IoA Sliver Lecture Series Architecture and Technology: Liam Young
Liam Young is an Australian born architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and
futures. He is founder of the think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today, a group whose work explores the possibilities of fantastic,
speculative and imaginary urbanisms.
Building his design fictions from the realities of present
Young also co runs the Unknown Fields Division, a nomadic research studio that travels on location shoots and expeditions
to the ends of the earth to document emerging trends and uncover the weak signals of possible futures. He has been acclaimed
in both mainstream and architectural media, including the BBC, NBC, Wired, Guardian, Time Magazine, and Dazed and Confused,
is a BAFTA nominated producer and his work has been collected by institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Victoria and Albert Museum. He has taught internationally including the Architectural Association and Princeton University
and now runs an MA in Fiction and Entertainment at SCI-Arc. Liam manages his time between exploring distant landscapes and
visualising the fictional worlds he extrapolates from them.
