Speaker Profile–Paul Downton

Paul Downton is a prize winning architect and designer as well as an internationally acknowledged eco-city advocate and theorist. A registered architect, Downton is the principal Architect from Ecopolis, an Australian firm that specialized exclusively in ecological architecture and bio-urban design.

Downton has been involved in an advisory role on many urban design projects, including being a member of the Design Advisory Panel for Adelaide city. He is also a guest lecturer at a number of architecture, design and sustainability schools. Downton has a longstanding commitment to ecological architecture and urban design encompassing projects that range from the design of individual dwellings and community buildings to multi-unit dwellings and whole town plans. Recent projects that Downton has worked on include the Environmental Education Centre for Adelaide Zoo.

Downton’s talk at TEDxEQChCh will focus on Building Neighborhoods – a topic of real relevance in the re-imagining of Christchurch as we strive to find ways that return us to the strong and supportive communities that have been lost in the past decades.