Sonia Sobrino Ralston

Sonia Sobrino Ralston (she/her) is a designer, researcher, and educator, and currently is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Landscape Architecture and Art + Design at Northeastern University. Her current projects focus on the ways that plants and information systems collide, and the broader ramifications this has on social, political, and labor structures. Sonia has taught multidisciplinary studios and seminars on environmental themes at the graduate and undergraduate level at Northeastern University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Sonia graduated with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a Master of Landscape Architecture, and holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University where she received a certificate in Media + Modernity. Sonia was the assistant curator for the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale on the theme “Edible: Or, the Architecture of Metabolism,” and acted as a research associate for the “Setting the Course” symposium on landscape pedagogy at Harvard in 2023. Additionally, she won the Architectural League Prize in 2024 as part of the design collective Office Party, whose work spanning editorial projects to installation center on the social, environmental and material lives of collective gathering. Sonia’s writing has been published in the Avery Review and Cartha Magazine, Urban Transformations (co-authored). Her design and research work—which currently takes the form of digital media and installation—has been exhibited in Timisoara, Boston, Tallinn, Cambridge, New York, and São Paulo.