Liam Young’s Fremantle Design Week keynote presentation is not to be missed.

Following centuries of colonisation, globalisation, and never-ending economic extraction, we have remade the world from the scale of the cell to the tectonic plate. The dystopias of science fiction that previously read as speculative cautionary tales are now the stage sets of the every day as many of us live out our lives in a disaster film playing in real-time. In this seemingly futureless moment, the storytelling performance Planetary Imaginaries will take us on a sci-fi safari through a screenscape of alternative and hopeful worlds. Slipping between fiction and documentary, the journey will be both an extraordinary image of tomorrow and an urgent illumination of the environmental questions that are facing us today.

This event is part of the Fremantle Design Week Conversations Series.

Students and concession card holders can use code FDWCONCESSION for 10% off tickets.

Conversations Series presented by:

Liam Young

Liam Young is an LA-based 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. 

As a worldbuilder, he visualises the cities, spaces and props of our imaginary futures for the film and television industry, working in Hollywood and across the globe. His own acclaimed films have been widely exhibited and are in the collections of international museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, Cooper Hewitt, the V&A, the NGV, M Plus Hong Kong and MoMA. 

Liam has been acclaimed in both mainstream and design media including features with TED, Wired, New Scientist, Arte, Canal+, Time magazine and many more.

Liam’s film work is informed by his academic research and he has held guest professorships at Princeton University, MIT, and Cambridge. He now runs the ground-breaking Masters in Fiction and Entertainment at SCI Arc in Los Angeles.

Read more about Liam here.

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