Sheryl Boyle is Associate Professor at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University in Ottawa and is Director of the Carleton Sensory Architecture and Liminal Technologies lab which explores materiality through hands-on research and projects that work with historical artifacts and industry partners. Sheryl and her lab collaborators work with a variety of craftspeople including cooks, masons, carpenters and 3D printing experts, embracing the knowledge of craft in works that aims to expand to sensory dimensions of construction and architecture.  Her artistic work uses discarded and collected materials from her surroundings to reformulate sensory narratives which participate in daily life. Sheryl completed her professional architecture degree at Carleton University, her post-professional Master of Architecture at McGill University in the History and Theory program studying under Alberto Perez-Gomez, and her PhD at Concordia University in the Humanities under supervisor David Howes, and minor supervisors Rod Phillips and Cynthia Imogen-Hammond.

Sheryl defended her thesis, entitled “Fragrant Walls and the Table of Delight: Sensory (re)construction as a way of knowing, the case of Thornbury Castle 1508-21” in November 2020.