Designing Our Future through Speculative Architecture

14:45 - 15:15

Main Stage / Rooftop Level

According to the BBC, the visionary architect and filmmaker behind Planet City is “the man who is designing our future”. With his think tank, Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, he anticipates the impact of technology, while his films explore great social and environmental topics. Ever imagined one city for the whole of humanity? He did — and designed it.

Los Angeles

Liam Young Speculative Architect / Director

Tomorrow's Thoughts Today

Liam Young is a designer, director, and BAFTA-nominated producer who operates in the spaces between design, fiction, and futures. As a worldbuilder, he visualizes the cities, spaces, and props of our imaginary futures for the film, television, and game industries, including work on the series adaptation of GATTACA and as a visual consultant on Apple's Swan Song.

His films, designs, and costumes have been collected internationally by major institutions such as the MoMA in New York, the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. In parallel to his work in entertainment, he is a highly sought-after futurist consultant and currently runs the groundbreaking Masters in Fiction and Entertainment at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.

Among his most acclaimed visionary works is Planet City, a speculative design project (also a book and a viral TED talk) exploring a single hyper-dense metropolis built to house the entire population of the earth, surrendering the rest of the globe to a massive wilderness.

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