Sonia Sobrino Ralston

Sonia Sobrino Ralston is a designer and researcher, and is a lecturer at the Weitzman School of Design in Landscape Architecture. She is also the current Research and Teaching Fellow in Art + Design at the Northeastern College of Media, Art, and Design. She is interested in the intersections between landscape, architecture, and the history of technology: her current projects explore how plants and information systems collide, and its resultant spatial and social ramifications. She currently teaches multidisciplinary studios and seminars centering on environmental learning and design at Northeastern at the graduate and undergraduate level.

Sonia recently graduated with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a Master of Landscape Architecture where she was awarded the Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize and the Digital Design Prize for her thesis, “Uncommon Knowledge.” She also holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University where she received a certificate in Media + Modernity. She was the assistant curator for the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale on the theme “Edible: Or, the Architecture of Metabolism,” and assisted with the design and organization of a symposium on landscape pedagogy at the Harvard GSD in fall 2023. Additionally, she recently supported a science communication project at the metaLAB at Harvard, and currently collaborates with the design collective Office Party. Her writing has been published in the Avery Review and Cartha Magazine, as well as a co-authored chapter in Urban Transformations, and her collaborative work has been exhibited in Tallinn, Cambridge, New York, and São Paulo.