Rosina Baumann, known to everyone as Rosie, is a proud Butchulla woman and First Nations Creative Consultant at YarnnUp. She leads our Connecting with Country service across residential, public space and mixed use projects, preparing engagement reports, cultural design advice and recommendations that help clients move from good intention to genuine, Country led outcomes.
Rosie’s practice sits where architecture, culture and community meet. She works closely with Traditional Custodians and local Aboriginal communities to make sure the knowledge shared with a project is understood, respected and carried through to the built result. That work asks for both technical fluency and cultural care, and Rosie brings both. Alongside Connecting with Country, she supports our Branding and Design and First Nations Art services, contributing concept development and creative direction across our wider creative portfolio.
Before joining YarnnUp, Rosie was an Indigenous Design Integration Specialist at Balarinji, where she led Connecting with Country frameworks and strategies for major infrastructure projects and facilitated community engagement with Traditional Custodians and Aboriginal communities. Her earlier experience includes an internship with The Fulcrum Agency and a series of summer placements with Cox Architecture, giving her grounding in commercial architectural practice that continues to inform how she works with design teams today.
Rosie holds a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from the University of New South Wales, where she also served as Indigenous Officer on the Arc Student Representative Council and was twice awarded the Department of Planning and Environment Indigenous Scholarship. Her advocacy for First Nations students during her studies reflects the same commitment to community that shapes her professional practice.
At YarnnUp, Rosie is helping to grow one of the most meaningful areas of our work. Connecting with Country is where reconciliation becomes physical and permanent, written into the places that will outlast all of us. Through her work, Rosie ensures those places are shaped by the communities whose Country they sit on, and that First Nations design knowledge is treated as expertise rather than decoration.