After graduating as an architect from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City in 2012, Rosa acquired experience in the fields of architecture design, product design, exhibit design, and curatorship through the projects she developed within Torres+Hanhausen, a studio she co-founded in 2015.

During this time she worked as Assistant Curator on the “100 Years of Swiss Design” exhibition, an adaptation the show developed by the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich in 2017. In 2018 she curated and developed “Design for the City”, an exhibition commissioned by the Embassy of Switzerland in Mexico titled, which was displayed during the International Fair of Friendly Cultures (FICA); while simultaneously contributing to Swiss Design Labs (EPFL ÉCAL Lab + ETHZ ZHdK Lab) and ¡De Vacaciones!, two exhibitions that took part within the Swiss Design Mexico program. By a direct invitation from Beatrice Leanza—currently Director of the MUDAC in Lausanne—, she contributed with three entries to the 2030 journal, an initiative launched by Beijing’s International Centre for Creativity and Sustainable Development (ICCSD) under the auspices of UNESCO, by UNESCO Beijing.

In 2018, she enrolled at the Technische Universität Berlin, where she obtained a master’s degree in Urban Design with a Master Thesis titled “The Plantationocene in the Central Highlands of Mexico”, exploring maize as a non-human actor driving urbanization processes. During her studies she was also part of the BB2040 editorial team, a collaborative platform investigating infrastructures as levers for future transformations, and has worked as teaching assistant at Habitat Unit, TU Berlin.
 
Rosa currently coordinates the International Network of Innovation Laboratories at Bauhaus Earth, a think- and make-tank working towards the transformation of the built environment from a carbon emitter to a carbon storage.