Sophia Goehner

Background

Education & Practice: Sophia Goehner is a multidisciplinary creative working across architecture, web and graphic design, art, music, and photography. A Cornell University graduate with a five-year professional degree in Architecture, she combines her architectural training with independent study in fine arts, media, and music, exploring the intersections of spatial design and cultural expression.

Entrepreneurship: Sophia is the founder of CreateAid.com, CreativeMediaEnterprises.com, and VirtualDesignSpaces.com. CreateAid is a research- and socially-driven platform exploring how design and storytelling can support global initiatives. Creative Media Enterprises is a client-focused venture delivering solutions in branding, digital media, and architectural visualization. Virtual Design Spaces is a web-based forum rooted in architectural design that serves as an investigatory laboratory bridging virtual reality and architecture, enabling discussion and exploration of spatiality, human perception, VR theory, and architectural space-making. Together, these ventures balance social innovation, immersive experimentation, and market-driven practice.

Global Perspective: Born into a bi-cultural circumstance and a citizen of Germany and the U.S., Sophia developed a global outlook through extensive travel across Europe, North America, North Africa, and Mexico. These experiences inform her sensitivity to place and her commitment to globally engaged, socially conscious design.

Objectives

Creative Integration: Sophia integrates design, music, and photography into projects that cross disciplinary boundaries. Using digital platforms and social media, she extends the reach of her work, applying creativity to fields ranging from sustainable urbanism to branding and identity.

Research Motivation: She believes cities must reconcile technological progress with ecological balance. Her work focuses on regenerative urbanism, green infrastructure, and the integration of ecological systems into the built environment. She is also interested in parametric modeling and immersive visualization—defined as the use of advanced digital environments, such as virtual and augmented reality and spatial simulations, to enable multi-sensory engagement with complex design scenarios. Immersive visualization allows for testing urban interventions, analyzing spatial cognition, and modeling socio-ecological resilience within simulated yet experientially rich environments.

Her approach builds on theoretical frameworks she explores on ResearchGate, including topics in urban ecology, digital representation, and socio-technical systems, and is further articulated in her LinkedIn article, “From Mimesis to Virtualization” (link), which examines the translation of architectural and ecological concepts into immersive digital experiences for research and practice.

© Sophia Goehner / August 2025