Liam Young on Design for Speculation

Liam Young is a designer, director and BAFTA-nominated producer who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. His visionary films and speculative worlds are both extraordinary images of tomorrow and urgent examinations of the environmental questions facing us today. Liam runs the Masters in Fiction and Entertainment at SCI Arc in Los Angeles. He has published several books including the recent Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post Anthropocene and Planet City, a story of a fictional city for the entire population of the earth. — This talk was part of the ‘Removing Barriers, Beyond the Classroom’ series, for the students of Architecture Design Thesis at the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne. This series is intended to point toward life after uni, by introducing students to inspiring thinkers and do-ers who are working in different ways. Student curators: Rachel Soebekti, Saibal Dutta, Je Tan, Ione Cardoso, and Mansvi Jhaveri Advised by Rory Hyde Film by Kester Cheong Poster by Marc McHenry Thanks to Joanna Tidy