ROSY HEAD

BIOGRAPHY

Rosy Head is a London-based theorist and creative thought partner, and is currently Chair of History & Theory at the Architectural Association (AA). Her research and work focus on the philosophical, political and practical dimensions of the planetary. With extensive experience as a thought partner to cultural, educational, policy, and charitable organisations, she bridges scholarship and practice.

Her collaborative entity, AUZINC, reimagines knowledge frameworks and creates cultural artefacts that foreground the imaginative and strategic role of the arts in translating research into action. 


Suppressed Tendencies, forthcoming

Between Here and the Surface of the Moon, 2024

Conceptualising the Planetary, 2024/25

Everything Is Leaf, 2024

Planetary Compositions, 2024

The World Recomposed, 2023/24

Soft Emitters, 2021 / 2024

Conversations at Boundaries in Flux I & II, 2021/2024

Bar Conceptuel, 2021

Natural Assemblies, 2020

The Undone World, 2020

Salle des Mariages, 2019

Les Distances de Separation II – I Thought You’d Be There When I Got There, 2018

Les Distances de Separation I – I’m Here, Live, 2018

Folds, 2017

Total Interlock, 2017

A Less Than perfect Ratio, 2016

Wild Regions, 2015

Bad Infinity, 2014

The Spatial Field III: Failure, 2013

The Spatial Field II: The Epic & Banal of It All, 2013

The Spatial Field I: Active Matter, 2012

Beauty and The Beast, 2012

Hot Land Proxy, 2012

Hardware Softset, 2012

WORK

PWG, forthcoming

MARIYA X TBA, forthcoming

PROSECUTION X TBA, forthcoming

PLANETARY I X THE PLANT MAGAZINE, 2024 - ongoing

CLIMATE X CCAG, 2023

CULTURAL ACCELERATION X THE FACE MAGAZINE, 2022

AFFECTING THE HEAT OF THE SUN’S RAYS X PICPUS PRESS, 2022

GERRARD O’CARROLL LECTURE X WHITECHAPEL GALLERY, 2013-2021

NO ONE WAY X LCFC, 2020

CURRICULUM X LONDON INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOOL, 2019

BEAM X BRIDGET SMITH / OXFORD UNIVERSITY EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS, 2017

SPECULATIVE FUTURES X RCA, 2009-2017

TOURING X BEN KELLY / VIRGIL ABLOH, 2016

AUZINC

SELECTED CLIENTS & COLLABORATORS

CCAG (Climate Crisis Advisory Group), Leicester City Football Club, The Face Magazine & Wasted Talent Studios, British Council, Helsingborg Municipality Sweden, V&A Museum / V&A East, Financial Times, Nike, Samsung, MSI Reproductive Choices, Royal College of Art, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), French Ministry of Culture, Palais de Tokyo Paris, London Interdisciplinary School, The House of St Barnabas, Ben Kelly Design, Virgil Abloh, Grosvenor Estates, Space Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, SPEAP Science Po Paris, Bridget Smith, Oxford University Physics Department, PICPUS Press, Danish Embassy Paris, Antelope Films, Hong Kong University, The Plant Magazine, Marcus Coates, Kate MacGarry, Cambridge University.