Liam Young

Liam Young is a speculative architect and director who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures, and was described by the BBC as “the man designing our futures”. His visionary films and speculative worlds are both extraordinary images of tomorrow and urgent examinations of the environmental issues facing us today. His films have earned him a BAFTA nomination and have premiered on platforms ranging from Channel 4, TED, SxSW, the New York Metropolitan Museum and The Royal Academy to the BBC and the Guardian. His work has been collected internationally by museums such as MOMA, the Met, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria and M Plus Hong Kong and has been acclaimed in both mainstream and design media including features with Wired, New Scientist, Arte, Canal+, Time magazine and many more. Young, whose fictional work is informed by his academic research, has held guest professorships at Princeton University, MIT and Cambridge, and now runs the groundbreaking Masters in Fiction and Entertainment at SCI Arc in Los Angeles. He has published several books including the recent Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post Anthropocene and Planet City, a story of a fictional city for the entire population of the earth.

https://liamyoung.org

The Great Endeavour, Planet City and the Return of Global Wilderness