Living Cities: Architecture & Ecosystems

Don’t miss the first Architecture Street Talk of 2026 where we will be joined by co-founders of Feral Partnerships - Matthew Darmour-Paul and James Peplow Powell and Taylor Coyne.

The speakers will discuss their perspective on multi-species interactions within architecture and urban environments.

Curated and introduced by local designers Vanessa Li, Emily Malek and Caitlin Condon, this Architecture Street talk is presented in association with Inner West Council.

Doors open at 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start.

About the authors

Matthew Darmour-Paul

Matthew Darmour-Paul is a researcher and designer based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. His work explores architecture’s entanglement with political ecology, ruralisation, and the financialisation of nature. He is a PhD candidate at Australian National University and teaches architecture at University of Sydney.

Matthew is a co-founder of Feral Partnerships, a design collective that seeks to reclaim architectural knowledge in an age of rapid biodiversity loss and species extinction, reframing spatial practice toward multispecies flourishing.

Alongside his research and teaching, he works as a public artist and exhibition designer, supporting architects and social scientists across the UK, Europe, and Australia.

James Peplow Powell – Feral Partnerships

James is an architect and researcher whose work takes an ecological perspective on contemporary challenges, including climate breakdown. His design and research are oriented toward the more-than-human world, exploring how architecture can respond to environmental systems and multispecies relationships.

He studied Architecture at the University of Cambridge and the Royal College of Art, and previously worked as a specialist in sustainable and ecological design at Gort Scott Architects. In 2022, he established his own design practice.

James is also a co-founder of the design collective Feral Partnerships.

Taylor Coyne is a geographer and spatial practitioner whose work moves between ‘silenced infrastructure’ and living Country. His doctoral research, Swamp City, traces Sydney's stormwater systems through archival, sensory, and First Nations knowledge frameworks. He collaborates with Yerrabingin on Designing with Country across Sydney. He also teaches Landscape Architecture at UNSW in the School of Built Environment

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