How might the world look if the entire planet united to radically transition in the face of the climate crisis? Fremantle Design Week is proud to bring the evocative video works of Liam Young to Perth audiences for the first time.

Planet City and The Great Endeavor speculate on the impact of the Anthropocene at scale and where it might lead. Reassembling the familiar into unfamiliar worlds, these entrancing multi-sensory journeys are provocations that prompt us to think about our place and responsibilities within a vast yet finite ecosystem.

Planet City 

Planet City explores the productive potential of extreme densification, where the entire population of the earth retreats into one hyper-dense metropolis and surrenders the rest of the planet to a global wilderness.

In Planet City we see that climate change is no longer a technological problem, but rather an ideological one, rooted in culture and politics.

The Great Endeavour

In order to reach current climate targets, we cannot rely solely on slashing future emissions. The Great Endeavour visualises the construction of the largest engineering project in human history, designed to remove existing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it underground at gigatonne scales.

Featuring workwear created in collaboration with Hollywood costume designer Ane Crabtree and set to the score of a new planetary workers’ song composed by vocalist Lyra Pramuk, the film celebrates a new technological sublime, chronicling the coordinated action to decolonise the atmosphere in our last great act of planetary transformation.

Join us for Opening Night on Friday 18 October – RSVP is essential.

Late opening times have been programmed to allow visits after work – follow with dinner at one of the many great local restaurants.

Open times:
Opening Night, Friday 18 Oct, 6pm – 9pm
Saturday 19 Oct, 9:00am – 6:00pm
Sunday 20 Oct, 9:00am – 6:00pm
Monday 21 Oct, 12:00pm – 7:00pm
Tuesday 22 Oct, 12:00pm – 7:00pm
Wednesday 23 Oct, 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Thursday 24 Oct, 12:00pm – 7:00pm
Friday 25 Oct, 12:00pm – 9:00pm

SEE ALSO Liam Young’s keynote ‘Planetary Imaginaries’

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 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.