Liam Young: Tomorrows Thoughts Today & Unknown Fields Division
Wednesday, Oct 28, 20155:03 AMEDT
| SCI-Arc, W.M. Keck Lecture Hall Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CARelated
Wed, Oct 28, 7pm W.M. Keck Lecture Hall Our luminous technologies cast shadows that stretch across the planet. Join speculative architect Liam young and a fictional Kim Kardashian as they go on a storytelling walking tour through the flickering screen and beyond the fog of the cloud, to explore City Everywhere, a fictional city of the near future, extrapolated from the fears and wonders of an increasingly complex present . With spoken word and a rapid fire assault of film, animation and live sound mixing Liam and Kim journey to a place found somewhere between the real and the imagined, stitched together from fragments of distant landscapes, extreme mega cities and designed urban fictions. Liam Young is an 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. He tells stories about the city using fiction, film and performance as imaginative tools to explore the implications and consequences of new technologies and ecological conditions. 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, The Guardian, Time Magazine, and Dazed and Confused. Young manages his time between exploring distant landscapes and visualising the fictional worlds he extrapolates from them. http://sciarc.edu/lectures.php?id=2420
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