafting as Inquiry into Computation: Exploring wire-bending in traditional practice and design education,” in Complexity & Simplicity. Proceedings of the 34th Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe Conference (eCAADe), University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, (August 2016): 311-320.

keywords: wire-bending, Bailey-Derek Grammar, craft, computational design, design education

(2015) Noel, Vernelle A.A. 2015. “The Bailey-Derek Grammar: Recording the Craft of Wire-Bending in the Trinidad Carnival.” Leonardo 48 (4): 357–65. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01089. For a copy of the article, click here.