Rosa Whiteley

Rosa Whiteley is a designer, writer, and researcher based in London. With a background in architecture and spatial design, her practice explores the intersection between architecture, food systems, ecology, pollution studies, and atmospheric politics. She is primarily interested in the many ways toxic-chemical flows rearrange the worlds that we live within, and how weird ecologies interact with and through human-made atmospheres. 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 currently an Associate Lecturer in Media Studies at the Royal College of Art School of Architecture. 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. Rosa is also the Director of Material Research at CLIMAVORE Community Interest Company, a research platform and agency that questions how to eat as humans change climates.

Rosa Whiteley is a participant of the Onassis AiR Extended Research Residencies program for 2024/25.