Rosa Whiteley
is an artist, writer, and researcher from Wiltshire, with a background in architecture and spatial design.
Working on the intersection of architecture, food systems, critical ecology and atmospheric studies
Utilising installation, animation, writing, film, material design, podcasts, and community driven coproduction, her practice engages with the overlapping boundaries of art, architecture, ecology, and geopolitics. She is primarily interested in socially engaged projects that focus on ecological futurity.   

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, questioning how care for ecologies through food production may be informed by caring for clouds, and visa-versa.

Her work has been presented in Timișoara, Rotterdam, Beijing, Essen, Brussels, Manchester, Edinburgh and London. She holds an MA in Architecture from the Royal College of Art, London, and a BA in Architecture from the University of Manchester. Developing research through writing, she has contributed to publications, books and magazines, including Offsetted, Cooking Sections, Hatje Cantz (2022), Becoming Geological, V2 (2021) and Ecoes 1, Sonic Acts (2020). In 2021, Operaciones Editorial published Rosa's first book, Horizontes Rosados, in San Jose, Costa Rica.  
Practice grounded in collaboration with artists, scientists, activists and makers
Working within Cooking Sections as a project manager and lead researcher since 2019. Cooking Sections are a turner-prize nominated studio that use  food as a lens to observe landscapes in transformation. She has worked with them on many projects, notably: When [Salmon [Salmon Salmon]] Trilogy (Tate Britain, Bonniers Konsthall, Castello de Rivoli, BARD, 2020-2022); In The Eddy Of The Stream (Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, 2022); Wallowland / Çamuralem (Istanbul Bienalle, 2022); Mussel Beach (Current LA Food, 2019)

Since 2021, she has acted as Director of Material Research for CLIMAVORE CIC in the Islands of Skye and Raasay, developing building materials from waste seashells. CLIMAVORE’s vision is to empower coastal communities in Skye and Raasay, who are custodians of their land, culture and futures, to review local food systems through CLIMAVORE and drive a just transition in the wake of the climate and biodiversity crises.

In 2025, she co-founded TUFF, a project exploring the post-industrial hydrosphere, with Eliza Collin and Freya Spencer Wood.      
Teaching at the RCA School of Architecture
where she co-leads ADS3: Dry Spells, with Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernandez Pascual.   
Currently a 24/25 Fellow at Onassis AiR
Developing her project, Cultivated Atmospheres
Selected Projects
Climavore Builds  
Fast Crystals
Marshbodies
Seeing Toxic Airs
Pollution Allures
Horizantas Rosados
Oil Critters
In The Pink
  
More
        @rosawhiteley
        rosawhiteley95@gmail.com