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.
