Publications
JOURNAL PAPERS
Kropp, C., Boeva, Y., & K. Braun (2026). Socio-digital Co-design Practices: A Case Study on Human-Computer Entanglements in Architecture. Science & Technology Studies, 39(1), 21–40. [Open Access]
Svatoš-Ražnjević*, H., Boeva*, Y., Kropp, C., & Menges, A. (2025). Trajectories from standard to incremental and pioneering innovation in timber construction: Multi-story timber buildings in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Building Research & Information, 53(6), 734–758. [Open Access; *equal first authorship]
Boeva, Y., Braun, K. & Kropp, C. (2024). Platformization in the Built Environment: The Political Techno-Economy of Building Information Modeling. Science as Culture, 33(2), 146–173. [Open Access; IntCDC Best Publication Award 2024]
Boeva, Y., & Noel, V. A. A. (2023). Critical Computational Relations in Design, Architecture and the Built Environment: Editorial. Digital Creativity, 34(2), 79–87. [Open Access]
Kropp, C., Boeva, Y., & Braun, K. (2023). Architektonische Praxis im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung. Soziale Probleme – Zeitschrift für soziale Probleme und soziale Kontrolle, 34(2), 238–255. [Link]
Braun, K., Kropp, C., & Boeva, Y. (2022). Turning Digital Design into Digital Assets: Competing Visions, Policy Projects and Emerging Apparatuses of Value Creation in the Digital Transformation of Construction. Historical Social Research, 47(3), 81–110. [Open Access]
Braun, K., Kropp, C., & Boeva, Y. (2022). Constructing platform capitalism: Inspecting the political techno-economy of building information modelling. arq – Architectural Research Quarterly, 26(3), 267–278. [Link]
Noel, V. A. A., Boeva, Y., & Dortdivanlioglu, H. (2021). The question of access: Toward an equitable future of computational design. International Journal of Architectural Computing, 19(4), 496–511. [Link]
Kohtala, C., Boeva, Y., & Troxler, P. (2020). Introduction: Alternative Histories in DIY Cultures and Maker Utopias. Digital Culture & Society, 6(1), 5–34. [Link]
Boeva, Y., & Foster, E. K. (2016). Making: On Being and Becoming Expert. Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal – IxD&A, 30, 65–74. [Open Access]
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Boeva, Y., Berger, A., Bischof, A., Doggett, O., Heuer, H., Jarke, J., Treusch, P., Søraa, R. A., Tacheva, Z., & Voigt, M.-L. (2023). Behind the Scenes of Automation: Ghostly Care-Work, Maintenance, and Interferences: Exploring participatory practices and methods to uncover the ghostly presence of humans and human labor in automation. Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 332, 1–5. [Open Access]
Yoo, M., Berger, A., Lindley, J., Green, D. P., Boeva, Y., Nicenboim, I., & Odom, W. (2023). Beyond Academic Publication: Alternative Outcomes of HCI Research. Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 114–116. [Link]
Kropp, C., & Boeva, Y. (2021). Die Übersetzung des Bauwissens und seine Konflikte. In B. Blättel-Mink (Ed.), Gesellschaft unter Spannung. Verhandlungen des 40. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2020. [Open Access]
Foster, E. K., & Boeva, Y. (2019). Making Sense of Place: Research Reflections from Two Multi-sited Ethnographies. In M. Ferris (Ed.), Making Futures, Vol. 5. Plymouth College of Art.
EDITED VOLUMES, SPECIAL ISSUES & MONOGRAPHS
Boeva, Y., & Noel, V. A. A. (2024). Critical Computational Relations in Design, Architecture and the Built Environment. Routledge. [Link]
Jarke, J., Prietl, B., Egbert, S., Boeva, Y., Heuer, H., & Arnold, A. (2024). Algorithmic Regimes: Methods, Interactions and Politics. Amsterdam University Press. [Open Access]
Boeva, Y., & Noel, V. A. A. (2023). Special Issue: Critical Computational Relations in Design, Architecture and the Built Environment. Digital Creativity, 34(2). [Link]
Kohtala, C., Boeva, Y. & Troxler, P. (2020). Special issue: Alternative Histories in DIY Cultures and Maker Utopias. Digital Culture & Society, 6(1). [Link]
Ratto, M., Rosner, D., Boeva, Y., & Taylor, A. (2019). Special issue on hybrid pedagogies editorial. Digital Creativity, 30(4). [Link]
Boeva, Y. (2019). Break, Make, Retake: Interrogating the Social and Historical Dimensions of Making as a Design Practice. PhD Dissertation. Science & Technology Studies, Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University, Toronto, ON. York Space Institutional Repository. [Link]
BOOK CHAPTERS
Boeva, Y. (forthcoming, 2026). Software als soziotechnische Assemblage. In A. Krüger, C. Schubert, J. Schubert, & J.-F. Schrape (Eds.), Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung (pp. 351–366). DeGruyter.
Boeva, Y., & Kropp, C. (2024). Buildings in the Algorithmic Regime: Infrastructuring Processes in Computational Design. In J. Jarke, B. Prietl, S. Egbert, Y. Boeva, H. Heuer, & M. Arnold (Eds.), Algorithmic Regimes: Methods, Interactions and Politics (pp. 141–162). Amsterdam University Press. [Open Access]
Boeva, Y., & Noel, V. A. A. (2024). Introduction: Critical computational relations in design, architecture and the built environment. In Y. Boeva, & V. A. A. Noel. (Eds.), Critical Computational Relations in Design, Architecture and the Built Environment (pp. 1–8). Routledge.
Jarke, J., Prietl, B., Egbert, S., Boeva, Y., & Heuer, H. (2024). Knowing in Algorithmic Regimes: An Introduction. In J. Jarke, B. Prietl, S. Egbert, Y. Boeva, H. Heuer, & M. Arnold (Eds.), Algorithmic Regimes: Methods, Interactions and Politics (pp. 7–33). Amsterdam University Press. [Open Access]
Boeva, Y. (2024). The Model Multiple: On Approximation Work in Digital Models and Twins. In A.-M. Meister, L. Beißwanger, C. Dähne, T. Fankhänel, C. Fülscher, & A. L. Schubert (Eds.), Are You a Model? On a Medium of Spatial Exploration (pp. 148–151). JOVIS Verlag.
Boeva, Y., Wortmann, T., Kropp, C., & Menges, A. (2022). Architectural Computing and Design Optimization for Healthful Ecotopian Built Environments? In M. Kanaani (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Ecological Design Thinking (pp. 367–379). Routledge. [Link]
Kropp, C., Braun, K., & Boeva, Y. (2022). Echo chambers of urban design: platformization in architecture and planning. In A. Strüver & S. Bauriedl (Eds.), Platformization of Urban Life: Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities (pp. 237–255). transcript. [Open Access]
Boeva, Y., & Troxler, P. (2020). Makers. In M. O’Neil, C. Pentzold, & S. Toupin (Eds.), The Handbook of Peer Production (pp. 225–237). Wiley. [Link]
Boeva, Y., Elliott, D., Jones-Imhotep, E., Muhammedi, S., & Turkel, W. J. (2018). Doing History by Reverse Engineering Electronic Devices. In J. Sayers (Ed.), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities (pp. 163–176). University of Minnesota Press. [Open Access]
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