Carrie McKnelly
Building W41 (MET Warehouse), Room 1216, 3 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Free
Carrie McKnelly Part of the MIT Fall 2026 Architecture Lecture Series. Presented with the Design and Computation Group Carrie McKnelly is a design leader whose work sits at the intersection of computational design and material craft. She leads the design team within Nike Innovation's Advanced Digital Creation Studio, spanning footwear, apparel, and accessories, directing digital workflows that embed performance, behavior, and data into how product is imagined, designed, and made. Carrie holds a Master of Science in Architectural Studies from MIT, studied through the Computation and Design Group, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute. She has taught studio and elective courses at MIT and Pratt, and served as the Howard E. LeFevre Emerging Practitioner Fellow at Ohio State's Knowlton School of Architecture (2015–2016). Carrie began her career at SOFTlab in New York, designing large-scale installations that revealed the creative potential of pairing computational logic with physical material. At MIT, she explored knit textiles as a material system for complex form and worked alongside the Self-Assembly Lab. She then joined Nike, leading computational design across…