City Everywhere: a Storytelling Tour through the Landscapes of Technology, a lecture by Liam Young

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 6:30 pm - 6:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Liam Young is a speculative architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is cofounder of Tomorrows Thoughts Today, an urban futures think tank, exploring the local and global implications of new technologies and Unknown Fields, a nomadic research studio that travels on expeditions to chronicle these emerging conditions as they occur on the ground. Young has lectured and exhibited internationally, and he has taught internationally at the Architectural Association, Princeton University and now runs the ground breaking MA in Fiction and Entertainment at Sci Arc in Los Angles. 

City Everywhere: A Storytelling Tour Through the Landscapes of Technology. Join speculative architect Liam young and an all-seeing smart city operating system, to explore City Everywhere, a quasi-fictional city of the near future. Seen through the eyes of the machines we are now designing our cities for you will visit the autonomous infrastructures, industrial territories and sacrificial landscapes that span from the robot ports on the Siberian coastline to the massive mining excavations carved from the middle of Australia where our gadgets begin their lives.

Liam's narrative approach sits between documentary and fiction as he focuses on projects that aim to reveal the invisible connections and systems that make the modern world work. Liam now manages his time between exploring distant landscapes and prototyping the future worlds he extrapolates from them.

View the Liam Young lecture on YouTube