Sophie Weston Chien is a designer-organizer.

Her expanded practice involves organizing in the design fields, participatory textile research and fabrication, theorizing on contemporary design practice, and teaching. She often does this work in collaboration through projects and leadership with just practice, Seeding Pedagogies Collaborative, Design As Protest Collective, Dark Matter U, and DESIGNxRI. Her work builds spatial and social relationships to ensure people can shape their own spaces.

Sophie has lectured at cultural institutions (Boston Public Library), academic institutions (University of Waterloo, University of Mississippi), and mainstream platforms (Clever) and been a resident at Art Omi: Architecture, I-Park, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. She has exhibited at Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Data through Design (NYC), District Architecture Center (DC), and more. Her work is in the permanent collection of the MIT Museum and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Sophie holds a Master's in Landscape Architecture and Master's in Urban Planning from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is currently a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Environmental Design Department.

❣️ reach me at sophiewchien@gmail.com

❣️ view my cv here

Sophie’s work will be on display at upcoming shows in the Boulder Public Library (fall 2025), Northeastern University (fall 2025), District Architecture Center (winter 2026), and Mills College (spring 2026)