Multispecies Cohabitation

Floating agents of the game experience

The Architecture of Multispecies Cohabitation, Feral Partnerships research collective

The Architecture of Multispecies Cohabitation presents ongoing research by Feral Partnerships (Beth Fisher Levine , Matthew Darmour-Paul, James Powell, Enrico Brondelli di Brondello, Francesca Rausa) of surprising and hopeful stories of human and other-than-human interdependence, facilitated by the architectures that host them. In the context of anthropogenic global warming and the accelerating extinction of species, the exhibition draws from historical precedents in order to inspire new possibilities for building worlds with the other-than-human in mind.

Architects, developers and planners find themselves ever more at the intersection of contested natures. The politics of crisis and the (many) anthropocene(s) have intensified the responsibilities of design and planning towards mitigating climate change and protecting biodiversity. Yet for all the successful disciplinary rallying behind technological solutions to climate breakdown - such as low-carbon building services or clean energy consumption - architecture as a profession has yet to meaningfully address its ongoing role in biodiversity loss.