On June 23, 2020 spoke with Vernelle A. A. Noel, a scholar, architect, TED Speaker, and artist who is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she teaches courses in architecture and design computation.

Her research interrogates socio-cultural and socio-technical issues in crafts, computation and technologies in design and making practices. Her recent scholarship investigates the dying craft practice of wire-bending in Carnival in Trinidad & Tobago where she documents this craft knowledge and uses computational and technological strategies to revive the craft practice.

Vernelle holds a Ph.D. in Architecture with a focus in Design Computing from the Pennsylvania State University, a Masters of Science in Architecture with a focus in Design Computation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Bachelor of Architecture from Howard University. She has practiced as an architect in the USA, India, and her native Trinidad.