Liam Young

Liam Young is a speculative architect and director who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is co-founder of the "Tomorrow's Thoughts Today", an urban futures think tank, exploring the local and global implications of new technologies and the "Unknown Fields", a nomadic research studio that travels on expeditions to chronicle these emerging conditions as they occur on the ground. His world-building for the film and television industries has been acclaimed in both mainstream and architectural media, including the BBC, NBC, Wired, the Guardian, Time Magazine and New Scientist. He is a BAFTA nominated producer and his work has been collected by institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum and MAAS in Sydney. He has published several books including the recent "Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post Anthropocene" and has taught internationally at the Architectural Association, Princeton University and now runs the ground-breaking "Masters in Fiction and Entertainment" programme at the Sci Arc in Los Angles. 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 visualising the future worlds he extrapolates from them.