This week?s DMTV Milkshake guest is Felecia Davis, designer at Felecia Davis Studio, associate professor at the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Pennsylvania State University, as well as the director of SOFTLAB@PSU.
In this episode, Davis shares her genre-defying work, research, and design advocacy ? some of which is now on view at the Museum of Modern Arts? show Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America through May 31.

MoMA visitors will have the chance to explore Davis?s dense, layered work with textiles in person, interacting directly with two pieces within a larger project: Fabricating Networks: Transmissions and Receptions from Pittsburgh?s Hill District, 2021. The first, a ?transmission quilt,? shares stories from the residents of Pittsburgh?s Hill District when viewers touch the quilt itself. Another piece, the Flower Antenna, has pink copper fabric engineered to pick up electromagnetic waves ? from bypassers? iPhones, for example ? and transforms them into a high-pitched sound. View Under the Flower Antenna, by Felecia Davis. Photo by Germane Barnes, © 2021, Museum of Modern Art, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America. This is from the project Fabricating Networks: Transmissions and Receptions from Pittsburgh?s Hill District, 2021.
This project uses textiles to explore the invisible electromagnetic waves that shape people?s lives. There are two parts.
The first is a trans...