Liam Young is a speculative architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures.
His work explores the increasingly blurred boundaries among film, fiction, design and storytelling with the goal of prototyping and imagining the future of the city.
His work explores the increasingly blurred boundaries among film, fiction, design and storytelling with the goal of prototyping and imagining the future of the city.
Liam Young is the founder of the think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today, a group whose work explores the possibilities of fantastic, speculative and imaginary urbanisms.
Young has developed a body of films that use new technologies of image making to tell new kinds of stories about the urban implications that these systems give rise to. Young has pioneered the use of drones and laser scanners in narrative film making. |
" Liam Young is doing when questioning the role of the technology, networks, and operating systems and their influence on the way we now shape and imagine our cities. The once traditional and now speculative architect is trying to explore new possible futures for the cities of tomorrow, and re-imagine them through the eye of the new networks and infrastructures. " (3PIGS)
Filmography
Chupan Chupai / 2013
New City / 2014 Where the City Can't See/ 2016 In the Robot Skies/ 2016 Consumed / 2016 Taobao Village / 2017 Publications and Exhibitions
BBC, NBC, Wired, Guardian, Time Magazine, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum |
Liam Young is the architect of the future, the new ideas for his urban landscape have won many awards, and he presents a genre of refreshing and revolutionary architecture