Felecia Davis’ work in computational textiles questions how we live as she re-imagines how we might use textiles in our daily lives and in architecture. Her work in architecture connects art, science, engineering and design and was featured by PBS in the "Women in Science Profiles" series, and her designs were part of the 18th Venice Biennale 'The Laboratory of the Future' and MoMA’s exhibition "Reconstruction: Blackness and Architecture in America."
She is a founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective a not-for-profit group of Black architects, scholars, and artists supporting design work about the Black diaspora. Davis’ work has been recognized by the DigitalFUTURES Group in 2021, the New York Architectural Leagues’ 2022 Emerging Voices in Architecture program, ACADIA’s 2022 Innovative Research Award of Excellence and the 2022 National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum for Digital Design.
While at MacDowell, Davis worked on fabricating a full-scale architectural structure of dreadlocked hair for her "Dreadlock" series. Prior small, architectural imaginary models were included in a 2025 show, "Material Acts: Experiments in Architecture and Design", at the Contemporary Craft Museum in Los Angeles. She also worked on etchings and lino prints to be shown in accompaniment to the dreadlocked structure.
