Rosa Whiteley
Rosa Whiteley is an architectural researcher and designer who explores the intersection between architecture, ecology, and atmospheric politics. She is primarily interested in how toxic-chemical flows rearrange the worlds we live within and how weird ecologies interact with and through human-made atmospheres. Her current work researches cases of alternative food practices to rethink how we live within and remake our atmospheres: cultivating not just the soil, but cultivating the clouds—ultimately questioning how care for ecologies through food production may be informed by caring for clouds, and visa-versa.
Her work has been presented in Timisoara, Rotterdam, Beijing, Essen, Brussels and London. In 2021, Operaciones Editorial published Rosa’s first book, Horizontas Rosados. Rosa is an Associate Lecturer in Media Studies at the Royal College of Art School of Architecture. She holds an MA in Architecture from the Royal College of Art, London and a BA in Architecture from the University of Manchester.
Since 2019, Rosa has worked as a researcher and designer as part of Cooking Sections, who use food as a lens and tool to observe landscapes in transformation. She is also the Director of Material Research for CLIMAVORE CIC in the Islands of Skye and Raasay. Rosa is currently a 2024/2025 Fellow at Onassis AiR, Athens.
Projects
Her work has been presented in Timisoara, Rotterdam, Beijing, Essen, Brussels and London. In 2021, Operaciones Editorial published Rosa’s first book, Horizontas Rosados. Rosa is an Associate Lecturer in Media Studies at the Royal College of Art School of Architecture. She holds an MA in Architecture from the Royal College of Art, London and a BA in Architecture from the University of Manchester.
Since 2019, Rosa has worked as a researcher and designer as part of Cooking Sections, who use food as a lens and tool to observe landscapes in transformation. She is also the Director of Material Research for CLIMAVORE CIC in the Islands of Skye and Raasay. Rosa is currently a 2024/2025 Fellow at Onassis AiR, Athens.
Projects
- The Cloud Is A Stomach
- Shellfish Materials
- Pollution Allures
- Marshbodies
- Seeing Toxic Airs
- Sunburn
- Pink Death Cloud
- Oil Critters